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XV. Descriptions of 21 new genera and 103 ncio sjiecies 
of Lepidoptera-Heterocera from the Australian 
Region. By Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 
&c. 
[Read June 2ud, 1886.] 
The species described in the present paper were sent to 
the Museum for identification, with many other previously 
named species received at the Godefiroy Museum from 
collectors in Australia, Fiji, &c. Many of the species, 
as might have been anticipated, form the types of new 
genera, but at the same time the appearance of the 
greater part of them is by no means striking, their 
colouring being, as a rule, sombre, — of various shades of 
brown or grey. 
All the species here described have been seen by Mr. 
Meyrick since I wrote the descriptions. 
AGAEISTID^. 
jSIgogera, Latr. 
1. ALgocera cor nig era, n. s. 
Allied to j^. diver sa {Agarista diver sa, Walk.), the pattern of 
the primaries being very similar to that species and to A. epliyra 
(Herr.-Sch., Aussl. Schm., fig. 27), but of a cupreous-brown colour; 
base white, divided by the veins, two subcostal spots near the 
base ; an oblique abbreviated fascia immediately below the second 
subcostal spot, and below it again an elongated spot on internal 
border ; a large quadi'ate spot crosses the discoidal cell towards its 
• extremity, and below it is an oblique irregular interno-median 
streak ; between the latter and the internal spot previously noted 
is a small internal dot ; beyond the cell is a broad almost 3-&haped 
fascia, and near the external angle a cuneiform spot; at about 
apical fourth is a subcostal dot ; an abbreviated series of seven dots 
crosses the disc almost parallel to the outer edge of the 3-shaped 
fascia, and is followed by a regular submarginal series alternating 
with a series of quadrate spots on the fringe ; all these markings 
are milk-white ; secondaries nearly as in ^. hicolor, ochreous, 
with a dark or cupreous-brown spot across the end of the cell, and 
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an irregularly sinnated external border of the same colour ; fringe 
white, ochreous at base and spotted with brown, in the male only 
towards ajiex, in the female throughout ; head and thorax white, 
the antenna;, a spot on the head, the front of collar, shoulders, 
two longitudinal stripes on the thorax, and an oblique stripe on the 
tegulfe brown, a short horny process, flattened and truncated in 
front projecting from the frons ; wings below much as above, but 
the primaries pale ochreous at the base so as to cover the subbasal 
sjiots of the upper surface, the white dots across the disc wanting, 
palpi white with an oblifLue lateral black dash and black terminal 
joint ; body below pale ochreous, legs partly brown above, the 
tarsi barred with white ; venter barred with brown. Expanse of 
wings : male, 29 mm. ; female, 37 mm. 
Male, Gayndah ; female, Peak Downs. 
The singular frontal process possessed by this species 
occurs in a much less highly developed condition in 
jE. divcrsa, and therefore I do not think it sufficient of 
itself to constitute a character of generic value. 
LITHOSIIDiE. 
MiLTOCHRISTA, Hilbfl. 
2. Miltoehrista simidans, n. s. 
Size and aspect of Nepita conferta (male), excepting in the 
absence of any dark border to the secondaries ; allied to Miltoehrista 
{Barsine) placens from Timor and Ceram ; primaries above grey, 
crossed by five series of ochreous markings, the first across the 
base semicircular, the second forming an interrupted angulated 
band across basal third and consisting of four somewhat oval spots 
in pairs, the third consisting of three nearly equidistant spots in an 
angular series across the middle of the wing ; the fourth begins 
with an oval costal spot, below which is a sinuous series of seven 
small spots only divided by the nervures ; the last consists of three 
unequal angulated spots on outer margin ; fringe ochreous ; a 
series of black marginal dots partly impinging upon the fringe ; 
secondaries pale ochreous, slightly deeper towards external border; 
body ochreous ; thorax reddish, spotted with slaty black ; under 
surface more salmon-tinted than above, markings on the primaries 
obliterated excepting on the borders ; legs barred with dull greyish 
black. Expanse of wings, 32 mm. 
Rockharapton. 
To any one who neglected to examine the neuration 
in new species this would appear to be a Nepita 
Heterocera from the Australian Region. 383 
(Liparidce) ; that Nepita really belongs to the latter 
family has been proved to me by Mr. F. Moore. 
Cyptasia, Walk. 
The following species belongs to a genus which has 
been referred to the LithosiicUe ; its structure appears to 
indicate some aftinity to the Micro-Lepidoptera ; never- 
theless, for the present it may stand where it has been 
placed. 
3'. Cyptasia cristata, n. s. 
Somewhat nearly allied to C. egrcgiella, but smaller ; primaries 
bronze-brown, flecked with cream-colour and with seven unequal 
but nearly equidistant spots round the borders of the wing, three 
costal, the third being a mere narrow oblique dash, one external 
and three internal ; fringe yellow opi^osite to the white spots ; 
secondaries bright salmon-orange, with a few greyish scales at 
apex ; head Bulj)hur-yellow, crested ; antennae pale bronze-brown, 
with white basal joint ; thorax dark brown, white-spotted behind ; 
abdomen sakuon-coloured ; under surface salmon-coloured, the 
primaries greyish, especially towards apex ; hinge alternately 
brown and sulphur-yellow as above. Expanse of wings, 20 mm. 
Gayndah. 
Until such genera as Themiscijra, Cyptasia, &c., have 
been carefully reared, and their actual affinities satis- 
factorily ascertained, their great resemblance to typical 
genera of LithosiicUe will always tend to raise a doubt as 
to their actual distinctness from that family ; characters 
offered by the imago alone are, as already shown in the 
case of the various genera formerly associated under 
Acronycta, not always reliable ; and for this reason (if 
for no other) all families erected upon the structure of 
the imago alone should be regarded with disfavour by 
lepidopterists : there cannot be a question that the 
Micro-Lepidoptera ought to be distributed among the 
larger moths, and that the sole reason for which the 
fathers of Entomology associated them was their usually 
small size ; yet it has been difficult in some cases for 
the most careful students to decide to their own satis- 
faction whether they had before them a Deltoid or a 
Tortrix, a Noctaa or a Tinea (these names are applied 
in their wide signification, of course) ; even the most 
confident workers have, after describing a species as a 
384 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 
Micro-Lepidopteron, come to the conclusion that it 
should have been placed amongst the Noctuites. 
Xanthodule, n. g. 
Form of Setina {S. ramosa) ; general aspect of Eitbaj^hc, neura- 
tion most like Eudule, but that of the primaries quite distinct ; 
costal vein terminating at third fourth of the margin, subcostal 
five-branched, the first three branches emitted before the end of 
the cell, fourth and fifth branches emitted from the anterior angle 
of the cell, forking from a long footstalk ; disco-cellulars inangled ; 
upper radial emitted from the anterior angle of the cell immediately 
below the last siibcostal branch ; lower radial emitted close to the 
third median, having the appearance of a fourth median branch ; 
second and third median branches emitted near together but at 
some distance beyond the first, the latter running obliquely almost 
to the external angle, almost joining the submedian vein at its 
extremity ; discoidal cell of secondaries extending to second-third 
of wing, the costal margin slightly concave, costal vein running 
almost to apex, subcostal forked at some distance beyond the cell ; 
disco-cellulars unequally inangled ; radial emitted nearer to the 
median than to the subcostal vein so as to appear like a fourth 
median branch, it and the second and third median branches being 
about equidistant ; first median branch a little fmiher apart ; body 
slender, the thorax rounded, the abdomen extending slightly 
beyond the anal angle of secondaries ; antennas thick at base, 
tapering, serrate-pectinated ; palpi wanting. 
4. Xanthodule semioclirea, n. s. 
Primaries pale greyish brown, with an ill-defined paler oblique 
sinuous transverse central band ; secondaries ochreous, with the 
apex and an ill-defined streak from it along the outer margin dark 
bi'own; head white, collar tinted with ochreous, thorax greyish 
white, abdomen whitish ; primaries below smoky brown, with a 
narrow tapering whitish apical border ; secondaries below as above ; 
legs (probably the palpi) and venter ochreous. Expanse of wmgs, 
18 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
LIPAllID/E. 
Chionophasma, n. g. 
Aspect of Porthesia, but with more thinly scaled wings, com- 
paratively smaller secondaries, and very different ncuration ; 
primaries elongate-ovato, the costal margin only slightly convex. 
Hcterocera from the Australian llegion. 385 
apex rounded, outer margin slightly convex, very oblique, con- 
tinuous with the inner margin, which is also slightly convex ; the 
neuration of all the wings utterly unlike that of any of the white- 
coloured genera of Liparidcs ; costal vein of iwimaries terminating 
at about the third fourth of costa; subcostal five-branched, the 
first branch emitted before the end of the cell, and the four others 
form a long footstalk ; of those four short branches the first and 
fourth start almost fi'om the same x3oint, but from opposite sides of 
the vein, the first running to costa, the last to outer margin, and 
the intermediate pair form a short fork to apex ; upper radial 
emitted from the anterior angle of the cell, lower radial from the 
posterior angle, where it appears as a fourth median branch ; disco- 
cellular veinlet inangled ; median branches nearly equidistant ; 
secondaries short, subpyriform ; costal vein running to apex ; dis- 
coidal cell short, not reaching the middle of the wing ; subcostal 
vein forked fi'om a long footstalk at one-thuxl the distance between 
the cell and outer margin ; disco-cellular extremely slender, in- 
angled ; no radial vein ; second and third median branches emitted 
from a short footstalk ; head and thorax clothed with woolly hair ; 
palpi depressed ; antennai short, pectinated ; abdomen with a large 
anal tuft ; legs tolerably robust, clothed somewhat sparsely with 
long silky hairs. 
In the branching of the subcostal nerviire of the 
primaries, the forking of the subcostal and median 
veins of secondaries, and the total absence of a radial 
vein in these wings, this genus is most abnormal. 
5. Chiono2)]iasma paradoxa, n. s. 
? . Wings semitrausparent snow-white, with a faint silky gloss ; 
two very slender greyish lines on the hinge ; body white, sparsely 
scaled ; abdomen with golden ochraceous anal tuft ; under surface 
coloiu'ed as above. Expanse of \vings, 32 mm. 
Eockhampton. 
This species was sent as the female of the succeeding 
Porthcsia, to which, in common with many other 
Lijiaridce, it bears considerable resemblance ; an exami- 
nation of the structure would, however, convince the 
most sceptical that there is no relationshi^j between 
them. 
386 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lcpidoptcra- 
PORTHESIA, Stcph. 
G. Portliesia aliena, n. s. 
Primaries sericeous snow-white ; costal margin towards the base 
golden brown ; secondaries white, the veins broadly suffused with 
pale testaceou.s, giving the wings a creamy tint ; thorax white, 
antennae with pale brown pectinations ; abdomen, excepting at 
base, yellowish barred with black ; anal tuft ochreous ; wings below 
white, slightly yellowish at the borders ; basal half of costal border 
of primaries dark brown ; pectus white ; palpi and front of anterior 
legs ochreous, legs otherwise cream-coloured ; venter ochreous. 
Expanse of wings, 30 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
Allied to P. similis of Europe. 
Leptocneria, n. g. 
Most nearly allied to Ocneria of Europe (0. rubra), but differing 
as follows : — Prinaaries comj)aratively longer, with more oblique 
and less regularly convex outer margin ; costal vein extending to 
about the second-third of costa ; subcostal with five branches, the 
first branch emitted considerably before the end of the cell and 
alxnost uniting with the second branch at some distance beyond the 
cell ; second branch emitted from the anterior angle of the cell, 
extending to the apex and throwing off the fom-th and fifth 
branches from its inferior edge ; the fifth branch is emitted at some 
distance beyond the cell and opposite to the point where the first 
and second branches almost unite ; the foui-th branch is emitted 
much nearer to outer margin ; the radials are emitted fi'om opposite 
. angles of the cell, the lower radial (as in Ocneria) forming a fourth 
median branch ; disco-cellular concave ; median branches almost 
as in Ocneria ; secondaries with the costal margin convex and the 
subcostal branches emitted from a footstalk; otherwise as in 
Ocneria ; woolly frontal tuft longer ; palpi much longer and less 
hairy ; tibial spines of hind legs nearer together ; antennas more 
strongly pectinated. 
7. Leptocneria hinotata, n. s. 
Whitish grey ; primaries with a dusky -margined white spot just 
beyond the middle of the cell, and a second reniform spot at the 
end of the cell ; these spots are enclosed between the two usual 
stripes, which are grey, a httle darker than the ground colour 
inner stripe sUghtly u-regular, dentated, outer stripe dentate-sinuate, 
Ileterocera from the Australian Retj'ion. 387 
inarched towards costa, otherwise parallel to outer margin ; an ill- 
defined submarginal macular stripe; fringe dusky spotted with 
sordid white ; secondaries with pale fringe ; thorax in front slightly 
brownish, antennae with ferruginous pectinations ; under surface 
of wings pearl-grey, the borders tinted with golden brown ; no 
markings ; pectus whitish ; legs and venter pale brown. Expanse 
of wmgs, 41 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
LASIOCAMPID^. 
COSMOTRICHE, Huhll. 
