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AUSTRALIAN LKl’IDOPTKRA. 
Bombyx FUMOSA, iiov.sp. 
c3' . So mill. Head and antennye red fuscous. Palpi smoky 
fuscous. Thorax iuscous black and fuscous red irrorated. 
Abdomen dark fuscous. Forewings, costa nearly straight; liind- 
margin rounded, cofiee-fuseous with sufiused irregular zig-zag 
transverse smoky fuscous lines over the Avhole wing ; a discal red 
line at f obliquely to median vein ; costa smoky black, black 
suffused, hindmarginal line denticulate smoky fuscous. Cilia 
light fuscous grey. Hindwings ground colour as Ibrewings, 
with fine scattered iron-grey scales. Cilia fuscous. 
One specimen at light; Brisbane. 
Bombyx Babnardi, nov.sp. 
d' 2 • 35-38 mm. Head and palpi creamy white. 
Antenme-stalk white, pectinations black. Thorax creamy 
white, shoulders light fuscous, and gradually becoming fus- 
cous posteriorly. Legs fuscous and ochreous annulate'!, with tufts 
of creamy ochreous on coxre. Abdomen light fuscous, wJiiter iu 2 • 
Forewings, costa straight, rounded at apex ; hindmargin gently 
rounded, light fuscous with darker shadings towards base and 
costa, three wool-white transverse lines, 1st from } costa, sinuous 
and denticulate to within a fourth of inner margin, where it 
angles obliquely as a straight line to base of wing ; 2nd from f 
■costa, waved outward in first third, obliquely in second third, and 
inwards in inner third to i inner margin ; 3rd a suffused line 
from near apex costa to | inner margin, dotted with a series of 
dark fuscous spots and two curved lines ; a white diseal spot 
anteriorly to 2iid line, from costa; in some instances 1st and 
2nd hues joined nearer to inner border by a white line ; in others 
2nd white line is continued along costal margin to meet the 3rd 
hue ; submarginal line fuscous. Cilia light fuscous. Hindwings 
i^ht fuscous, becoming darker toward base and along inner 
margin, submarginal line light fuscous. Cilia white, based with 
light fuscous. 
Collected near Launceston, Tasmania, by the late George 
Barnard. 
Bombyx ocularis, nov.sp, 
^ . 22 mm. Head and palpi light iron-grey. Antenn® 
light fuscous. Thorax light fuscous, irrorated sparsely with 
