Mr. A. G. Butler on Melbourne Lepidoptera. 89 



hair above and with white hair below, amongst which is a 

 long flattened digitate whitish process, with a black central 

 bar ; venter white. Expanse of wings 73 millira. 



A male. 



This insect came in such a greasy condition that the colo- 

 ration was entirely altered ; after soaking for five minutes in 

 benzole the sides and under surface of the body changed from 

 stramineous to white. 



Apamiidse. 

 17, Mamestra confandens^ Walk. (363). 



One example. 



This species was described by Walker in one of his supple- 

 mentary papers under the title of " Characters of undescribed 

 Lepidoptera Heterocera." 



18. Miana Lucasii^ sp. n. (330). 



Whity brown, sericeous : wings with a slender black mar- 

 ginal line, interrupted at the extremities of the veins : pri- 

 maries clouded with greyish brown ; costal border whitish to 

 apical fifth, but crossed by black lines; submedian vein, 

 median, and its first two branches white ; a rust-red stripe 

 running longitudinally through the interno-median area j 

 external border snow-white, with deeply dentate-sinuate 

 internal edge ; fringe pale red-brown ; orbicular spot small, 

 rust-red, with black margin ; reniform spot with its lower 

 half prolonged, dark brown, with blackish-edged orange inner 

 border and snow-white >-shaped outer border, below the 

 inferior extremity of which is a small white dot ; a slightly 

 irregular denticulated externally buff-bordered black line 

 across the disk, and three equidistant zigzag black lines be- 

 tween the end of the cell and the base : secondaries sordid 

 white, with snow-white fringe ; an oblique dusky discocel- 

 lular dash, beyond which the wing is crossed by an indistinct 

 denticulated brownish line, followed almost immediately by a 

 similarly-coloured stripe : body whity brown, the thorax 

 white, with pale-brown margins to the tegulai and collar, a 

 blackish spot on the middle of the frons. Wings below 

 shining white, with a slight brassy tint j the siirface, particu- 

 larly of the secondaries, irrorated with brown ; blackish disco- 

 cellular spots; a slender interrupted marginal brown line: 

 primaries with brown-tipped fringe : secondaries with a trans- 

 verse series of little black dashes on the veins, followed by a 

 brownish undulated submarginal stripe : body below white. 

 Expanse of wings 33 millim. 



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