8. Custnotriche indistincta, n. s. 
2 . Allied to C. exjjosita of Lewin,* but paler ; wings of a 
semitransparent smoky grey tint ; primaries a little darker than 
secondaries, with an abbreviated indistinct dusky oblique stripe 
across the middle of the interno-median area, and traces of a sub- 
marginal series of dusky spots upon the veins ; head and front of 
collar blackish, centre of thorax dusky, abdomen brown ; antennae 
with testaceous pectinations ; body below smoky-brown ; wings 
more uniform in tint than above, wholly destitute of markings. 
Expanse of wings, 32 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
PiNARA, Walk. 
This was described as a genus of ArctiidiB ; the typical 
species, P. cana, consisted of the females of three 
species of Walker's genus Entuvida, placed by him in 
the Psychidie ; the female of a fourth species was, how- 
ever, referred to its proper family, and placed in the 
genus Opsirldna. 
9. Pinara rufesccns, n. s. 
^' . Intermediate in character between P. divisa and P. 
sesioides, but with the secondaries of a uniform rufous-brown tint ; 
primaries with the basal two-fifths to submedian vein and the 
costal area to lower radial vein reddish chocolate ; remainder of 
the whig pale rufous-brown, sparsely irrorated with cream-coloured 
scales ; a straight transverse creamy yellowish stripe across the 
basal fifth fi-om costa to submedian vein ; a white transverse spot 
across the end of the cell ; a whitish stripe across the middle of the 
disc, incurved towards costa, lunulated and interrupted by the 
* This species was redescribcd by Walker under the names of 
PoeciUogaster hehes and P. hrevis ; Boisduval's Bovihyx myceria 
may be the same moth. 
388 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 
veins below the lower radial ; four small orange spots, externally 
clotted with black just beyond the discal stripe on the median and 
interno-median interspaces ; external border greyish ; body pale 
rufous-brown, head and collar darker, antennae blackish ; anal tufts 
tipped with bright reddish chocolate ; wings below paler than 
above, primaries with no stripe across the basal fifth ; the disco- 
cellular spot pure white ; the discal stripe abbreviated, not 
extending below the third median branch, pure white ; jjectus 
smoky brown, venter bronze-brown. Expanse of wings, 36 mm. 
Eockhampton. 
LIMACODID^. 
DOEATIFERA, WcsttV. 
10. Donitifera ordinata, n. s. 
Ochreous ; primaries pale, irrorated with the usual shining 
scales ; a pale rust-red subbasal spot ; an oblique interrupted series 
of ill-defined rust-red spots across the middle, and a discal arched 
series of ten well-defined ferruginous spots parallel to outer margin ; 
tegulse whitish spotted with reddish ochreous ; centre of thorax 
reddish ochreous ; under surface pale sericeous-ochreous, costal 
borders darker ; legs ochreous barred with whitish. Expanse of 
wings, 33 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
Not near to any species known to me. 
NYCTEOLIDiE. 
EAraAS, Ilerr.-ScJi. 
11. Earias smaragdina, n. s. 
Closely allied to E. chlorana, but the costal margin of primaries 
shorter and the outer margin consequently less oblique, the 
priiBaries of a clearer emerald-green tint, costal border pale i^ea- 
grcen instead of white ; no orange margin towards the base of 
the costa ; external border darker green instead of yellowish ; 
secondaries of a less pearly white tint, more or less sordid, 
especially towards outer margin ; head and collar of a yellower 
tmt; under sm-face of primaries grey excepting at the margins, 
costal border cream-coloured, external margin greenish ; fringe 
white ; secondaries and body below white. Expanse of wings, 
11 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
Heterucera from the Australian Region. 
389 
COSSID^. 
ACKITOCERA, n. g. 
Nearest to the S, American genus Langsdorfia, but with some- 
what the aspect of a Notodont; primaries with the costa nearly 
straight, apex rounded ; outer margin obhque, very shghtly con- 
vex, rounded off at external angle ; inner margin incurved at base, 
otherwise nearly straight; all the veins separate; costal vein 
extending to a little beyond the middle of the margin, subcostal 
five-branched, emitting its lirst branch at about half-way between 
the base and apex; a httle beyond this the vein runs obliquely 
downwards and emits its other fom- branches near together, and at 
about equal distances apart ; upper radial emitted near to the fifth 
subcostal branch from the end of the cell, having the appearance 
of a sixth branch ; the lower radial also bears a similar relation to 
the third median branch, the second and third median branches 
and the lower radial being equidistant; disco-cellular vemlet 
zigzag, emitting two short recurrent veins ; submedian vein slightly 
curved outwards towards the base ; secondaries with long and very 
shghtly curved frenum; costal margin rather deeply sinuated 
towards the base and convex in the middle ; apex rounded ; outer 
margin slightly convex ; abdominal margin short, rounded off at 
anal angle ; costal vein nearly straight, very slightly arched, very 
thick towards the base ; subcostal vein slender, shghtly arched to 
end of cell and then straight to apex, simple, its second branch 
having passed round to the end of the cell and thus become an 
upper radial ; lower or true radial emitted near to the third median 
branch, thus having the aspect of a fourth branch ; disco-cellulars 
unequally zigzag, emitting one short recurrent vein ; third median 
emitted from the inferior angle of the cell, second branch running 
close to the main vein for a considerable distance towards the base, 
first branch emitted near to the base, sinuous towards its origin ; 
submedian and internal veins widely separated ; body very robust ; 
head broader than long, with a keeled fi-ontal crest ; eyes large and 
prominent ; palpi broad, with closely appressed scales, apical joint 
deflexed ; antennse reaching to about the middle of costa, broadly 
plumose in front, disordered, basal joint tufted, thorax broad, less 
convex than in most Cossidce above ; legs very thick, middle tibiae 
terminating in a long spur, posterior tibite with two subterminal 
and two terminal spurs ; abdomen broad, tapering and somewhat 
flattened, especially towards the anal extremity; anal tuft very 
small. 
390 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 
12. Acritocera negligens, n. s. 
Primaries brown, the veins slenderly blaelvish, the whole of the 
internervular areoles longitudinally streaked with blackish and 
dark brown ; an oblique pale testaceous stripe beyond the middle ; 
secondaries pale brown ; body brown, head and antennae whitish, 
palpi with blackish terminal joint; wings below pale brown, 
irregularly mottled with patches of dark brown scales. Expanse 
of wings, 41 mm. 
Viti Islands. 
The character of the antennge in this species is so 
peculiar that it at once arrests the attention ; in some 
respects it resembles that of Ereiixa {Amphidasijidoi), 
and still more nearly that of Ptilophora {Notodontidce), 
but the feathering in Acritocera is much less orderly, 
and is confined to one side of the shaft. 
LEUCANIIDiE. 
Leucania, Ochs. 
13. Leucania diatrecta, n. s. 
Pale creamy stone-colour; primaries above with a brown 
<-shaped marking at base, its upper fork resting upon the median 
vein, irrorated with black scales, and forming the commencement 
of a slender dusky median streak, which extends beyond the cell 
almost to the middle of the disc, but is interrupted at the inferior 
angle of the cell by a black and white dot ; a slender blackish 
streak along the internal margin, but not extending to the base ; 
fringe shghtly greyish, preceded by a marginal series of black 
points ; secondaries semitrauspareut sericeous-white, with ill- 
defined greyish apical external border and fringe, tapering towards 
the first median branch, where it ceases ; a white line at the base 
of the fringe ; a short blackish streak on the inner fringe of the 
tegulffi ; primaries below with marginal black dots and greyish 
fringe, otherwise without markings ; secondaries with six inter- 
nervular marginal black dots ; antennie below ochraceous. Expanse 
of wings, 29 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
14. Leucania lewinii, n. s. 
(? . Primaries above wliity brown, irrorated with black scales ; 
a broad brown longitudinal median streak, divided by a slender 
white stripe, which runs along the median vein and its third 
Heteroccra from the Australian Re(jion. 31)1 
branch ; a creamy whitish longitudinal streak immediately above 
the median streak; a marginal series of black dots; apex dnsky; 
secondaries silvery white; thorax whitish stone-colour, abdomen 
white ; primaries below and costal border of secondaries creamy 
whitish, remainder of secondaries pure white, all the wmgs with 
marginal black dots ; body below white, antennae below dark brown. 
Expanse of wings, 28 mm. 
Gayndab. 
15. Leucania scottii, n. s. 
Primaries above cream-colour ; vems whitish margined on both 
sides, from the middle of the wing, with ferruginous, internervular 
folds also indicated by longitudinal ferruginous lines; a broad 
longitudinal ferruginous streak, enclosing an ill-defined grey stripe, 
commencing below the median vein, which interrupts it at the end 
of the cell, where it passes into the upper radial interspace ; two 
black discoidal dots just above the median vein, the second withm 
the inferior angle of the cell ; a marginal series of black dots ; 
fringe gTeyish, paler at the extremities of the veins ; secondaries 
sericeous-white, with greyish external border, especially towards 
apex, where there are also indications of blackish marginal dots ; 
body white; antenna greyish; primaries below flesh-coloured, 
with the base and internal area white, secondaries white with 
flesh-coloured apex ; body white, tarsi blackish ; venter with lateral 
black dots. Expanse of wings, 27 mm. 
riockhampton. 
16. Leucania crucgeri, u. s. 
^ . Vaguely resembles the genus E])i'mecia ; primaries above 
cream-coloured, the vems from the middle of the wing silvery 
white, slenderly edged on both sides with greyish brown; the 
internervular folds also indicated by slender greyish brown longi- 
tudinal lines ; a broad sflvery white longitudinal discoidal stripe 
edged below with brown; above and beyond this is a cream- 
cofoured stripe, tinted with ochraceous, and running oblicpiely 
upwards from the end of the ceU to the apex ; fringe with^ two 
unequal brown stripes ; secondaries semitransparent, white, tmted 
with greyish towards outer margin ; fringe white, with a brownish 
stripe towards the base; thorax white, antenna; and abdo- 
men cream-coloured ; primaries below shining cream-coloured ; 
secondaries shining white ; body below white, anal tuft slightly 
yellowish. Expanse of wings, 31 mm. 
Gayndah. 
392 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 
17. Leucania alarioides, n. s. 
Primaries above rose-pink, divided in tlie middle by two broad 
longitudinal creamy white bands, the upper one passing from 
outer margin through the upper radial interspace into the cell, 
where it tapers to a point near the base, sometimes bounded on 
each side by a dusky streak ; lower band filling the median inter- 
spaces and continued below the median vein to the base, where it 
is somewhat abruptly pointed, being bounded by the upcurved 
submedian vein ; fringe white, traversed by two rose-colom-ed 
stripes ; secondaries sericeous-white, with rose-pink veins ; fi-inge 
shghtly pink at apex; head dull vinous, collar greyish, thorax 
white, tegulae rose-tinted on the shoulders ; abdomen white ; wings 
below shining creamy white ; primaries with the veins pink ; 
median area clouded with fuliginous-brown ; fringe rosy hlacine ; 
secondaries with rosy costal margin ; fringe pure white ; j)ectus 
silvery white, legs dull rose-colom- varied with silvery white, abdo- 
men silvery white, becoming sordid towards anal angle and banded 
with rosy lilacine. Expanse of wings, 29 mm. 
Peak Downs and Gayndah. 
This is one of the most deHcately-colonred species in 
the genus, agreeing in tint with some species of Alaria. 
EUEYPSYCHE, n. g. 
Allied to Leucania, with which it agrees in neuration, 
excepting that the veins are wider apart owing to the 
greater width of the wings ; antennse finely ciliated ; 
body more slender than in Leucania. 
18. EurijpsycJie similis, n. s. 
^ . Wings above silvery greyish white ; primaries pale vinous- 
brown towards apex of costal border ; basal half of costal border, 
interno-median area, and internal border irrorated with scattered 
black scales ; a central longitudinal brown streak commencing with 
a blackish line below the median vein (which is white), then 
passing, as a narrow dark brown streak, immediately above the 
median vein to the base of the lower radial interspace, where it is 
interrupted, continued agani as a blackish line in the upper radial 
iuterspuco ; an ill-defined flesh-tinted streak in the cell, bounding 
the upper edge of the central longitudinal streak ; a marginal series 
of black points ; secondaries slightly darker towards outer margin ; 
a marginal series of elongated dusky dots ; fringe whitish, traversed 
Heterocera from the Australian Region. 393 
by a grey stripe ; body white, antenna3 pale bronzy brown ; pri- 
maries below and costal and external borders of secondaries shining 
pale brown; a marginal series of black dots; remainder of 
secondaries silvery white ; pectus pale brown ; venter white. 
Expanse of wings, 30 mm. 
Gayndab. 
In general tint and pattern this species much resembles 
Lcucania kwinii, but the differences of structure will at 
once separate it. 
CAEADEINIDiE. 
Cakadrina, Ochs. 
19. Caradrina striolata, n. s. 
Primaries above dnll copper-brown, costal border dull whity 
brown, boimded below by a diffused blackish streak, which passes 
through the cell and then obliquely upwards to apex; a zigzag 
black line across the basal fourth ; reniform spot small, outlined in 
black, and immediately followed by a transverse irregularly undu- 
lated black discal hne from subcostal vein to inner margin ; a series 
of unequal longitudinal discal black dashes upon the veins, and a 
marginal series of black dots commencing at outer third of costal 
margin ; fringe grey, spotted with yellowish at the base and 
flecked with white ; secondaries creamy white, with a slender 
dusky marginal hne towards apex, and two greyish spots traversed 
by a darker line on the fringe ; head and front of collar dull 
whitish ; thorax fuliginous-brown ; abdomen whitish ; primaries 
below pale shining bronze-brown, the disc in some lights changing 
to ash-grey ; internal area whitish ; fringe blackish, with pale basal 
dots ; secondaries pearly white, with a broad costal brown border 
not extending quite to the base ; pectus white ; legs and venter 
pale greyish brown. Expanse of wings, 25 mm. 
