LEPIDOPTERA. 
PHALjENA elegans. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Firft wings ferruginous, with three greenith fpots edged with f.lver, the anterior one booked : p„f terior 
wings reddifh. 
Phalaena Elegans: alts anticis ferrugineis: maculis tnbus anteriore hamata viridibus argenteo-cindtis, 
pofiicis rufefcentibus. 
This pretty undefcribed fpecics is found in the vicinity of New South Wales. 
PHALiENA OCULTARIA. 
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SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings indented, greyifh, ftreaked with fufcous r anterior pair beneath fpotted with brown, and a 
fanguineous flreak; on the pofterior ones a ftreak of fanguineous, bordered exteriorly with fufcous, 
and marked with white fpots. 
Phaljena Ocultaria : alis dentatis grifeis fufco-ftrigofis fubtus anticis fufco-maculatis flriga fanguinea, 
pofiicis 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 conftantly excel the lower one*in point of beauty, or the brilliancy of colouring, that we are to 
regard our new Auftralafian fpecies not only as a very interefting infedt, but as a novelty, in which the 
ordinary courfe of nature appears reverfed. It fhould be obferved, that this diffimilarity is not by any 
means unfrequent in the Papilio genus, the lower furface of which are commonly the mod beautiful, but 
that it fcarcely ever occurs in any other 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 difference is fo remarkable 
in favour of the lower furface as in the infedt before us j the upper furface being of a plain, and pale 
grey, with a few dark freaks, while that is embellifhed with a rich variety of colours, and thofe dif- 
pofed in freaks and fpots in a very elegant manner. 
Them aie fpecimens of this curious infedt in the principal entomological cabinets in London. It is 
found in the neighbourhood of the Engliih fettlements in New South Wales, and has not to our 
knowledge been defcribed by any author. 
