LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCEEA. 713 



Male. Deep brick-red, whitish beneath. Palpi pale cinereous ; 

 second joint mostly on the outer side. Antennae brown. Abdomen 

 and hind wings cinereous-brown. Fore wings minutely speckled 

 with black, with three black transverse incomplete dentate 

 lines ; first line very near the base ; second before the middle ; 

 third beyond the middle, on the outer side of a broad transverse 

 black streak ; marginal points black ; under side brown, with a 

 blackish point in the disk. Hind wings whitish beneath, with a 

 blackish spot in the disk and a broad blackish marginal band, 

 Length of the body 9 lines; of the wings 18 lines. 



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



Elegarda summa. 



Mas. Saturate rufo-cervina ; caput antice albidum ; palpi albidi, 

 porrecti, extus rufescentes, articulo So lanceolato ; antenna 

 pectinata, apice simplices ; abdomen albidum ; aloe anticce 

 lata, cervince, apud costam exparte cinerascentes, orbiculari et 

 reniformi nigricantibus, gutta postica nigricante, lineis 

 duabus exterioribus obscure cervinis, lunulis marginalibus 

 fuscis ; postica cenece, basi cinerea. 



Male. Fawn-colour, whitish beneath. Head and thorax 

 deep reddish fawn-colour, the former whitish in front. Palpi whitish, 

 porrect, extending much beyond the] head; first and second joints 

 reddish on the outer side, except at the tips ; third lanceolate, more 

 than half the length of the second. Antenna? moderately pectinated, 

 except at the tips. Abdomen whitish. Legs most reddish above ; 

 femora very pilose ; knees and tips of the tibiae blackish ; tarsi 

 spinose, their joints with whitish tips. Wings broad. Fore wings 

 interruptedly pale cinereous along the costa; orbicular and reniform 

 marks blackish, the former small, the latter narrow ; a blackish dot 

 in the disk behind the orbicular ; two denticulated lines, a little 

 darker than the ground hue, between the reniform mark and the 

 exterior border ; marginal luuules brown ; exterior border hardly 

 oblique. Hind wings aeneous, cinereous towards the base ; under 

 side whitish, with a blackish lunule and a blackish marginal band 

 which is narrower towards the interior augle. Length of the body 

 8 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



Nearly allied to E. dorsicinis, from which it especially differs in 

 the colour of the thorax. 



a. Tasmania. From the Entomological Society's collection. 