Viti Islands. 
Belongs to the same group with C. cuhicularis, of 
Europe. 
PiADINOGOES, n. g. 
Allied to Caradrina, but differing in its narrower 
primaries and in neuration, which is that of Hi/di-illa 
{II. palustris), the subcostal branches and the second 
and third median branches of the secondaries being 
emitted from footstalks ; the palpi sufficiently distinguish 
this genus from Hydrilla, as they are gently curved 
upwards and not fringed. 
394 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 
20. Radinogoes tenuis, n. s. 
General aspect of Caradrina cuhicularis, but much smaller ; 
primaries cupreous-brown ; discoidal area dusky, excepting for a 
central longitudinal line, on which are two small black si)ots, 
indicating the orbicular and reniform spots ; a deeply zigzag black 
line across the basal third, and a very ill-defined curved denticu- 
lated line bounded externally by a pale cupreous-brown stripe 
across the disc just beyond the cell ; a marginal series of alternate 
black and pale cupreous dots ; fringe dark gi'ey ; secondaries 
pearly white ; veins and a slender marginal line cupreous-brown ; 
apex suffused with pearl-grey ; head and thorax cupreous-brown ; 
abdomen white ; primaries below silvery whitish ; costa and fringe 
grey-speckled ; secondaries pearly white ; costa grey-speckled ; 
body whity brown. Expanse of wings, 21 — 24 mm. 
Peak Downs ; Eockhampton. 
COSMIID^. 
Leucocosmia, n. g. 
General aspect of Orthosia, but much paler ; allied to 
Enargia {E. ahluta), but the primaries narrower, and 
the antenuffi, with the exception of the basal joint, very 
slender, filiform, tapering. 
21. Leucocosmia ceres, n. s. 
3" . Primaries above pale sericeous sandy brown, almost golden, 
crossed towards base by three irregularly zigzag stripes formed by 
somewhat contorted double lines of brown, duller and darker than 
the ground colour ; a transverse brown stripe, dentate-sinuate 
externally, crosses the wing just beyond the middle ; between this 
and the basal stripes is a black discoidal dot indicating the 
orbicular spot, and at the end of the cell (bounded internally by 
the post-median stripe) is a small unciform whitish spot repre- 
senting the reniform spot ; external two-sevenths dusky, darker 
than the ground colour, bounded internally by a cream-coloured 
slightly sinuous stripe, beyond which a,re two parallel darker brown 
lines ; a submarginal trisinuate whitish stripe ; a marginal series 
of minute black dots ; fringe creamy white, with dusky brown 
external edge ; secondaries pearly hyaline whitish, the veins and 
broad diffused external and abdominal borders pale sericeous gold- 
brown ; body pale brown, slightly greyer than the primaries, below 
whity brown with golden reflections, markings of the upper surface 
Heterocera from the Australian Region. 395 
almost obsolete; secondaries with an oblique discal series of 
blackish dashes on the veins; otherwise as above; body below 
whitish. Expanse of wings, 31 mm. 
Viti Islands. 
Dysbatus, n. g. 
Allied to Cosmia, but with more nearly the coloration of the 
Honwptcridcc ; primaries triangular ; costal vein extending to 
about thu-d fourth of costal margin ; subcostal vein five-branched, 
emitting its first branch before the end of the cell, its second to 
foiarth at a considerable distance beyond, the third and fom'th 
forming a rather short fork to apex, the fifth emitted from the 
posterior margin of the main vein a little before the emission of 
second branch from the anterior margin ; the upper radial emitted 
fi:om the anterior angle of the cell, and the lower radial from about 
the middle of the disco-cellulars, which form a concave line; 
median vein swollen and sinuous towards the base ; second and 
third median branches emitted fi-om the same point at the posterior 
angle of the cell; secondaries subpyiiform, the costal and abdo- 
minal margins nearly straight, and the outer margin rounded and 
sinuated ; costal vein running close to the subcostal to about the 
middle of the cell, and thence diverging to apex ; subcostal forking 
from the anterior angle of the cell ; radial obsolete, replaced by a 
slender longitudinal fold from base to outer margin ; disco-cellular 
veinlet inarched ; second and third mechan branches forking from 
the posterior angle of the cell ; thorax broad, rounded ; head broad, 
palpi short, compressed, with sharply defined quadrate fringe at 
the base, porrect ; proboscis long and thick; antennas slender, 
tapering, internally pectinated ; legs long, femora flattened, pos- 
terior tibi» broad and flat, abdomen slender, laterally tufted. 
22. Dyshatus singularis, n. s. 
Primaries above cinereous, tinted with pale brownish towards 
base and external area ; crossed by six black lines, the first sub- 
basal, oblique, the second at basal third curved, the third just 
before the middle angulated upon the median vein and inarched 
below it, the fourth crossing the disc like the third, but less strongly 
angulated, the fifth very irregular, thick, undulated and dentated, 
hmitmg the external area, the sixth submargiual, ill-defined, 
excepting at apex, where it commences with an oblique black dash 
costal border, excepting at apex, and a spot at the end of the cell, 
. dusky ; an interrupted black marginal line ; fringe whitish spotted 
with grey; secondaries greyish white, shghtly sericeous, with a 
396 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 
broad dusky external border tapering to anal angle ; fringe greyish 
white ; thorax and base of abdomen cinereous ; remainder of abdo- 
men fuliginous-grey, with narrow white segmental bands ; under 
surface sericeous-white, the wings irrorated with black-brown 
scales, especially towards the costal margins ; a broad blackish 
external border, fading to grey towards the externo-anal margins, 
and with a whitish apical spot ; fringes grey, white at base ; legs 
grey-speckled, the tibiae and tarsi almost entirely dark grey. 
Expanse of wings, 28 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
This species bears but little external resemblance to 
its allies. 
PLUSIID^. 
Westermannia, Huhn. 
23. Westermannia argentata, n. s. 
Primaries above silvery white ; secondaries pearly subhyaline, 
the costal area with brassy reflections ; veins smoky grey ; external 
border smoky grey, diffused, fringe dark grey ; thorax pure pearl- 
white, collar bright orange in front; abdomen white, barred with 
smoky grey ; primaries below dark smoky grey with golden 
reflections ; costal border cream-coloured ; secondaries peai'l-white, 
with a slender blackish marginal line ; fruage brownish at base ; 
body below pearl-white ; tibiae cream-coloured ; anal segment of 
venter whity brown. Expanse of wings, 33 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
This species has the general aspect, but not the 
structure, of Metoponia. 
24. Westermannia concha, n. s. 
Allied to W. superba, much smaller ; primaries silvery white 
washed with bronze towards costa ; a narrower internal border, a 
large rounded spot at centre of mterno-median area, and a broad 
external border gradually narrowing to apex leaden grey, partly 
edged and flecked with bronze-brown ; an indistinct narrow white 
looped line, commencing on the costa before the middle, crossing 
the cell, bounding the interno-median spot and part of the external 
border as far as the upper radial, where it leaves it and retm-ns to 
costa at apical fourth ; secondaries white, semitransparent, pearly 
except towards costa, where there are brassy reflections ; veins and 
a well-defnied external border tapering to a point at submedian 
vein smoky brown ; fringe white ; body pearl-whitish, collar 
Heterocerafrom the Australian Region. 397 
buff-coloured ; primaries below shining leaden grey ; the internal 
area and a narrow line at base of fringe white ; secondaries nearly 
as above, but the border leaden grey and the veins silvery ; body 
below pure pearl-white ; anterior femora grey in front, anterior 
tarsi broadly barred with grey. Expanse of wings, 26 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
XYLINID^. 
Ceambodes, Gucn. 
25. Cra)nl)odes minor, n. s. 
Considerably smaller than C. talidiformis, with pale costal area 
to primaries and brownish secondaries ; primaries above silvery 
grey, darker and with bronze-brown reflections in an oblique line 
from the inferior angle of the cell to the apex, so as to form an ill- 
defined diffused streak, crossed by a black-edged tapering longi- 
tudinal cream-coloured streak from the reniform spot ; discoidal 
cell and reniform spot also cream-coloured ; a slightly curved 
longitudinal white litura in the cell just above the median vein ; 
reniform spot white-edged, and enclosing a small brown spot below 
the median vein ; a discal series of short black dashes upon the 
internervular folds towards outer margin ; fringe blackish, inter- 
rupted by slender white lines in continuation of the veins ; internal 
border cream-coloured towards base, two or three irregularly placed 
black or blackish subbasal longitudinal lines ; secondaries shining 
pale brownish grey, slightly darker towards outer margin ; fringe 
white, with a pale brownish subbasal line ; thorax grey, abdomen 
whity brown ; primaries below grey ; secondaries cream-coloured, 
with a slender abbreviated black marginal line and white fringe ; 
body below gi-eyish white. Expanse of wings, 21 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
Crioa, Walker. 
26. Crioa acronyctina, n. s. 
Aspect of the genus Pharetra {Acronycta, part, auct.) ; primaries 
whitish cinereous, black-speckled ; about six short oblique black 
abbreviated costal strife followed by the discal line, which is very 
irregular, commencing at the subcostal vein, running obliquely 
outwards almost to the ujiper radial vein, where it bends down at 
a sharp angle and runs transversely to the second median branch, 
where it again turns abruptly inwards and forms a deep sinus 
(through the centre of which the first median branch passes), then 
inwards again to meet the inner line, which is 3-shaped and con- 
tinuous with the third costal stria ; three subapical longitudinal 
TRANS. ENT. SOC, LOND. 188G. VMiT IV. (DEC.) 2 E 
398 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 
black strife, the two Tipper ones crossed by a zigzag white line ; a 
diffused white subapical dash below the black striae ; median inter- 
spaces fuliginous-brown, enclosing longitudinal black strife, and 
crossed by white lunate markings ; a deeply dentate-sinuate slender 
black marginal line ; fringe white spotted with fuliginous-brown ; 
secondaries pale testaceous or whity brown with golden cupreous 
reflections, the veins, a discal line, and a broad external border 
greyish brown ; fringe white ; thorax brown, white-speckled and 
streaked with black ; abdomen mouse-grey ; under sm'face whitish, 
with faint cupreous reflections ; disco-cellular spots lunate, two 
somewhat diffused discal arched stripes, the veins, and a slender 
marginal line greyish chocolate ; tibise hairy, chocolate-tinted ; 
tarsi black-barred. Expanse of wings, 34 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
The genus Crioa appears to me to be allied to the 
European genus Lithocampa. 
ACONTIIDiE. 
Aporocosmus, n. g. 
Alhed to Agrophila ; with similar pattern ; the thorax, however, 
smoother ; the palpi longer, porrected, the veining of the wings 
somewhat different ; costal vein of primaries extending to about 
the middle of the costal margin ; subcostal four-branched, the fifth 
branch being emitted as a third radial from the anterior angle of 
the cell ; first subcostal branch emitted before the end of the cell, 
second running from the end of the cell to costa, third and fourth 
formmg a short fork, the fourth running to apex ; upper (in this 
case the second) radial emitted from the same point with the fifth 
subcostal branch (or first radial) ; lower or third radial emitted as 
a fourth median branch from the inferior angle of the cell ; first 
and second median branches wide apart ; secondaries with the 
costal vein much swollen at the base, coalescing with the subcostal 
to beyond the cell, where it separates and runs obliquely to apex ; 
the first branch of the subcostal vein thus appears to be merely a 
furca from the costal, and its second branch is emitted freely as a 
radial ; the true radial is emitted as a fourth median branch at the 
same point with the third median and close to the origin of the 
second ; disco-cellulars very oblique and angulated ; first and 
second median branches tolerably wide apart ; legs rather long 
and compressed. 
Heterocera from the Australian Region. 399 
27. Ajwrocosinus hracteatns, n. s. 
Primaries above cream-coloured ; markings red-brown, spangled 
with silver as follows : an interrupted oblique band and a spot at 
base, an oblique irregular band crossing the wing before the middle, 
a broader transverse irregular abbreviated band from costa to 
median vein across the end of the cell, a slightly sinuous discal 
band subparallel to outer margin, two short arched bands almost 
uniting at centre of outer margin, the inferior one interruj)ted, an 
interrupted marginal line, and a similar line on the fi'inge, which 
is white ; secondaries pale golden brown or " dead golden," with 
tlie costal area, excepting at apex, cream-coloured ; a dark brown 
extet*tial border shot with gold, and therefore only visible in certain 
lights ; the extreme margin irregularly pale yellow ; fringe very 
long, cream-coloured, traversed by a slender interrupted brown 
line ; body colom'ed in accordance with the wings, the thorax 
cream-coloured and spotted, the abdomen golden opaline ; under 
surface pale stramineous, the primaries with indications of the 
markings of the upper surface in pale smoky brown ; secondaries 
with a discal line of brown parallel to outer margin ; pectus pearly 
whitish. Expanse of wings, IG mm. 
Peak Downs. 
AcoNTiA, Ochs. 
