60 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND. 
46. Xyleutes phaeocosma Turn. 
Ann. Q. Mus. x, p.130 ; Obthr. Lep. Comp, xi, f. 16-19. 
North Australia: Darwin. North Queensland-. Cairns. 
47. Xyleutes platyphaea n.sp. 
7r\cLTV(j)aios , broadly fuscous. 
9 , 134-142 mm. Head fuscous. Palpi 1 ; dark fuscous ; lower 
surface wbitisb. Antennae grey. Thorax fuscous, lateral and posterior 
margins grey. Abdomen fuscous; terminal segments grey. Legs grey; 
tarsi fuscous with whitish rings. Forewings moderately broad, costa 
gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen nearly straight, oblique ; grey 
with dark fuscous markings and strigulae ; costal edge rather closely 
strigulated; an irregular blotch on base of costa; an oblique wedge, 
narrow on costa at one-fourth, broadening to beneath middle of disc, 
there deflected and forming a narrower irregular wedge to apex ; dorsal 
area to middle with long strigulae; terminal area finely reticulated; a 
terminal series of dots on veins; cilia white, on dots fuscous. Hind- 
wings with termen rounded ; pale fuscous ; terminal dots and cilia as 
for forewings. 
Queensland: Stanthorpe in December; two specimens (W. B. 
Barnard). Type in Queensland Museum. 
48. Xyleutes duponcheli Newm. 
Tr. E.S. (2), iii, p. 282. tenebrifer Wlk. xxxii, p. 585; Obthr. Lep. 
Comp, xi, f. 35-37. alboatra Wlk. xxxii, p. 589. 
$ , 92 mm. $ , 116-160 mm. Head fuscous-brown. Palpi 1, ascend- 
ing ; fuscous-brown. Thorax fuscous-brown with a slender inverted 
blackish U-mark. Abdomen in male whitish, in female brown, in both 
sexes fuscous towards apex. Legs fuscous-brown; tarsi dark fuscous. 
Forewings rather narrow, costa slightly arched, apex round-pointed, 
termen slightly rounded, strongly oblique ; in male pale grey, in female 
darker, in both closely strigulated and towards termen reticulated with 
blackish; sometimes a suffused darker area beneath two-thirds costa, 
and another above dorsum about middle ; usually an oblique subterminal 
series of oblong dark spots; cilia brownish. Hindwings with termen 
slightly rounded; in male white strigulated on terminal edge, cilia 
fuscous; in female reddish-brown with pale fuscous strigulae, cilia, 
brownish, apices partly white. 
North Queensland : Cooktown ; Townsville ; Mackay. Queensland : 
Yeppoon; Brisbane, Mt, Tamborine. North-West Australia: Broome. 
49. Xyleutes sordida Roths. 
Novit. Zool. 1891, p. 601. turneriana Obthr. Lep. Comp, xl, p. 52, f.23-25, 
38, 39. columbine Luc. Proc. Roy. Soc. Q. 1898, p. 64. 
$ , 74^96 mm. $ , 100-104 mm. Head grey. Palpi one-half, appressed 
to face ; blackish, lower surface whitish. Antennae grey- whitish ; pectina- 
tions in male 5, blackish, apical half simple. Thorax grey with an 
inverted blackish Y-mark, of which the interior is sometimes filled with 
dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous ; terminal segments and tuft whitish- 
grey ; apices of segments usually whitish. Legs whitish ; tarsi fuscous 
with whitish rings. Forewings narrow, somewhat broader in female, 
costa in male straight to three-fourths, thence slightly arched, in female 
