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AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 
five or six dots oi black along costa, liindmarginal line of black 
dots. Cilia violet fuscous. Hindwings ochreous drab, suffused 
with smokj-grey, and banded by three transverse dentate black 
lines, hindinarginal line of black dots. Cilia ochreous drab 
with patches of smoky fuscous. 
One specimen at light, Brisbane. 
Hypcena transita, nov.sp. 
^ 2 . 18-20 mm. Head and antenna light-chocolate fus- 
cous. Palpi light fuscous, terminal joint hair-like and plumed, 
re-curved. Thorax light purplish-chocolate with fuscous dots. 
Abdomen light fuscous, with darker dorsal dots on 1st and 2nd 
segments, Avith diffused fuscous rings on hind segments. Fore- 
wings, costa nearly straight, apex acute, hindmargin bowed in 
middle, light-chocolate purplish fuscous, with darker fuscous 
shadings and black lines and markings. A dark fuscous dot 
near base close to costa, a wavy linear dark fuscous line from 
i costa to 1 inner margin, preceded by suffused lines of black 
and dark fuscous forming an irregular median band, a seahorse- 
shaped figure from opposite ^ costa to ^ inner margin, black and 
mixed fuscous, a dark suffused line from costal angle to liind- 
margiii just before apex, liindmarginal line of circular dots. 
Ciha fuscous. Hindwings light-purplish fuscous, with indistinct 
median line and a fine dark hindinarginal line. Cilia as fore- 
wings. 
Ijesal^^ Walk^ Queensland geijerally. Allied to H. 
Family HERMINIIAD^. 
Herminia asserta, nov.sp. 
1 ^ and thorax fuscous 
drab. Abdomen fuscous drab. Forewings, costa straight, hind- 
margin rounded, fuscous drab, irrorated with ochreous fuscous, 
i fuscous, a deep-black conspicuous discal spot beyond 
\ ^ oosta, a crenulate indistinct watermark and fuscous 
ochreous line | costa to ■ inner margin, a 2nd like line hom 
^ costa to I hindmargin, a fine hindmarginal 
and two submarginal fuscous lines alternating with fuscous 
ocJireous Imcs or dots. Cilia fuscous barred with ochreous fus. 
cous. Hindwmgs creamy ochreous sparingly irrorated with fus- 
cous grey, veins luscous, an interrupted indistinct crenulate 
