38 Jefferis Turner: 



median line ochreous. Underside with bases of wings more or less 

 suffused with ochreous in ^ 



Near R. horcialis (horcinsalis) , Wlk. 



N.A., Port Darwin, in January; four specimens received from Mr, 

 G. F. Hill and Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Rapakna ciiocopnARA, n. sp. 



2 18 mm. Head yellow. Palpi long, recurved; second joint 

 stout, smooth-scaled; terminal joint as long as second, slender, acute; 

 yellow with a few purplish scales. Antennae fuscous, towards base 

 ochreous-tinged. Thorax yellow. Abdomen and legs ochreous-grey, 

 Forewings triangular, copta nearly straight, apex round-pointed, 

 termen very slightly bowed, scarcely oblique, crenulate; orange- 

 yellow, with reddish or purplish markings; a broad transverse line, its 

 centre leaden-fuscous, at }. with a slight outward tooth below 

 middle; a similar costal line from base to first line; a sub-basal spot; 

 a leaden-fuscous dot surrounded by reddish scales on mid-costa; a 

 minute, fuscous median discal dot; second line at §, similar to first, 

 wavy; some reddish irroration between second line and termen; cilia 

 purple-grey, at apex yellow. Hindwings like forewings, but without 

 first line; second line not reaching costa. 



Near R. transversa, Moore. 



N.A., Port Darwin, in January. N.Q., Chillagoe, in March. Two 

 specimens received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Anomis definata, 



Anomis definata, Luc, P.L.S., N.S.W., 1893, p. 146. 

 CosmopMla psamathodes, Turn., P.L.S., N.S.W., 1902, p. 108. 

 N.Q., Cairns, Innisfail, Q., Nambour, Stradbroke I. 



Fam. SPHINGIDAE. 



_HOPLIOCNEME MARMORATA. 



Sphinx marmorata, Luc, " Queenslander," May, 1891, and 

 P.L.S., N.S.W., 1891, p. 278. 



2 50-60 mm. Head and palpi fuscous, mixed with whitish, appear- 

 ing grey. Antennae whitish. Thorax fuscous, mixed with whitish, 

 appearing grey; apices of tegulae sometimes whitish-ochreous. Abdo- 

 men blackish on dorsum, with lateral series of large oblong whitish- 

 ochreous spots, and a central series of narrow whitish marks on apices 

 of segments; two apical segments fuscous irrorated with whitish; 

 underside mostly whitish. Legs fuscous, with whitish irroation. 

 Forewings narrowly triangular, costa straight to f, thence arched, 

 apex pointed, termen slightly bowed, oblique; fuscous densely irro- 

 rated, with whitish, appearing grey; an ill-defined, dark-fuscous mark 

 on costa at ^; an ill-defined, oblique, whitish shade from apex to- 

 wards mid-dorsum, but lost in disc; beyond this a series of dark- 

 fuscous, longitudinal, interneural streaks; veins towards termen nar- 

 rowly fuscous; cilia whitish, interrupted with fuscous on veins. 