28. Acontia amorpha, n. s. 
Allied to A. signifera of India, from which it chiefly differs in 
its slightly superior size and paler golden brown banding of the 
primaries ; it also differs in showing traces of stripes across the 
basal area, in having two spots, the lower one black, in place of the 
black crescent in the reniform spot, and the secondaries decidedly 
darker. Expanse of wings, 18 mm. 
Gayndah. 
Specimens of this species from Moreton Bay stand in 
the collection under a MS. name of Walker's. 
29. Acontia vitiensis, n. s. 
Also allied to A. signifera ; primaries above pearl-white, crossed 
in the middle by a broad cupreous-brown baud with dentate sinuate 
edges, the inner edge bounded by a black line ; reniform spot 
indicated by a cupreous-brown 3-shaped markmg beyond the cell, 
and a corresponding black linear marking just beyond it at the 
edge of the external border ; the latter broad, cupreous-brown, 
dotted with white on costal margin, flecked with black and white 
400 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 
towards the outer margin, along which is a reddish cupreous stripe ; 
fringe white : secondaries sericeous creamy whitish, with diffused 
cupreous-brown external border and an ill-defined stripe of the 
same colour on the fringe ; thorax white flecked with cupreous- 
brown, abdomen brown in type (sometimes cream-coloured flecked 
with brown) ; primaries below greyish with pink reflections ; 
secondaries sericeous creamy whitish, suffused with pink towards 
costal and external margins ; pectus pearl-white, legs pale flesh- 
brown, anterior legs greyish above ; venter whitish. Expanse of 
wings, 21 mm. 
Viti Islands. 
Also in the Museum from Moreton Bay ; it is nearly 
related to the " Erastria " ritsemcs of Snellen. 
30. Acontia tripartita, n. s. 
Allied to the preceding species ; primaries pure white, divided by 
two transverse eqiiidistant undulated chocolate-brown bands into 
three nearly equal parts, the inner band of about half the width of 
the outer, the latter expanded into an oblong spot upon the costa ; 
a blackish costal spot near the base ; an irregular submarginai 
brown line and a slender black-brown marginal line ; fringe flecked 
with brown ; secondaries sericeous, cream-coloured, broadly 
suffused with grey towards oixter margin ; an interrupted slender 
dark brown marginal line ; thorax cream-coloured ; abdomen 
gi'eyish, especially in the middle ; primaries below smoky grey ; 
apical third of costal border black spotted with ochreous ; 
secondaries pale creamy ochreous, changing in certain lights to 
silvery greyish ; costal area irrorated with blackish ; a black spot 
at the end of the cell, and an angulated discal stripe beyond it 
from costa to submedian vein ; all the wings with a very slender 
black marginal line ; body below ochreous. Expanse of wings, 
15 mm. 
Eockhampton. 
31. Acontia niripicta, n. s. 
Allied to A. maculosa of China and A. tctragona of St. Domingo. 
Primaries above deep olivaceous, shading into cupreous-tinted 
chocolate-brown towards outer margin ; interno-median area 
glossed with lilac and crossed by four interrupted obhque bands of 
the ground colour ; a large quadrangular snow-white patch at base, 
and upon it, close to the base, four unequal dark olivaceous spots ; 
three black dots along the infero-exterior margin of the basal 
Heterocera from the Australian Region. 401 
patch ; two snow-white costal patches, the first larger than the 
second, its margin denticulated and boiinded on each side by the 
discoidal spots, which are black and annular; three black spots 
bounded externally by a rectangular red-brown marking beyond 
the cell ; an irregular line of white scales crossing the disc towards 
outer margin, partly enclosing two black dots towards costa, con- 
fluent, and forming an obhque dentated hne towards external 
angle ; a submarginal series of black spots with white mternal 
borders ; a large white spot on the fringe below the middle and a 
narrow whitish dash crossing it longitudinally at apical thu'd ; the 
remainder of the fringe is divided by a central blackish line, beyond 
which it is glossed with grey; secondaries straw-yellow, with a 
broad external brown border ; basal half of fringe occupied by a 
brown stripe, separated from the external border by an ochreous 
line ; outer half of fringe white ; thorax white, the collar slightly 
sordid ; abdomen ochreous banded with brown, the base and anus 
white; wings below stramineous; primaries clouded with grey, 
indicating the pattern of the upper surface; secondaries with 
three dark grey costal spots, shot with rosy cupreous, the third at 
apex, almost confluent with a dark spot on the fringe ; body below 
white. Expanse of wings, 22 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
32. Acontia detrita, n. s. 
Alhed to the preceding species ; primaries above with the basal 
patch reduced to a basal spot on the costa, the two other costal 
spots smaller than in A. nivixncta; all three spots slightly 
yellowish ; indications of an oblique yellowish stripe connecting 
the central spot with the inner margin ; black marldngs on the 
wings less sharply defined ; the discal line of white scales not 
terminating in a dentated line as m A. nivificta, but uniform 
throughout ; no large white spot on the fringe, the latter cream- 
coloured, marked with three dusky spots, one at apex, one above 
the middle, and one at external angle ; secondaries bronze-brown, 
greyish towards the base ; body whity brown ; primaries below 
smoky grey, with a golden gloss; costal border white at base, 
otherwise ochreous, interrupted beyond the cell; internal border 
cream-coloured ; secondaries pale golden stramineous ; a spot at 
end of cell, an angular discal stripe, and a tapering marginal stripe 
dusky; fringe greyish; body below white. Expanse of wings, 
19 mm. 
Gayndah. 
•i02 Mr Butler's descriptions of Lcjndoptera- 
33. Acontia clarissa, n. s. 
General pattern of A. Komaga, but smaller and witli yellow 
instead of white basal area and costal spot ; primaries with the 
basal half pale creamy yellow, u'regularly variegated with chrome- 
yellow ; the inner border and two or three longitudinal costal 
dashes leaden grey ; external half purplish brown internally, pale 
reddish brown externally, the division between the two halves of 
the wing oblique and biangulated; reniform spot indistinct, 
yellowish, followed by a blackish >-shaped character; a small 
yellowish white costal spot at apical fourth; a very indistinct 
submarginal zigzag whitish line ; fringe white, flecked with black 
towards apex, and with a brown patch at external angle; secondaries 
bronze-brown, with the basal half pale ; fringe tipped with white ; 
thorax yellow in front, greyish behind ; abdomen wliity brown, 
with a dusky dorsal stripe ; under surface as in the preceding 
species. Expanse of wings, 24 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
34. Acontia conchiclia, n. s. 
Primaries above chalky white ; costal margin to the end of the 
cell divided into three equal parts by small black dots ; edge of 
costal margin black ; an abbreviated black-speckled brown band, 
with midulated internal and dentate-sinuate external margin from 
the inner margin to the base of the third median branch, a small 
spot similarly coloured just above the median vein, from which a 
straight line of black runs across the cell to the subcostal vein ; a 
large irregular French-blue patch, with black external border 
immediately beyond the cell ; a subsigmoidal discal bronze-brown 
stripe varied with plumbageous across the disc ; external border 
narrow, of the same colours, excepting that the brown is of a more 
orange tint ; a marginal series of smaU black spots ; fringe white, 
traversed by central and external greyish stripes, and spotted at 
the extremities of the veins with sandy brown ; secondaries cream- 
colom-ed, with diffused golden brown external border and white 
fringe spotted towards apex with golden brown ; thorax white, 
abdomen testaceous ; wings below creamy white with brassy 
reflections, primaries with a brown spot on the inner margin near 
external angle ; secondaries with a brown apical spot ; body below 
pearl-white ; venter with lateral blackish dots and pale stramineous 
anal tuft. Expanse of wings, 28 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
Ileterocem from the Australian He(jiuii. 408 
EEASTEIID^. 
Eeastria, Ochs. 
35. Erastria fasciolata, n. s. 
Primaries above dark fuliginous-grey, traversed by numerous 
subparallel black undulated lines ; a number of interrupted undu- 
lated ash-grey stripes between the black lines ; an kregular white 
baud tapering to costal margin across the basal thii-d, a white costal 
spot at apical third, two white costal dots between the latter and 
the apex, a widely interrupted submarginal series of white dots 
and an oblique squamose white spot at the external angle ; a slender 
black marginal line formed by the confluence of subcorneal black 
spots ; h-inge white at apex, otherwise brown dotted with white ; 
secondaries fuliginous-grey, with bronze reflections ; a black 
marginal Une ; fringe cream-coloured, traversed by a grey stripe ; 
thorax dark fuUginous-grey, with lateral white dots on the collar ; 
abdomen cream-coloured at the sides, a broad dark grey dorsal 
band traversed by slender whitish segmental lines ; primaries below 
sericeous-grey ; basal two-fifths of costal area cream-colom-ed, with 
scattered black scales on the costal margin ; a quadrate white spot 
at about the apical third of costa, and indications of a pale stripe 
in continuation of it across the disc ; a siibmarginal series of white 
dots and a marginal series of indistinct cream-coloured dots 
alternating with the confluent conical black spots ; fringe dark grey, 
with the apex, external angle, and a basal line cream-coloured ; 
secondaries with the basi-abdominal area silver-grey, two large 
white discoidal spots; remainder of wing dark fuliginous-grey, 
crossed beyond the middle by an irregular white band ; a sub- 
margmal irregular interrupted white line ; fringe silver-grey, with 
a white basal line ; body below cream-colom-ed. Expanse of wings, 
15 nam. 
Peak Downs. 
ANTHOPHILID^. 
Metachrostis, Hiihner* 
36. Metachrostis jxiurograpta, n. s. 
General size and coloration of M. mcndacidalis, but without the 
undulated ash-grey lines on the secondaries ; the primaries with 
all the transverse hues blacker, making the ground colour appear 
to be lighter ; these lines are also less obhque and more irregular ; 
- This is the Le2)tosia of Guenee, a name preoccupied in the 
Butterflies. Scudder argues, upon what 1 thhik are unsatisfactory 
grounds, that Leptosia is a synonym of Lcptulla. 
404 Mr. Butler's descrijytions of Lepidoptera- 
undev surface also very similar to M. Tnendaculalis , but the iuternal 
border of the primaries greyish white ; the secondaries decidedly 
whiter, with the two abbreviated dusky stripes from the costa 
rather better defined ; palpi with longer terminal joint, the distal 
half black, crossed by a whitish line between the joints. Expanse 
of wings, 18 mm. 
Rockhampton. 
Thalpochaees, Ledcrer. 
37. Thalpochares leonata, n. s. 
Allied to T. partita of Java ; stramineous ; primaries with the 
external half brownish testaceous, crossed along its inner edge by 
an externally waved darker and somewhat lilacine band, and 
margined internally by a white and black l^^ne ; a submarginal 
series of black dots ; external border narrowly greyish, tapering 
at the extremities, bounded internally by a white line ; fringe 
broad, flesh-pink, irrorated, excepting along the outer edge, with 
red-brown; costa slightly redder than the ground colour; secondaries 
with a diffused externo-discal ferruginous stripe, only well-defined 
towards the abdominal margin ; slender marginal and submarginal 
ferruginous lines ; fringe whitish, traversed by a slender pale 
brownish line, and margined with the same colour ; wings below 
ochreous, irrorated with ferruginous towards the apices ; internal 
borders whitish ; costal margin of primaries from beyond the 
middle to the apex blackish spotted with white ; legs whitish. 
Expanse of wings, 15 mm. 
Eockhampton. 
38. Jlialpocliarcs pusilla, n. s. 
Somewhat allied to T. j^arva, though altogether more brightly 
coloured ; primaries with the ground colour whity brown, crossed 
before the middle by an internally diffused oblique castaneous 
band, its outer edge sharply defined, followed almost immediately 
by an internally diffused greyish band, its outer edge bounded by 
a darker sinuous discal line ; a broad patch of castaneous below the 
apex, and a second at external angle, with a slender arched con- 
necting line of the same colour ; four submarginal white dots, the 
three upper ones crossing the subapical patch, and the fourth upon 
the inferior patch ; a marginal series of blackish dots followed by 
a white line at the base of the fringe ; fringe pale grey with reddish 
reflections, white externally with a brown edge ; secondaries 
whitish, becoming gi-eyish brown towards outer margin ; fringe 
Heteroccra from the Australian Region. 405 
white ; body white ; primaries below grey, with white fringe ; 
secondaries and body white. Expanse of wings, 14 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
39. Thalpocliares innocens, n. s. 
Wings above satiny whitish, with faint goiden reflections; 
primaries with the costal border snow-white towards the base; 
edge of costal and onter margins golden ochraceous; head and 
collar ochraceous ; thorax glistening snow-white ; abdomen pearl- 
whitish ; nnder surface creamy whitish ; primaries with the 
discoidal area slightly greyish, the costal and external borders 
slightly yellowish; pectus snow-white, legs and anus yellowish. 
Expanse of wings, 22 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
Nearest to a Venezuelan sjiecies, T. dehilis. 
