1662 CATALOGUE OF 



line, which is interrupted by some black points; a middle point and 

 marginal points black, very minute. Fore wings acuie; an ante- 

 medial uearly straight brownish line with three black points; exte- 

 rior border convex, slightly oblique. Hind win^s beneath with a 

 broad blackish deeply undulating postmedial line; a blackish sub- 

 marginal line, which is almost obsolete, except the middle part. 

 Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



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



Tephrina abidaria. 



Foem. Cinerea, nigro compersa ; caput antice atrum ; palpi atri, 

 porrecti, lati, caput longe superantes, articulo So brevissimo ; 

 aim punctis marginalibus nigris ; antica tinea antemedia 

 punctulari, annulo parvo fasciaque postmedia undulata nigri- 

 cantibus ; postica puncto medio lineaque postmedia subundu- 

 lata nigricantibus. 



Female. Cinereous, minutely black-speckled. Head deep 

 black in front. Palpi deep black, ponect, broad, extending much 

 beyond the head, shorter than the breadth of the latter ; third joint 

 very short. Antennae and legs slender. Abdomen much shorter 

 than the interior border of the hind wings. Wings broad ; marginal 

 points black. Fore wings acute; an antemedial line of blackish 

 points; a small blackish ringlet in the disk; a postmedial undu- 

 lating blackish band, which is mostly obsolete near the costa ; exte- 

 rior border convex, slightly oblique. Hind wings with a blackish 

 point in the disk, and with a blackish slightly undulating postmedial 

 line, which is obsolete in front. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the 

 wings 15 lines. 



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



Genus LEIODES, C. L. H. xxiii. 978. 

 Leiodes benesignata. 

 benesignata, Bell, de la Chav. A. S. E. F. 3rd Ser. i. 

 Corsica. 



