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Descriptions of Ni£.^^r Genera and Species 

 OF Australian Lepidoptera. 



By Oswald B. Lower, F.E.S,. Lond.. &c. 



[Eead July 1, 1902.] 



BOMBYCINA. 

 HEPIALID.^. 



HePIALUS OMBRALOMA, 11. sp. 



Male, 50 miu. Head, palpi, thorax, legs and abdomen fus- 

 cous, anterior half of abdomen clothed with biigiit orange-red 

 hairs above. Antennae ochreous. Fore wings elon:>a to-trian- 

 gular, costa sinuate, posteriorly moderately arched, ttrmeii 

 obliquely rounded continuously with inner mar^^in , dark 

 ochreous-fuscous, markings not traceable ; cilia dark fuscous.. 

 Hindwings with termeii rounded ; reddish-orange ; a dark 

 fuscous band along termen, broad at ajpex, gradually attenuated 

 to beyond middle, where it terminates ; cilia dark fuscous, be- 

 coming reddish-orange along inner margin and anal angle. 

 Underside of both wings reddish-orange; forewings w4th a 

 broad dark fuscous band along termen ; hindwings with similar 

 band, but shar,ply interrupted in middle by ground color. 



Port Lincoln, South Australia ; one specimen {CoU. Lydl). 



ARCTIAD^. 



COMARCHIS EPIGYPSA, n. Sp. 



Female, 22 mm. Head and thorax snow-white, face 

 ochreous, with a black bar above middle, thorax with a median 

 fuscous spot. Antennae and palpi fuscous, palpi yellowish ex- 

 ternally. Legs and abdomen orange, anterior legs infuscated. 

 Forewings elongate-triangular, termen obliquely rounded; 

 snow-white, markings fuscous; a very short oblique streak at 

 base ; a moderate large flattened triangular costal patch, ex- 

 tending from near base to beyond middle, from lower edge 

 of which proceeds a double angulated line to above inner- 

 margin at one-third; a moderately large suffused bbtch imme- 

 diately beyond, resting on innermargin and reaching half across 

 wing ; a broad irregular patch along termen, constricted towards 

 costa and separated on lower half from preceding patch by a 