Anthophila, 
40. Anthophila vestalis, n. s. 
(? . Snow-white ; costal margin of primaries slenderly golden 
brown, four nearly equidistant brown-tipped oblique costal dashes 
beyond the middle, the third extended as a brown line to below the 
upper radial vein, where it is abruptly angulated, and runs inwards 
obliquely almost to the second median branch, below the angle, 
however, it is indistinct ; the fourth costal dash is united to a fifth, 
but reversed, dash immediately beyond it ; a subapical grey and 
golden spot crossed by the line from the third costal dash, and 
marked externally with two connected black dots ; an undulated 
narrow grey external border with dusky inner edge, in certain 
hghts slightly shot with golden ; fringe golden ; outer margin of 
secondaries tinted with golden ; head and collar ochreous ; wings 
below satiny white, slightly tinted with golden ochraceous, 
especially towards costal and external margins; primaries with 
two black costal dots beyond the middle ; body pearl-white, legs 
more or less ochraceous. Expanse of wings, 18 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
HELIOTHIDiE. 
Heliothis, Guenee. 
41. Heliotlds ahcrrans, n. s. 
Not very near to any known species ; primaries whity brown, 
with faint greyish indications of bands formed somewhat as in 
H. armigcra; blackish indications of a subbasal acutely zigzag 
406 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 
line ; two dusky spots placed obliquely at the end of the cell 
(indicating the reniform spot) ; an angulated series of short longi- 
tudinal black dashes across the disc, and a marginal series of black 
dots ; secondaries greyish white, with a broad external grey border, 
upon which is the usual oval whitish spot ; fringe cream-coloured, 
spotted with grey at apex ; body greyish white ; primaries below 
whity brown, with two spots in the cell and an arched band beyond 
it grey ; secondaries and body below cream-coloured. Expanse of 
wings, 28 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
Canthylidia, n. g. 
Probably nearest to Heliocheilus, but with more nearly the 
general aspect of Heliothis or Leucania, especially in the form of 
the wings ; the primaries, however, have a swelling upon the costal 
margin beyond the middle, and the body is as slender as in the 
genus Micardia (Leucanidce) ; primaries with the discoidal cell 
extending to beyond the middle of the wing ; costal vein termi- 
nating in the costal swelling ; subcostal emitting its first branch at 
some distance beyond the end of the cell, and the four others 
beyond it, the second and fifth fi'om opposite sides of the vein, and 
the third and fourth as an apical furca ; radials emitted from 
extremity of cell, not from the angles, lower radial emitting a 
recurrent vein through the cell to the base, the second and thhd 
median branches and lower radial about equally distant from one 
another at origin ; secondaries with slightly sinuous costal vein 
extending to apex ; discoidal cell reaching to about the middle of 
the wing ; subcostals emitted from one point at the anterior angle 
of the cell, and the second and third medians from the posterior 
angle ; disco-cellulars forming a regular concave arc, from the 
centre of which the radial is emitted ; first median branch emitted 
near the end of the cell ; body rather slender ; palpi slender, 
porrected. 
42. Canthylidia pallida, n. s. 
Satiny whity brown, slightly darker towards the external borders 
of the wings, especially of the secondaries, which also show a faint 
indication of 'a disco-cellular spot ; under sm-face cream-coloured ; 
primaries with the disc shghtly greyish. Expanse of wings, 
2G mm. 
Gayndah. 
The absence of the post-discoidal cell in the primaries 
proves this to belong to the lldiuUudce, and not the 
Lcucaniidce. 
Heterocera from tJie Australian Iicyiuit. 407 
Plusiodonta, Guenee. 
43. Plusiodonta arctiijcnnis, n. s. 
(? . General coloration of P. thoincv, Guenee, from Haiti, but 
the metallic markings more golden, as in P. chalcitoides, from 
Java, with which it also agrees in having metallic markings near 
external angle of primaries ; it differs from all the described 
species in its narrower wmgs ; primaries reddish "brown, more 
ohvacaous upon the central area, tinted with lilac at base, centre 
of costa upon the reniform spot, and along the internal border of 
the discal line ; ordinary lines blackish, the external line double ; 
pattern nearly as in P. chalcitoides, the subbasal metallic patch 
brassy mottled with ferruginous; that at external angle sharply 
defined, quadrate, brassy, with the central ferruginous mottling 
flecked with gold ; subapical biangulated fascia golden mottled 
with ferruginous; secondaries fuliginous-brown, getting whitish 
towards base ; fringe tipped with sordid white ; thorax chocolate- 
brown ; head blackish ; abdomen fuliginous, whitish at base and 
sides ; under surface pale shining fuliginous greyish with bronze- 
brown reflections. Expanse of wings, 32 mm. 
Sydney. 
GONOPTEBIDiE. 
Gonitis, Guenee. 
44. Gonitis samoana, n. s. 
Nearest to G. involuta of Ceylon ; primaries golden or cupreous- 
brown, glossed with pale lilacine-piuk, especially upon the median 
vein and its branches and on the costal area at apex ; ordinary 
Hues dark brown, less irregular than usual ; outer or discal line 
externally edged with whitish, straight from inner margin to cell ; 
external margin dark brown ; orbicular spot represented by a white 
dot; reniform spot by two whitish-edged black dots placed obliquely 
at end of cell; secondaries pale dove-brown, whitish at base of 
costa ; fringe white-tipped ; thorax foxy brown ; abdomen dove- 
brown, slightly reddish at base ; primaries below grey, with a rosy 
cupreous gloss ; costal border sparsely whitish-speckled to beyond 
the cell, where the white speckling suddenly becomes dense, and 
forms a cuneiform apical patch separated by an oblique line from 
the remainder of the border ; internal border creamy white ; disc 
slightly and indistinctly striated with ash-grey ; fringe whitish- 
tipped, black-dotted below the angle ; secondaries with the costal 
half and external border almost to anal angle grey, with a rosy 
cupreous gloss ; iuteruo-median area creamy white ; fringe whitish, 
traversed by a bronze-brown stripe; apical area iudisiinclly striated 
408 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lejndoptera- 
witli pale yellowish scales, making the apical third abruptly paler 
than the remainder of the dark portion of the wing; pectus 
whitish, tinted with foxy red ; venter greyish chocolate. Expanse 
of wings, 35 mm. 
Samoa Islands. 
45. Gonitis vitiensis, n. s. 
5 . Primaries above reddish chocolate or coffee-brown, trans- 
versely mottled with darker brown and black ; inner line more or 
less abbreviated, only visible below the cell ; outer line biangulated, 
forming a simple rectangular zigzag; both lines dark brown; 
a diffused discal whitish-cinereous belt bounding the outer line 
externally ; a subapical subsigmoidal line immediately beyond the 
whitish band ; external margin blackish ; discoidal spots barely 
visible, the orbicular spot indicated by a white point, and the reni- 
form by two black dots ; secondaries fuliginous-grey, gradually 
paler towards base ; fringe of the outer margin with a slender white 
basal line, of abdominal margin wholly white ; thorax red-brown, 
abdomen fuhginous-grey ; under surface nearly as in the preceding 
species, but without the whitish apical costal patch. Expanse of 
wings, 36 mm. 
Viti Islands. 
Var. ? . Darker than the type, and without any whitish band 
across the primaries. Expanse of wings, 36 mm. 
Viti Islands. 
46. Gonitis vulpina, n. s. 
Primaries above bright foxy red, decidedly brighter than the 
allied G. revocans of Australia, the lines across the wings similar 
in form, excepting that the central line is abruptly elbowed out- 
wards from submedian vein, and that all the lines are a little better 
defined ; orbicular spot prominent, small, rounded, creamy white ; 
reniform spot represented by two small rounded grey spots ; 
secondaries creamy whitish, with the veins and a broad external 
border dull rose-red or pale vinoiis ; thorax bright foxy red, almost 
orange ; abdomen whitish, banded with pale fuscous, slightly 
tinted with vinous at anal extremity ; primaries below silvery 
whitish, washed with flesh-tint excepting along internal area, a 
diffused patch of dull rose-red covering the discoidal area ; a white- 
edged oblique vinous line crossing the disc ; apical border golden 
brown, fringe darker brown ; secondaries sericeous-white, with the 
costal area broadly irrorated with dull rose-colour ; a darker 
Heterocern from the Austrnlian Re<]ion. 409 
bisinnated siibapical line ; pectus white, paljai and lef:;s varied with 
foxy orange and dark vinous ; tarsi brown banded with white ; 
venter white at base, but with lateral dull rose-coloured tufts ; 
remainder of venter pale flesh-brown, washed in front with ochreous. 
Expanse of wings, 49 mm. 
Viti Islands. 
47. Gonitis xanthocliroa, n. s. 
Allied to G. xirivata from Shanghai ; primaries ochreous, crossed 
by four irregularly dentate-sinuate more or less diffused red-brown 
stripes of the usual character ; an abbreviated dentate-sinuate 
blackish line from costa between the third and fourth stripe ; 
orbicular spot small, white, with red-brown border ; reniform spot 
red-brown, bounded externally by the third stripe ; costal and 
external borders diffused, pale olivaceous ; secondaries rosy ferru- 
ginous, paler towards the base ; fringe whitish ; thorax ochraceous ; 
abdomen pale flesh-brown ; primaries below dull rose-pink, with 
the external border creamy yellowish, broadly suffused from apex 
to below the marginal angle with testaceous ; fringe brown ; an 
internally diffused subapical costal triangular brown spot, bounded 
externally by an oblique abbreviated darker brown zigzag line ; an 
abbreviated arched line from costa beyond the cell ; inner border 
cream-coloured ; secondaries cream-coloured, with rose-tinted 
costal third, crossed beyond the cell by an arched brown line ; 
body below creamy ochraceous, with the front of pectus, legs, and 
venter ochreous ; under surface of legs white. Expanse of wings, 
50 mm. 
Vanua Levu. 
POLYDESMID^. 
EUEYTHMUS, n. g. 
Allied to Diatenes, but reminding one rather of Bryoyhlla', 
costal vein of primaries extending to about the apical fourth of 
costa ; subcostal five-bi-anched ; first branch emitted at a con- 
siderable distance before the end of the cell, second branch emitted 
at a short distance before the end, united by an oblique cross-vein 
to the third branch, which is emitted fi'om the anterior angle of 
the cell, giving off the fifth branch from its inferior margin at the 
junction of the cross- vein and forking towards apex ; upper radial 
emitted near to anterior angle of the cell, the lower radial near to 
the posterior angle, and equidistant with the second and third 
median branches ; lower disco-cellular veinlet inarched ; costal 
vein of secondaries terminating before the apex ; subcostal 
410 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 
branches forlving from anterior angle of the cell, a slender vein- 
like longitudinal fold passing through the cell to outer margin; 
disco-cellulars transverse, nearly straight ; radial and second and 
third median branches emitted close together at the posterior angle 
of the cell ; body very robust ; palpi long, slender, curving upwards 
to above the level of the head ; posterior femora flattened and 
longitudinally grooved; tibiae broad, flattened, thickly scaled, 
bearing two pairs of unequal divergent spm's. 
48. Eurijthmus hryopldloides, n. s. 
Primaries above pale sandy brownish, irrorated with fuliginous- 
brown, and with longitudinal pale sienna streaks along the veins ; 
markings not unlike those on the primaries of Diatenes gerula, 
dark brown and black ; a dentate-sinuate blackish submarginal 
Une ; fruige greyish, with a series of blackish spots opposite to the 
siuuations of the submarginal line ; secondaries cream-coloured, 
becoming pearl-white at costa ; external border pale bronze-brown, 
diffused, a paler marginal dash near anal angle ; a marginal sub- 
confluent series of dusky lunules ; fringe creamy white ; body above 
whitish, front of thorax and collar irrorated with dark brown 
scales ; under surface pearl-white ; wings sericeous greyish towards 
external borders ; a marginal series of grey-edged white triangular 
spots; primaries with the costal margin black-spotted towards 
apex. Expanse of wings, 28 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
GiRPA, Walker. 
Nearly allied to PoUjdesma, and therefore incorrectly 
referred to the Eefnigiidce. 
49. Girpa maxima, n. s. 
Testaceous ; wings somewhat sericeous ; two brown dots, one 
above the other near the base, a third within the cell beyond these, 
a series across the basal fourth, the lowest of them blackish ; 
reniform spot indicated by pale reddish-brown dots ; an ill-defined 
greyish stripe across the middle, followed by an ill-defined zigzag 
denlated line ; a discal trisinuated subconfliient series of more or 
less triangular pale-centrod ferruginous spots, towards apex passing 
into a cuneiform apical red-brown patch, crossed by a series of 
whitish scales ; external margin and fringe suffused with red- 
brown ; a marginal series of blackish dots ; secondaries similar in 
pattern to the primaries ; head and collar tmted with reddish 
brown ; primaries below greyish, excepting towards outer margin, 
Hcteroccra from ihe Australian Rer/ion. 411 
with a few traces of the markings of the upper surface ; secondaries 
stramineous grey-speckled, crossed by three discal greyish stripes, 
the outermost maciilar and with pale outer edge ; blackish mar- 
ginal dots as above ; body below pale testaceous. Expanse of 
wings, 56 mm. 
Vavao, Friendly Islands. 
50. Girpa carnea, n. s. 
Allied to the preceding species, glossy clay-coloured, with a pink 
tint ; a faintly indicated irregular grey line across the basal fourth 
of the primaries ; a black dot upon the line just below the sub- 
median vein ; two white dots at the end of the cell ; an irregularly 
trisinuated greyish line across the middle of the primaries, 
continued across the basal third of the secondaries ; two parallel 
dentate-sinuate grey lines crossing both wings beyond the middle, 
and followed by a confluent discal feeries of externally white-edged 
orange spots ; a submarginal series of black dots ; under surface 
nearly as in the i)receding species. Expanse of wings, 55 mm. 
