LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCER.A. 297 



Australia. 

 58. Teras responsana. 



Mas. Pallidissime cervina; palpi sat graciles, caput vix super- 

 antes; thorax cervino fascia tus ; alee anticce macula costali 

 basali, lituris quatuor posticis fasciaque exteriore obliquafer- 

 rugineis, punctis exterioribus transversis nigricantibus. 



Male. Very pale fawn -colour. Palpi porrect, rather slender, 

 hardly extending beyond the head ; third joint extremely small. 



! Antennae minutely pubescent. Thorax with a dark fawn -coloured 

 band. Fore wings rectangular at the tips, with a ferruginous spot 

 near the base of the costa, and with four ferruginous marks along 



> the basal part of the interior border ; an exterior oblique ferruginous 

 band, which is concise and slightly undulating on the inner side 

 and diffuse on the outer side ; several transversely elongated blackish 

 points towards the exterior border; costa almost straight; exterior 



: border slightly convex, moderately oblique. Hind wings cinereous- 

 brown ; fringe pale cinereous; under side pale cinereous, trans- 



i versely speckled with brown. Length of the body 5 ? lines ; of the 



i wings 14 lines. 



] a. Australia. Presented by Major-Gen. Hardwicke. 



59. Teras postyittana. 



Foem. Flavescens ; abdomen flavescente-cinereum 9 alee anticce 

 acutce, punctis nonnullis vittaque postica extus dilatata rufes- 

 centibus ; posticce cinerea:. 



Female. Yellowish, yellowish cinereous beneath. Palpi por- 

 rect, as long as the breadth of the head ; second joint fringed 

 above; third conical, very minute, not more than one-sixth of the 

 length of the second. Abdomen yellowish cinereous. Fore wings 

 acute, with several reddish points and with a reddish stripe ; the 

 I latter extends along the interior border, and is dilated towards the 

 exterior border, which it occupies to the tip ; costa convex for half 

 > the length from the base; exterior border oblique hindward. Hind 

 I wings cinereous. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 

 11 lines. 



a, Sydney. From Mr. Lambert's collection. 



