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New AUSTRALIAN Lepidoptera of the Families 



NOCTUID>E AND PYRALID^E. 



By A. Jefferis Turner, M.D., F.E.S., 

 Brisbane. 



[Read April 7, 1908.] 



Family NOCTUID^. 



Subfamily AGARISTIN^. 



Argyrolepidia .ethriaSj n. sp. 



(JiJtkria, the sky.) 



c? , 39 mm. Head blackish, a pair of spots on crown 

 and sides of face yellowish-white. Palpi yellowish-white, 

 terminal joint, and a spot on external surface of second joint 

 before apex, blackish. Antennae blackish. Thorax blackish 

 with some whitish scales ; posterior edge and two longitudinal 

 lines on patagia yellowish-white. Abdomen grey ; tuft, ex- 

 cept on dorsum, and under-surface orange. Legs blackish, 

 irrorated, and tarsi annulated with white ; anterior coxge yel- 

 lowish-white ; middle tibiae orange on external surface. Fore- 

 wings triangular, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, ter- 

 men bowed, slightly oblique; blackish; basal area strigu- 

 lated and spotted with greenish-white ; a squarish greenish- 

 white spot on dorsum before middle ; succeeded by a small 

 spot, constricted in middle, beyond mid-dorsum ; a small 

 bluish-white spot in cell ; an outwardly-oblique yellowish- 

 white spot from costa beyond middle, constricted beneath 

 costa ; beyond and beneath this a larger spot of the same 

 colour, divided posteriorly into three obtuse t-eeth ; a sub- 

 terminal series of pale-blue spots ; cilia blackish, on apex and 

 tornus white. Hindwings with termen rounded, irregularly 

 dentate ; blackish ; a large triangular basal area pale metallic 

 blue ; cilia white. 



This attractive species is nearest .4. novcE-hihernicE, Bdv. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q., Cape York ; one specimen. 



Section AGROTIN.^. 

 Proteuxoa loxosema, n. sp. 

 (Loxosemos, obliquely marked.) 

 c^ 9 5 35-40 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark-reddish- 

 brown. Antennae fuscous, towards bases whitish : in cS 

 minutely ciliat-ed (i) with slightly longer bristles. Abdomen 

 pale fuscous. Legs grey, mixed with whitish and brownish. 