Vavao. 
The differences both in ground colour and in the 
details of marking are so great between this and the 
preceding species that they can hardly be conspecific. 
HOMOPTERID^. 
HoMOPTEEA, Boisd. 
51. Ilomoptera cruegeri, n. s. 
Primaries above purplish brown, crossed by numerous blackish- 
edged wavy oblique paler lines; external fourth whity brown, 
crossed near its inner edge by a clay-brown undulated stripe, washed 
vdth ochreous internally ; a darker nebula in the centre of this 
area; base whity brown, traversed by a bisinuated dark brown 
line, and with a costal spot of the same coloiir ; veins on the 
darker area of the wing slaty grey in certain lights ; two dentate- 
sinuate stripes immediately succeeding the ordinary discal line 
also shot with slaty grey ; the two ordinary lines widely separated, 
irregularly dentated, very slender, black ; a slender undulated 
black submarginal line ; external margin and fringe wood-brown 
or brownish testaceous, with darker central stripe bounded by two 
slender sinuous whitish lines, the outer one indistinct ; secondaries 
whity brown ; five or six parallel internally diffused dentated dusky 
stripes with whitish external edges, followed by two slightly sinuous 
412 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 
convergent black lines enclosing a purplish brown stripe ; external 
area purplish brown, with a nebulous blackish spot on the second 
median interspace, external margin and fringe as in primaries ; 
body of different brown shades corresponding with those of the 
primaries; abdomen with three dorsal and two lateral subbasal 
tufts ; under sm'face greyish stone-colour, with faint brassy 
reflections, especially on internal area of jirimaries ; numerous sub- 
parallel slender brown lines, excepting across the basal area ; three 
of these lines, across the disc of secondaries, more strongly defined 
than the others ; a submarginal series of black dots ; fringes tipped 
with reddish brown ; tarsi black, banded with whitish. Expanse 
of wings, 48 mm. 
Gayndah. 
HYPOGEAMMID^. 
Gadirtha, Walker. 
52. Gadirtha pulchra, n. s. 
Primaries above sericeous silver-grey, transversely striated with 
dark gi'ey and black scales ; basal area whitish, bounded by two 
transverse black lines, slightly divergent at costa ; three grey costal 
dashes, the second broad and oblique ; orbicular spot pale sandy 
brownish ; reniform spot large, outlined in black, enclosing, in its 
posterior half, a triangular grey-brown spot; two transverse black 
lines from first median branch to inner margin, the inner line 
throwing off a slender curved line at right angles to join the post- 
median line, the outer line shorter, but also rectangular at its upper 
extremity ; post-median line black, crossing the wing obliquely 
from costa to outer margin near external angle ; a reversed oblique 
black dash from costa almost to the post-median line, incised at its 
extremity, and continued across the disc by a regular zigzag white 
line, the uppermost >-shaped division of which is edged with 
greyish ; a marginal series of subconfluent black crescents ; fringe 
white, spotted with greyish at the base ; secondaries subhyaline 
pearl-white, with the veins and a broad decreasing external border 
greyish brown with golden reflections, fringe piu'e white ; thorax 
ash-grey, the collar crossed in front by a slightly arched slender 
black line ; antennae testaceous ; abdomen silver-grey banded with 
white ; primaries below greyish, becoming white on interno-basal 
area and faintly glossed with gold ; costa creamy white from the 
end of the cell almost to the apex, with four elongate black spots 
on its anterior edge ; a marginal series of small triangular black 
spots ; fringe white, with a double series of greyish spots ; secondaries 
pearl-white ; a large cuneiform diffused costal spot or streak, and 
the external border greyish with gulden reflections ; body below 
Heterocera from the Australian Region. 413 
white, tibiffi (excepting of the posterior pair of legs) crossed above by 
slender curved black lines, tarsi above black. Expanse of wings, 
42 mm. 
Eockhampton. 
This is the most distinctly marked species in the 
genus, in colour and marking not at all unlike Walker's 
genus Calathusa, though different in structure. 
OPHIUSID^. 
PsEUDOPHiA, Guenee. 
53. Pseudophia nehidigera, n. s. 
General coloration and size of P. illunaris of Europe, the 
prevailing tint on the upper surface being pale greyish with a 
creamy whitish subtint ; costal border of primaries faintly shot 
with lilac ; all the markings ill-defined, darkest on costa ; ordinary 
hnes diffused internally, bounded externally by a creamy whitish 
stripe, the inner line at basal fourth, obliiiue, regular ; outer hne 
just beyond external fourth, slightly sinuous, undulated, ohvaceous ; 
traces of a submarginal undulated line, olivaceous in the middle ; 
ordinary spots obsolete ; traces of a very irregular whitish-edged 
dusky hne across the external third ; fringe white, traversed by 
two broad greyish stripes ; secondaries whitish, sordid towards the 
base ; a curved grey litura at end of cell ; a slightly obhque dark 
grey central stripe ; external area dark grey, diffused internally, 
crossed from anal angle nearly to apex by a whitish stripe ; a 
second abbreviated marginal whitish stripe at extremity of radial 
interspaces ; a slender black marginal hne ; a nebulous dusky spot 
just below the middle of the external border, and extending into 
the fringe, which is otherwise creamy white; thorax grey in front, 
whitish behmd ; abdomen whitish, crossed by broad pale greyish 
bands; under surface creamy yellowish; markings similar m all 
the wings, the costal areas grey- speckled ; disco-cellular spots 
narrow, blackish; a dark grey undulated arched post-median 
stripe, not reaching the inner margins, followed by a shghtly 
irregular internally diffused, externally undulated, grey discal 
stripe ; a large diffused apical greyish brown spot, and a second 
similar spot (almost black on the secondaries) just below the middle 
of external border ; a slender undulated blackish marginal line ; 
anterior and middle femora and tibiae grey above. Expanse of 
wings, 38 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1886. PART IV. (DEC.) 2 F 
414 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 
Although this species agrees in its structural details 
with P. iUiiiKiris, the dark nebulous s})ot on the external 
border of the secondaries gives it somewhat the aspect 
of Cerocala. 
Hyp^tra, Guenee. 
54. Hypcetra sordida, n. s. 
Primaries pale greyish brown, slightly suffused with lilacine, 
speckled and transversely striated with blackish grey ; inner and 
central stris indicated by ill-defined wavy blackish squamosa 
stripes ; discoidal spots obsolete ; a clavate black spot below the 
submedian vein at basal third ; a cream-coloured nearly straight 
line crossing the disc at external fourth ; from this line tapering 
ferruginous streaks run outwards along the veins, but they are only 
strongly defined towards apex ; immediately beyond the discal 
line is an interrupted and slightly irregular series of blackish 
spots ; a marginal series of black dots ; fringe whity brown ; 
secondaries whity brown towards base ; crossed beyond the middle 
by a slightly curved internally diffused greyish baud ; external 
border broad, of the same colour, and separated from the post- 
median band by a whity-brown band a little paler than the basal 
area ; a marginal series of blackish dots ; fringe sandy whitish ; 
thorax pale fuliginous-grey ; head and collar darker grey, the 
latter with dark brown borders ; abdomen whity brown ; under 
surface whity brown, costal areas slightly tinted with pale flesh- 
brown ; central area of primaries, a disco-cellular spot, and two 
arched diffused bands on the secondaries, slightly greyish ; palpi 
whity brown internally, dark brown externally. Expanse of wings, 
45 mm. 
Viti Islands. 
Somewhat resembles " Toxocampa orthosioides " of 
Walker from N. Australia ; the latter is, however, 
synonjanous with Pantydia recondita of Walker. 
Hypcetra diffundens, Wlk., is Remiyia virhia, Cram. 
55. Ophiiisa vitiensis, n. s. 
Allied to 0. stuj)osa, Fabr., but differing as follows : — Primaries 
above suffused with lilac, the band before the middle much less 
white and decidedly narrower ; the irregular dark olivaceous belt 
beyond it considerably broader, the second angulation of its outer 
edge much farther from the upper one ; two dark olivaceous spots 
in the sinus between these two angles ; the oblique apical patch 
not externally incised ; the white band across the secondavies only 
Heteroc era from the Australian Region. 415 
indicated by a diffused greyish streak ; a slender abbreviated 
oblique whitish anal stripe, well separated from the greyish patch 
on external border ; the latter suffused with lilacine. Expanse of 
wings, 46 mm, 
Viti Islands. 
EEMIGIID^. 
Eemigia, Giicnee. 
56. Remigia discrepans, n. s. 
2 , Closely allied to R. archesia and B. maycri ; differing in 
the ochraceous clay-colour of the primaries, the costal border and 
basal area alone being slightly suffused with lilacine-grey ; in the 
absence of markings across the centre of these wings, and in the 
inner line being replaced by a slightly inarched abbreviated black- 
brown transverse stripe with whitish internal edge ; secondaries 
almost exactly as in B. archesia ; on the under surface it differs 
fr-om the latter in its sandy yellow instead of reddish ochreous 
colour, in the reduction of the markings on the primaries, and the 
almost total obliteration of those on the secondaries. Expanse of 
wings, 42 mm. 
Viti Islands. 
But for the well-defined blackish bar at the basal third 
of the primaries I should have thought it possible that 
this might be the female of -R. maycri. 
THEEMESIID^. 
Erosia, Guenee. 
57. Erosia stolida, n. s. 
Allied to E. theclata of Africa and Ceylon (female of Dirades 
hinotata) ; differs from both sexes of that species in its superior 
size, considerably paler, silvery greyish coloration ; the markings 
white-edged, but not enclosed by an outer brown line ; the outer 
margin of the primai'ies in the female more irregular than in 
E. theclata. Expanse of wings, 22 — 23 mm. 
Kockhampton. 
The genus Erosia has hitherto been placed among the 
Geometrites, but it has been shown that its true position 
is amongst the Pseudo-Deltoids ; the genus Dirades has 
hitherto been regarded as distinct, but it is now evident 
that it is founded upon the males of certain species of 
Erosia, the sexes of which differ in outline of wings. 
416 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 
HERMINIID^. 
BocANA, Walk. 
58. Bocana sypnoides, n. s. 
5 . Aspect of many species of Sypna ; primaries purplish 
brown, almost black ; an ill-defined dentated black line across the 
basal fourth ; reniform spot angular, golden testaceous, enclosing a 
black litura ; two parallel widely sinuated and dentated externally 
pale-edged black discal lines, the external dentations dotted with 
whitish at their apices ; a black marginal line dotted with pale 
ochreous ; fringe blackish, varied along its outer edge with whitish ; 
secondaries smoky brown ; two internally diffused blackish stripes 
from abdominal margin, not reaching the costa, dentated and 
partly edged with whitish externally; a marginal series of pale 
ochreous dots ; fringe spotted at the base with blackish ; thorax 
dark purplish brown, the head and collar blackish ; abdomen dark 
smoky brown, slightly paler at the sides and base ; wings below 
smoky brown, crossed by two darker diffused discal stripes, the 
outer one with pale external border ; a sprinkling of whitish scales 
on the costal areas ; a slender blackish marginal line, interrupted 
at the extremities of the veins by testaceous dots ; secondaries 
with a blackish disco-cellular litura ; palpi dark brown, the scales 
on the inner surface tipped with ochreous; body below smoky 
brown, the legs dark brown, with ochreous spots at the extremities 
of the joints. Expanse of wings, 42 mm. 
Viti Islands. 
Allied to B. manifestalis, which ranges from Ceylon to 
Fiji. 
LOPHOCOLEUS, n. g. 
Form and iieuration almost exactly as in Edesscna, from which 
genus it is, however, at once distinguished by the long tapering 
broadly pectinated antennte, in which character it agrees with 
Bocana ; from the latter it differs in form of wing, and from both 
genera in the broad flattened and coarsely scaled palpi and the 
structure of the front legs, the femora being armed at their distal 
extremity by a strong curved process thicker than the tibia, and 
extending almost to the extremity of the tarsus, its lower surface 
clothed with long silky hairs ; thus, at first sight, the leg appears 
to be double from the knee-joint. 
59. LopUocolcus mirahilis, n. s. 
(J . Primaries above dark smoky brown ; the two ordinary 
lines indistinct, that at basal third represented by an unequally 
Heterocera from the AustraUaii Region. 417 
trisinixated dusky line from subcostal vein to inner margin ; that at 
external third by a transverse series of greyish lunules with dusky 
inner edges (this series is inangulated or elbowed at the first 
median branch) ; a small whitish spot at the end of the cell, and a 
series of squamose whitish dots parallel to the outer margin ; a 
series of minute whitish marginal points ; outer margin rather 
acute and subfalcate at apex, and subangulated at the extremity of 
the second median branch ; secondaries paler than the primaries, 
especially towards costa ; fringe with an interrupted whitish basal 
line ; thorax dark smoky brown, black-speckled ; abdomen a little 
paler than the thorax; under surface greyish brown; primaries 
with grey internal border ; secondaries with a dusky disco-cellular 
lunule and a diffused sinuous discal stripe ; anterior legs armed 
with a strong curved process, clothed below with long silky 
stramineous hair. Expanse of wings, 47 mm. 
Viti Islands. 
