LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1591 



fuscescente guttata ; anticce linea antemedia subobsoleta 

 lineaque postmedia fascis; postica? linea antemedia fusca 

 diffusa. 



Female. Pale cinereous, brown-speckled. Palpi obliquely 

 ascending-, not rising so high as the vertex; third joint very minute. 

 Wings with a black point in the disk and with a black postmedial 

 incomplete dentate line; a diffuse subtnarginal brown band including 

 a zigzag pale cinereous line; marginal lunules black; fringe with 

 brownish dots; exterior border nut scalloped] under side with a 

 black dot and with a brown subtnarginal band. Fore wings with an 

 almost obsolete brown line near the base and with anotber brown 

 line on the outer side of the black point. Hind wings with a diffuse 

 brown line on the inner side of the point. Length of the body 

 5 lines; of the wings 13 lines. 



Flores. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Tephrosia extern aria. 



Foem. Cinerea; caput antice albidum, fusco faiciatum ; thorax 

 fusco trifasciatus ; abdominis tegmenta fusco fasciuta ; alee 

 fusco strigatce, linea antemedia nigra laliuscu/a, lunula atra, 

 linea postmedia undulata e punctis nigris, fascia submarginali 

 nigra indeterminate, lunulis marginalibus nigris ; anticce 

 plaga postica nigricante. 



Female. Cinereous, paler beneath. Head in front whitish, 

 with a brown band. Palpi porrect, slender, hardly extending beyond 

 the head; third joint extremely small. Thorax with three brown 

 bands. Abdomeu with a brown band on the hind border of each 

 segment. Wings thickly and transversely brown-streaked; a black 

 rather broad antemedia! line; an undulating postmedial line com- 

 posed of black points; a black very incomplete and irregular sub- 

 marginal band; a deep black luuule in the disk; marginal lunules 

 black; under side almost without markings, except a blackish 

 lunule. Fore wings hardly acute; a blackish patch on the interior 

 border between the antemedial line and the postmedial line; exterior 

 border slightly convex, moderately oblique. Length of the body 

 5 lines; of" the wings 15 lines. 



a. Moreton Bay. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



Tephrosia breviaria. 



Mas. Fusca ; palpi robusti, oblique ascendentes, articulo So parvo ; 

 antenna late pectinatce, apices versus simplices ; tibia postica 



