NEw AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 
By Oswatp Lower, F.E.S., &e. 
[Read June 2, 1896.] 
GEOMETRINA. 
HYDRIOMENID. 
ASTHENA PORPHYRETICA, N. Sp. 
Female, 22 mm. Head, thorax, antennz, and abdomen ochreous 
grey. Abdomen with pairs of black spots on base of anterior 
segments ; three posterior segments with one large spot on each. 
Forewings triangular, hindmargin bowed, oblique ; ochreous grey, 
with dull purplish markings ; numerous transverse narrow wavy 
lines, the confluence of which form a moderately broad band from 
beyond middle of costa to beyond middle of inner-margin ; a 
black discal dot before this above middle; lines towards hind- 
margin more dense, and forming a suffused band; a hindmarginal 
row of black dots at extremities of veins; cilia ochreous grey. 
Hindwings with color and markings as in forewings, cilia as in 
forewings. 
Two specimens in August at Rockhampton, Queensland. 
Nearest «ylocyma, Meyr. 
BOMBYCINA. 
LIMACODID2. 
DoRATIPHORA EUCHRYSA, 0. Sp. 
Female, 34mm. Head, thorax, palpi, legs, and antenne golden 
rufous ; thorax more reddish, patagia reddish fuscous, abdomen 
reddish fuscous. Forewings moderately dilated, costa nearly 
straight, apex rounded, hindmargin obliquely rounded ; bright 
brassy yellow; costal edge narrowly fuscous; a fuscous band 
starting from base and continued along inner-margin right round 
hindmargin to apex ; a narrow, hardly waved line from costa just 
before apex to middle of inner-margin ; cilia dark fuscous. Hind- 
wings pale ochreous-reddish, with a darker line at base; cilia 
pale reddish-ochreous. 
A very striking species, not like any other species known to 
me. Two specimens, in November, received from Mr. Rowland 
Turner, of Mackay, Queensland. 