60. Lophocolcns i astrifer, n. s. 
5 . Much like Bocana manifestalis in colour and pattern, but 
with the form of the preceding species ; upper surface dark 
purplish brown, primaries with the two ordinary dentate-sinuate 
black lines ; a sinuous discal series of black-edged cream-coloured 
dots, terminating in a spot of this colour at inner margin; fringe 
with a whitish basal line ; secondaries crossed in the middle by a 
single black Hne ; a discal series of black-edged cream-coloured 
dots, confluent towards the abdominal margin ; fringe with a 
whitish basal line ; head and thorax dark chocolate-brown, abdo- 
men paler, purplish brown ; wings below pale brownish, densely 
irrorated with blackish scales; costal areas washed with lilacine ; 
all the wings with two black discoidal spots ; a black irregularly 
dentated line beyond the middle ; an imperfect dark brown discal 
band enclosing a series of pale spots ; a slender wavy cream- 
coloured line at the base of the fringe ; primaries with a subapical 
greenish grey patch ; secondaries with an apical patch of the same 
colour; body below greyish, legs purplish brown. Expanse of 
wings, 38 mm. 
Viti Islands. 
From the form of the wings this species appears to 
be a Lophocoleus, but unfortunately the palpi and anterior 
legs of the type are missTng. 
418 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptei'a- 
MatjEOMeea, n. g. 
Somewhat allied to Bivula ; primaries with the costal margin 
nearly straight, slightly incurved in the middle ; outer margin 
straight to lower radial vein, then gradually arched to external 
angle ; inner margin nearly straight, excepting at base, where it 
curves inwards ; secondaries rather small, subpyriform, the costal 
margin nearly straight ; costal vein of primaries extending to about 
the apical third of costa, subcostal five-branched, emitting its first 
branch before the end of the cell, second at some distance beyond 
the cell, third and fourth branches forking to apex, fifth emitted 
from the anterior angle of the cell ; radials emitted from the disco- 
cellulars near the anterior and posterior angles of the cell, second 
and third median branches and lower radial about equidistant at 
their origins ; a small flattened tuft of hair from behind the base 
of the median vein du'ected forward over the base of the cell ; 
subcostal of secondaries forking from the anterior angle of the ceU ; 
upper disco-cellular long, arched ; lower disco-cellular very short 
and transverse, the radial and the second and third median 
branches being emitted near together and at equal distances apart ; 
body very robust, palpi of male moderately long, triangular, com- 
pressed, coarsely scaled, rather obtuse at apex; palpi of female 
considerably longer and decidedly more acuminate ; antennae of 
male delicately ciliated to the tip, of the female somewhat flattened, 
submoniliform, and simple ; legs with the femora grooved, the 
tibifE flattened, hinged with long hair-scales in the male. 
61. Mataomera duhia, n. s. 
Primaries pale reddish brown ; central belt represented by two 
arched white lines ; the costa speckled with slaty gi'ey up to the 
second line ; a white-dotted black spot at the end of the cell, 
followed by slaty grey scales (in continuation of the costal irroration) 
as far as the second white line ; costal margin from the central belt 
almost to the apex ochreous, the subcostal area whitish ; a sub- 
marginal series of black spots white-bordered internally and con- 
fluent towards apex ; an apical white point ; fringe cupreous-red 
towards apex ; secondaries whity brown, becoming bronze-brown 
towards anal angle ; thorax ash-grey, white in front ; head and 
abdomen whity brown ; antenna) yellowish ; under sm-face sericeous- 
white, costal areas of the wings speckled with pale brown ; fringe 
of primaries red-brown towards apex ; legs pearl-white. Expanse 
of wings, 18 mm. 
Peak Downs and Gayndah. 
Heterocera from the Australiaii licfiioii. 419 
EULOCASTKA, 11. g. 
Nearest to Locastra, of tlie same general form, though with the 
aspect of the Lithosiid genus Etitane ; primaries with the costal 
vein extending nearly to apex ; subcostal with five branches, the 
first branch emitted before the end of the cell, the second emitted 
beyond tlie cell, united to the third by a short cross vein so as to 
form a narrow post-discoidal cell, the third and fourth forming a 
short fork to apex, the fifth emitted from the inferior margin of the 
third at the extremity of the post-discoidal cell ; upper radial 
emitted near to the anterior angle of the cell, lower radial forming 
a fourth median branch (the lower disco-cellular being absent) 
emitted from the posterior angle of the cell and equidistant with 
the second and third median branches ; base of the wings below 
clothed with long hair-scales ; secondaries with the costal and 
subcostal veins coalescing towards the base, the two subcostal 
branches emitted at about the middle of the wing ; discnidal cell 
open, the upper disco-cellular veinlet being absent ; radial emitted 
rather near to the posterior angle of the ceil ; second and thkd 
median branches emitted fi-om one point at the posterior angle ; 
body rather robust, the thorax rounded, the head twice as broad as 
long ; antennae cylindrical, tapering, with very short fine ciliations ; 
palpi long, thick, subcylindrical, shghtly compressed, upcurved; 
legs rather long and thick, the middle tibiie fringed with rather 
long hair-scales. 
62. Eiilocastra fasciata , n. s. 
^ . Primaries above shining silvery white ; the base, an 
irregular transverse band just before the middle, a second from 
costa near apex to external angle, a spot just above the middle of 
external border, and a second at external angle, black with bronze- 
brown reflections ; secondaries sericeous-stramineous, with a 
brownish apical spot ; thorax bronze-brown, collar cupreous ; 
tegulae clothed with metallic cupreous and blue scales ; head and 
abdomen pale stramineous; under surface pale shining golden 
stramineous, primaries with the discoidal area, a discal band as 
above, but enclosing three subcostal dots of the ground colour and 
a few scales on the fringe blackish; secondaries with an abbre- 
viated squamose dash from the centre of costal margin to the end 
of cell and a slightly longer tapering subapical dash blackish ; legs 
barred with black. Expanse of wings, 20 mm. 
Sydney. 
Although this species in general appearance, and in 
420 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 
tbe supplementary cell in the neuration of its primaries, 
corresponds with the LithosiidcB, it differs entirely in its 
very characteristic palpi : a comparison of its structure 
with that of Locastra shows it to be evidently allied to 
that genus. 
SICULID^. 
MiCEoscA, Butler. 
63. Microsca plagifera, n. s. 
Fiery cupreous, indistinctly speckled and striated with earthy 
greyish ; primaries with an unequally subquadi'ate silver patch, 
through the centre of which runs a golden reticulated bar ; wings 
below paler than above, sericeous-red, reticulated with dark grey ; 
primaries with the basi-costal area and the centre of disc earthy 
greyish ; patch of upper surface pearly, corrugated, the reticulated 
band dark ochraceous ; body below testaceous ; anterior legs 
brownish, with testaceous bands. Expanse of wings, 25 mm. 
Tonga Island. 
Somewhat resembles Felder's Thcrmesia ? fenestrina, 
which probably is not a Thermesia. 
Pharambara, Walk. 
64. Pharambara reticulata, n. s. 
$ . Not unlike the female of P. micacealis ; golden testaceous, 
slightly rosy towards outer margins ; with numerous darker reticu- 
lations which tend to form lines in some instances, only one of 
these Imes, however, is at all pronounced, forming a slightly 
sinuous submarginal line across the primaries ; a slender marginal 
black line along the costa, interrupted by seven or eight minute 
black-edged, yellowish spots ; a series of extremely minute black 
points near outer margin, the third from costa continued obliquely 
downwards as a slender abbreviated zigzag line ; fringes tipped 
with whitish ; under surface pale shining testaceous, with the body 
and internal areas of the wings almost cream-coloiu-ed, but the 
apical areas washed with reddish golden ; reticulations more 
strongly defined than above, golden cupreous, some of them 
expanded into augulated stripes enclosing black dots and striae ; 
three of these stripes cross the primaries, the central one united 
to a patch of the same colour, dotted with black and silver at the 
end of the cell ; the base of the cell, costal vein, and median vein 
are also defined by metallic silvery and opaline scales ; an oblique 
subapical black line ; legs clay-coloured or reddish ochraceous ; 
Hetcrocera J'roHi tlie Australian Region. 421 
posterior tarsi banded with silvery whitish. Expanse of wings, 
20 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
ENNYCHIID^. 
Graphicopoda, n. g. 
Seems to come nearest to Emiychia, the wings of the same 
form ; costal vein of primaries terminating at about second third of 
the margin ; subcostal five-branched, the first branch emitted before 
the end of the cell, the second, third, and fourth form a long foot- 
stalk, the second and third running to costa near apex and the 
fourth to apex, the fifth emitted from the inferior margin of tlie 
same footstalk just beyond the cell ; radials emitted from opposite 
angles of the cell, the disco-cellular being obsolete ; secondaries 
with the costal vein thickened towards the base ; forked at some 
distance beyond the cell, the subcostal simple, free, tapering to a 
fine point below the costal vein but not passing into it, met by an 
arched line of colour, which probably indicates the former existence 
of a disco-cellular (or transverse) vein, now obsolete ; radial 
forming a fourth median branch ; body tolerably slender, extending 
only a short distance beyond the secondaries ; antennae with large 
and somewhat cuneiform basal joint, otherwise thick, especially 
towards the middle, sparsely and delicately pilose; j)alpi straight, 
thick, rather long, porrect, coarsely scaled, the terminal joint 
rather short and acute ; legs rather long, compressed, the femora 
longitudinally deeply grooved, anterior femora with a thick tuft of 
hair towards the distal extremity, which curls forwards over the 
knees and projects from the inner surface ; anterior tibiae short, 
bearing a pencil of hairs, which is emitted below the knee and lies 
flat below the joint; tarsi long; second pair of tibiae bearing a 
terminal spur, as long as the first tarsal joint, and a long smooth 
pencil of gradually expanded hair-scales, which almost conceals 
the spur when viewed from the side ; the distal extremity of the 
tibial joint is also oblique and fringed ; tibiae of last pair of legs 
bearing the usual two pairs of unequal spurs. 
65. Gra2)hicopoda hccate, n. s. 
Wings above pitchy black-brown ; the isrimaries with two ill- 
defined basal spots and a third spot below the origin of the first 
median branch of grey, changing in certain lights to opaline-lilac ; 
secondaries with the basi-costal area whitish ; body above greyish 
brown ; wings below blackish piceous, with the basal third whity 
brown, showing two blackish lunate spots towards the extremities 
422 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 
of the discoidal areas ; interno-basal area of primaries greenish 
opaline in certain lights ; body below and legs sordid whitish or 
pale whity brown. Expanse of wings, 21 mm. 
Tonga Island (Friendly Islands). 
HYDEOCAMPID^. 
PSEUDEPHYRA, n. g. 
Apparently nearest to Homojiliysa, though the palpi differ 
considerably ; wings broad, having the general aspect of the 
Geometrid genus Ephyra, especially of E. splendens : very like 
HoTnophysa in neuration ; body very robust, not extending beyond 
the secondaries ; palpi porrected, large, compressed, expanded in 
front by a long fringe along the anterior surface, the terminal joint 
small and directed slightly downwards so that the anterior, or 
more strictly speaking, inferior, margin of the palpus is elongate 
sigmoidal ; antennae filiform, extending to beyond the middle of 
the wing ; legs moderately long, stout, and somewhat compressed. 
66. Pseudephyra straminea, n. s. 
Bright straw-yellow ; primaries with a subbasal reddish ochreous 
baftd, bounded by a metallic leaden line and sprinkled with metallic 
scales ; reniform spot indicated by two plumbageous dots connected 
by short ochreous lines; an angulated black-bordered reddish 
ochreous discal band, bounded internally by a plumbageous line of 
scales ; external margin irregularly bordered with reddish ochreous ; 
secondaries with a dot at the end of the cell, and the external 
two-fifths reddish ochreous, the latter crossed by a discal band 
similar to that on the primaries ; a line of jjlumbageous scales close 
to outer margin ; abdomen reddish ochreous crossed by slender 
black lines ; under surface pale stramineous ; the wings crossed by 
arched discal blackish bands, which do not reach the margins. 
Expanse of wings, 19 mm. 
Var. The reddish ochreous spots and bands replaced by black 
spots and broader greyish brown bands mottled with black ; the 
plumbageovis scales remaining. Expanse of wings, 18 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
NiPHADAZA, n. g. 
Apparently nearest to Oligostiyma ; wings narrow, elongated, 
acute at apex ; primaries with the outer margin very oblique ; 
costal margin nearly straight, costal vein extending to about the 
apical third of costa ; subcostal five-branched, emitting its first 
two branches before the end of the cell, its third just before the 
Heteroccra Jrom the Australian Region. 423 
apex, its fourth running to the apex, fifth b^--^\^^\\*^Yrn'^ 
near the base of the long footstalk, which bears the third and 
fourth branches, just beyond the cell ; upper radial vem emi ted 
from the anterior angle, and lower radial from the postenor angle 
of the cell; disco-cellular veinlet angulated; the three median 
branches well separated from each other at their origins ; secondaries 
with the costal margin nearly straight, outer margm slightly 
arched, abdominal margin short and nearly straight ; costa and 
subcostal veins contiguous to basal fourth, where they coalesce, 
but separate again just before the middle of the wmg the costal vein 
forming a long furca to apex and the subcostal continuing stiaight 
on to the outer margin ; disco-cellular veinlet absent, the cell con- 
sequently open, and the radial emitted as a fourth median branch 
palpi moderately long, directed forwards so as to show almost then 
entire length in front of the head; antennae short, slender, monih- 
form, finely penicillated ; thorax robust, projecting well m front of 
the wings; tegute large, extending to beyond the mesothorax; 
legs thick (both legs and abdomen broken short oif m the type). 
