LEPIDOPTERA. 
PHAL^NA EL EGANS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTEK. 
Firft wings ferruginous, with three greenifli fpots edged with hlver, the anterior one hooked : poflerior 
wings reddifti. 
Phal.^ena Elegans: alis anticis ferrugineis: maculis tribus anteriore hamata viridibus argenleo-cindtis, 
poflicis rufefcentibus. 
This pretty undefcribed fpecies is found in the vicinity of New South Wales. 
PHALtENA ocultaria. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings indented, greyifli, ftreaked with fufcous : anterior pair beneath fpotted with brown, and a 
fanguineous ftreakj on the poflerior ones a flreak of fanguineous, bordered exteriorly with fufcous, 
and marked with white fpots. 
Phaljena Ocultakia: alis dentatis grifeis fufco-ftrigofis fubtus anticis fufco-maculatis ftriga fanguinea, 
poflicis fafcia fanguinea extus fufca, albida-notata. 
In all the Infedts of the Phalaena tribe we are at prefent acquainted with, the fuperior furface of the 
wings fo conflantly excel the lower one in point of beauty, or the brilliancy of colouring, that we are to 
regard our new Auflralafian fpecies not only as a very interefling infedt, but as a novelty, in which the 
ordinary courfe of nature appears reverfed. It fliould be obferved, that this diflimilarity is not by any 
means unfrequent in the Papilio genus, the lower furface of which are commonly the moft beautiful, but 
that it fcarcely ever occurs in any otJier of the Lepidopterous kinds of infedts. Of the Geometra tribe, to 
which our Phalaena Ocultaria belongs, we have certainly fome few fpecies that are equally beautiful on 
both furfaces, but no one, perhaps, has hitherto been difcovered in which the ditference is fo remarkable 
in favour of the lower furface as in the infedt before us; the upper furface being of a plain, and pale 
grey, with a few dark flreaks, while that is embellilhed with a rich variety of colours, and thofe dif- 
pofed in flreaks and fpots in a very elegant manner. 
There are fpecimens of this curious infedt in the principal entomological cabinets in London. It is 
found in the neighbourhood of the Englith fettlements in New South V/ales, and has not to our 
knowledge been defcribed by any author. 
