STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 
a large dorsal Y-shaped blackish patch. Abdomen blackish ; base, 
terminal segments, and under-surface grey; third and fourth 
segments in $ narrowly whitish at base. Legs grey ; tarsi blackish. 
Forewings elongate, costa rather strongly arched, apex rounded, 
termen nearly straight, strongly oblique ; whitish densely irrorated 
with dark-fuscous ; several dark-fuscous suffused patches in disc 
before and beyond middle ; a series of blackish dots on veins in 
costal part of disc ; an oblique black stripe, with surrounding black 
reticulation, from apex; cilia very short, black, apices white. 
Hindwings with termen slightly sinuate in (J, more rounded in 9 ; 
blackish; in $ grey along termen and terminal ends of veins; 
cilia as forewings. 
Type in Coll. Turner. 
N.A. Port Darwin, iu November and December ; three speci- 
mens received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 
XYLEUTES STENOPTILA n. sp. 
[o-Tei/o7nr<Ao5, narrow-winged. ] 
(J. 122 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish intimately 
mixed with fuscous so as to appear grey. Palpi anteriorly whitish, 
posteriorly dark-fuscous. Antennae whitish, pectinations dark- 
fuscous. Legs grey, anterior pair more whitish. Forewings narrow- 
elongate, costa first straight then moderately arched, apex round- 
pointed, termen straight, very oblique, dorsum strongly sinuate; 
whitish finely irrorated with fuscous-grey; suffused darker markings ; 
a blotch on costa at f and another on middle, ill-defined, connected 
in disc ; a broad streak from beneath apex to above dorsum, narrower 
at extremities ; cilia grey- whitish. Hindwings with termen nearly 
straight ; grey ; base of costa whitish ; base, dorsal area, and a band 
along termen irrorated with whitish ; cilia as forewings. 
Type in Coll. Turner. 
N.Q. Stannary Hills ; one specimen received from Dr. T. 
Bancroft. 
XYLEUTES METHYCHROA n. sp. 
[fieOyXpoos, wine-tinged.] 
$ 64 mm., 9 96 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and 
abdomen grey ; thorax in $ with a blackish V-shaped mark, its 
