1878.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON NEW LEPIDOPTERA. 383 



Phaos, Walker. 



5. Phaos vigens, n. sp. 



Primaries dark chocolate- brown with cream-coloured margius ; a 

 discoidal streak broken into three nearly equal spots, an apical 

 costal spot, and an angulated stripe beyond the middle (its inferior 

 extremity terminating at the centre of the interno-median interspace 

 in an acute spur) cream-coloured : secondaries ochreous, whitish 

 upon costa, rosy at abdominal border ; a black discocellular spot and 

 a broad regular external black border ; fringe cream-coloured : head 

 blackish, with cream-coloured frons, collar pale ochreous; tegulae 

 blackish-brown fringed with pale ochreous ; thorax blackish ; abdo- 

 men rose-red, with a dorsal row of black dots ; anus ochreous ; 

 wings below with all the paler areas broader and pale clear ochreous ; 

 body below pale ochreous, varied with blackish ; anterior femora 

 above carmine. Expanse 1 inch 4 lines. Tasmania. 



We have four examples of this species, which Walker confounded 

 with his P. fascimda, as he did also the four following. 



6. Phaos nigriceps, n. sp. 



c? . Allied to the preceding ; primaries black-brown, the base, a 

 furcate streak from the base, the apical two-thirds of costal margin, 

 a triangulated discal stripe, an interrupted submarginal line, and the 

 fringe cream-coloured ; base of costa with a tuft of rosy hairs ; 

 secondaries rosy, with black discocellular spot, a broad black ex- 

 ternal border and ochreous fringe ; head and thorax black, collar 

 and anterior margins of tegulae dull buff; abdomen rose-red, with 

 transverse dorsal black bars and lateral black spots : under surface 

 with the pale portions buff; anterior femora above carmine. Ex- 

 panse 1 inch 6 lines. 



$ . Basal furca of primaries only represented by a basal dash and 

 a spot in the cell, discal stripe and submarginal line much more 

 slender ; pale portions below rosy. Expanse 1 inch 4 lines. 



S . Victoria (Bakewell) ; Sydney (Doubleday). 

 Readily distinguished from P. fascinula by its black head ; in 

 marking it is nearer to P. vigens. 



7. Phaos notatum, n. sp. 



£ . Primaries above dark chocolate-brown ; a longitudinal dash 

 from the base to near the middle of the cell, a broad streak from the 

 base to the centre of the inner margin, a subquadrate spot at the 

 middle of the costal margin, a spot below the latter intersected by 

 the origins of the median branches, a curved macular discal stripe, 

 the apical portion of costal margin, the fringe, and a submarginal 

 series of spots (of which the first, second, and fifth are small, the 

 others elongated and extended to the margin) cream-coloured : 

 secondaries rosy with whitish costal area ; a large black discocellular 

 spot ; a broad irregular black submarginal belt ; thorax black, head, 

 collar, and borders of tegulae clothed densely with testaceous hair : 

 body bright rose-red, with black dorsal and lateral spots : under 



