210 LYMANTRIID^:. 



983. Darala nicothoe. 



Bombyx nicothoe. Boisd. : Voy. de 1'Astrolabe, i. p. 226 (1832). 

 Darala adusta. Walker : iv. 897 (1855). 



Type (adusta). Van Diemen's Land, in B. M. 



a. Van Diemen's Land (6). b. New Holland (3). 



984. Darala elizabetha. 



Odonestis elizabetha. -White : App. Capt. Grey's Journ. Exped. Discov. 



Austral., p. 478 (1841). 

 Darala elizabetha. Walker: iv. 893 (1855). 



a. King George's Sound. 



985. Darala uniformis : n. sp. 



$ Of a uniform reddish fawn colour, shafts of the antennas yejlowish, 

 plumes brown, fore-wings and body slightly darker than the hind- 

 wings. Fore-wings with a white spot in the middle of the cell and 

 another similar spot at the end. Underside with a white dot at end 

 of cell of fore-wings and a larger one at the end of cell in hind- 

 wings, otherwise the wings and body above and below are without 

 markings. 



Expanse of wings I ^ inches. 

 a. Queensland (type). 



Allied to D. elizabetha, similar in shape, but that species has seg- 

 mental brown bands on the abdomen and a discal line of brown dots 

 across both wings. 



986. Darala minuta : n. sp. 



3 Reddish fawn colour, shafts of the antennae pale, plumes brownish, 

 body above and below darker than the wings, wings slightly darker 

 towards the base. Fore-wings with a small brown spot at the end 

 of the cell, and a nearly obsolete pale brown transverse discal line. 

 Hind-wings with a faint brown spot at the end of the cell ; no other 

 markings. 



Expanse of wings l^ inches. 

 a. New South Wales (type). b. Australia. 



GENUS COLUSSA. Walker: xxi. 288 (1860). 



987. Colussa varia. 



Darala varia. Walker: iv. 890 (1855) <J. 

 Colussa odenestaria. Walker: xxi. 288 (1860) ?. 



Type. New Holland, in B. M. 



Type (odenestaria). Australia, in B. M. 



a. Australia (2). b. Moreton Bay (3). c. New South 



Wales (2). d. New South Wales, var. I. e. New South 



Wales, var. 2. f. Port Stephenson, var. 3. 