67. Niphadaza hicolor, n. s. 
Primaries above rust-red ; the base, an externally angulated band 
across the basal third, a small spot near the base of the lower 
radial interspace, a large apical costal spot, separated by a curved 
stripe of the ground colour from an internally somewhat conical 
external border (the centre of which is divided again by a forked 
line of the ground colour) snow-white; secondaries snow-white 
with a large subbasal interno-median spot, a broad discal band 
with arched outer edge and a small oblique spot near the nnddle o 
the outer margin, rust-red ; antenna, dark ferruginous banded wit 
white; body snow-white, collar with a ferruginous spot on each 
side thorax with darker red-brown scales at the sides; primaries 
below pale golden, with white markings almost as above, 
setndaiies wliite, with a narrow difiused golden d.scal streak; 
body white. Expanse of wings, 24 mm. 
Yiti Islands. 
Oligostigma, Gnence. 
68. OUfjostiqma pallida, n. s. 
Chalky white; primaries sparsely irrorated with ^laik brown 
scales to external third, crossed at basal two-sevenths by an elbow d 
pale ochreous band; a second widely bisinuated ochreous band 
L-ossmg the wing obliquely beyond the middle ; a third band, tw c 
interrupted and with dusky zigzag external edge near to outei 
424 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptcra- 
margin ; a submarginal series of short black dashes followed by a 
narrow testaceous stripe, and a marginal series of black dots ; 
fringe slightly testaceous ; an oblique blackish dash upon the first 
ochreous band just below the median vein, and an imperfect 
annular blackish spot at the end of the cell ; secondaries crossed 
near the base by an oblique blackish-speckled pale ochreous line ; 
a second line crossing the middle of the wing from abdominal 
margin to costa, emitting a branch inwards from the end of the 
cell to the costa nearer the base; a dusky-edged pale ochreous 
band crossing the disc, attenuated and elbowed towards the costa ; 
an undulated submarginal blackish line followed by a testaceous 
line and a marginal series of black dots ; fringe tinted with 
testaceous; markings below, excepting along the outer margins, 
very indistinct. Expanse of wings, 23 mm. 
Kockhampton. 
ASOPIID^. 
EiNECERA, Butler. 
69. Rinecera nigrescens, n. s. 
Allied to B. mirahilis ; purplish black ; primaries crossed at 
basal fourth by an irregularly angulated whitish line ; a second 
very indistinct and very irregular zigzag line from costa to first 
median branch, along which it runs inwards for some distance, and 
then turns abruptly at a right angle and passes with two alternate 
angles to inner margin ; discoidal spots represented by two little 
white dashes ; secondaries crossed by two whitish lines, the first 
interrupted by a white dot at the end of the cell, the second 
running from about the middle of the outer margin to the costa ; 
both lines ill-defined in the male ; wings below nearly as above, 
but the internal borders sericeous- whitish ; body below sordid 
white. Expanse of wings : male, 23 mm. ; female, 20 mm. 
Viti Islands. 
The species is larger and darker than R. mirahilis, and 
differs in many details of colouring ; both evidently 
differ structurally from Ceratoclasis burbicornis, Feld. 
HOEMATHOLEPIS, n. g. 
Allied to Bineccra ; wings elongated ; primaries with the costa 
deeply grooved below to a little before the middle, where the costal 
vein bends somewhat inwards before its termination ; subcostal 
vein apparently five-branched ;- remaining veins as in Niphadaza ; 
- Owing to the folding over of the costal border in the type these 
branches are ditficult to follow, but tlicy appear to be similar 
Heteroc era from the Australian Region. 425 
a thick tuft of projecting hair emitted from the middle of the 
internal border on the under surface of the primaries ; body much 
elongated, antennae much elongated, extending to about the fourth 
fifth of costa of primaries, the basal joint large, cylindrical ; 
following joints short, somewhat flattened, tapering, knotted above 
the middle, and emitting a tuft of long clubbed scales, which 
project forwards and slightly upwards to the distal fourth ; palpi 
long, curved, porrected ; second joint bearing a long pencil of 
hairs above and a shorter one below the terminal joint (giving the 
appearance of three pairs of palpi from one base ; legs long and 
rather slender, femora grooved ; anterior and middle tibiae short, 
with an appressed terminally fringed spur emitted from its inferior 
margin and running forwards to the extremity of the joint ; 
posterior tibite with three long slender spurs, the first projecting 
from near the middle, and the two others from the distal extremity 
of the joint. 
70. Hormatholepis erehina, n. s. 
Dark smoky grey, with slight purplish and bronze reflections, 
the primaries almost crossed by two irregular blackish bands, the 
first across the basal third, and the second just beyond the middle ; 
both of these bands have zigzag external edges ; wings below 
darker than above. Expanse of wings, 28 mm. 
Viti Islands. 
AsopiA, Guenee. 
71. Asopia leonina, n. s. 
Primaries above bright straw-yellow, with purple-glossed black 
markings, almost exactly as in Dichom-ocis frenatalis of Lederer, 
as follows : an arched line across the base ; a bismuated line, 
angulated upon the median vein before the middle ; an oblique 
reniform spot, enclosing two whitish dots, at the end of the cell ; 
a sinuous line across the disc, bending inwards so as to touch the 
posterior extremity of the reniform spot, and a marginal line, 
emitting a streak above its centre to join the discal line, and broken 
up into spots towards external angle ; fringe whitish, spotted with 
grey ; secondaries distinctly paler, cream-coloured shot with 
stramineous, the disc crossed by an abbreviated and slightly 
tapering grey stripe ; an external grey border confined to apex and 
a continuous black marginal line ; fringe spotted with blackish ; 
front of thorax and centre of abdomen bright straw-yellow ; the 
latter with dorsal blackish dots ; remainder of body above shining 
to those of Niphadaza (Hydrocampidcs) : the wings are delicate, 
and will not bear much damping with benzine. 
426 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 
cream-eolour ; anal sfigment tipped and spotted with grey ; wings 
below cream-coloured, sericeous, with stramineous reflections ; 
markings on primaries less strongly defined than above ; fringe 
whitish, spotted with grey ; body below sericeous, cream-coloured. 
Expanse of wings, 17 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
Leucophotis, n. g. 
Allied to Agathodes {A. ostentalis) ; with similar neuration ; 
style of coloration of Leucinodes ; body very robust, palpi erect, 
one-third of their length bemg visible above the toji of the head, 
compressed, but not so broad as in Agathodes, and with prominent 
terminal joint ; antenna extending to about second third of 
primaries, serrated and finely penicillated along their inner or 
anterior surface ; tegulae large, expanded, almost entirely covering 
the thorax, abdomen extending about half its length beyond the 
secondaries, dorsally keeled and tufted, and with five tufts on each 
side ; wings broad, as in Margarodcs. 
72. Leucophotis pulchra, n. s. 
Wings semitransparent, yellowish ; basi-internal area of pri- 
maries above clay-coloured, crossed by two subbasal dull blackish 
bars, shot with steel-blue ; a third oblique interrupted blackish bar 
running from the middle of the inner margin to the end of the 
cell ; discoidal spots near together, annular, ferruginous, with 
yellowish centres ; an irregular subapical blue-black patch, edged 
internally by a slender white line, but externally bounded by a 
diffused ferruginous border; an indistinct undulated ferruginous 
and ochreous submarginal line curving inwards towards costa ; 
secondaries with a rather broad abbreviated oblique band of blue- 
black, with ferruginous edges, from the middle of the radial 
interspace across the end of the cell to the submedian vein, up 
which it runs almost to the base, a subbasal brown spot ; an 
angular subapical bhie-glossed blackish patch bordered externally 
with reddish ochraceous, and partly confluent with an irregularly 
sinuated ochreous submarginal line ; head above yellow, banded 
with ferruginous ; antennae ferruginous ; collar reddish testaceous ; 
tegulaj pale greyish brown, opaline in certain lights; abdomen 
greyish brown, reddish at the base ; lateral tufts with a plumbageous 
gloss ; under surface sericeous cream-colour ; the discs of the wings 
semitransparent ; an abbreviated transverse black bar from the cell 
almost to tlie inner margin in all the wings, and the subapical 
angulated black patches of the upper surface ; front pair of legs 
Heterocera from the Australian Region. 427 
blackish above ; venter with a central longitudinal clay-coloured 
line. Expanse of wings, 49 mm. 
Viti Islands. 
This is one of the largest, and at the same time 
strikingly coloured, of the Pijrales. 
Endotricha, Zell. 
73. Endotricha annuligera, n. s. 
General appearance of Locastra (L. arnica and alUes) ; primaries 
greyish brown, with the central third creamy, subhyahne, bounded 
by the usual lines, which are black ; the outer line broken up into 
spots and of the usual angulated form ; four black annular costal 
markings upon the central area ; a small cuneiform costal cream- 
coloured spot beyond the outer line, in continuation of the central 
belt; reniform spot represented by a curved clavate brownish 
outline ; fringe micaceous-grey, with a basal black-spotted cream- 
coloured line ; secondaries cream-coloured, with the external third 
irregularly grey-brown ; ft-inge as in the primaries ; head and 
front of thorax brown, mottled with whitish and pale testaceous ; 
back of thorax white; abdomen white, with a large slightly 
greyish scutiform central patch, partly margined and dotted with 
black-brown; primaries with markings as above, but the black 
lines on the primaries replaced by grey, and the basal area cream- 
coloured ; body below creamy white. Expanse of wings, 17 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
Though much unlike the known species of Endotricha 
in colonition, this species appears to belong to that 
genus. 
74. Endotricha obscura, n. s. 
5. Nearest to E. docilisalis; considerably smaller, with 
differently coloured fringes and differently formed lines across the 
secondaries on the under surface; upper surface shining dark 
lilacine-grey, costa of primaries golden brown, with a very slender 
black edge dotted with yellow; a faintly indicated arched line 
across the basal third; a slender slaty grey submarginal line, 
internally white-edged at costa; fringe bright golden chrome- 
yellow tipped with silvery white, replaced by shining cupreous 
tipped with lilacine at apex, in tlie middle and at external angle, the 
two latter patches of deeper colour being moreover connected by a 
partly confluent series of plum-coloured dots near the base of the 
fringe ; SGCondaries with pearl-white costal area ; faint indications 
428 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 
of two grey-edged pale lines across the wings ; fringe silvery white, 
golden cupreous, spotted with plum-coloured lunules at the base ; 
head, collar, and tegula golden brown ; thorax and abdomen 
lilacine greyish ; primaries below smoky grey, shot with lilacine ; 
internal area white ; costal margin black, spotted with yellowish ; 
costal area golden towards apex.; a biangulated white line towards 
outer margin, its costal third black-edged externally ; a black 
marginal line ; fringe nearly as above ; secondaries rosy lilacine, 
whitish on the basi-abdominal area; an augulated grey -brown 
stripe at basal third, and a lunule of the same colour at the end of 
the cell ; a broad tapermg brown stripe enclosing a pink undulated 
line from costa to anal angle ; a partly confluent marginal series of 
black dashes ; fringe almost as above ; body below dull rose- 
coloured, legs partly white, tarsi more or less broadly banded with 
grey-brown ; anal segments golden ochreous in the centre. Expanse 
of wings, 21 mm. 
Eockhampton. 
The allied E. docilisalis has been declared to be 
synonymous with E. stilbeaUs, a species differing from 
it in size, coloration, and pattern ; the two have also 
been pronounced to be females of Messatis sahirusalis = 
Paconia alhifimhrialis = Tricomia auroralis = Rhodaria 
rohina ; if it be a fact that either E. docilisalis or E. 
StilbeaUs is the female of Walker's M. sahirusalis (which 
has much the aspect of Pihodaria sanguinalis on a larger 
scale), the species can no longer remain in Endotricha, 
a genus in which the sexes agree in both size, form, and 
pattern. 
E. obscura, in pattern, nearly resembles E. sondaicalis 
of Snellen from the Celebes. 
Rhimphalea, Led. 
75. RJiijnjyhalea anone, n. s. 
Pearly semitransparent white, wings with a broad internally 
dentated bronze-brown border with purplish reflections, enclosing 
three acute closely approximated spots above the median branches ; 
veins black ; wings crossed beyond the middle by a very irregular 
pvirplish brown line parallel to the inner edge of the external 
border ; primaries with the costal border creamy white ; two or 
three blackish subbasal spots ; two irregular lines crossing the 
wing, the first near the base, the second (partly formed b}^ a large 
purplish lilack reniform spot) across the middle; orbicular spot 
Heteroc era from the Australian Region. 429 
somewhat elongated, angnlated in front; a lonp;iti;dinal black 
streak almost uniting the two lines below the cell ; fringes of all 
the wings plumbageous-grey, with a whitish basal and a black 
subbasal line ; head and front of collar pale ochreous ; back of 
collar pale sericeous-grey ; a large black spot on each tegula ; 
abdomen pearly white ; wings below as above ; body pearl-white, 
front legs greyish. Expanse of wings, 25 mm. 
Rockhampton. 
Ptekygisus, n. g, ; Isopteryx, Guenee* 
76. Pterygisus ochreipennis, n. s. 
Primaries black, changing in certain hglits to dark chocolate ; 
an ochreous spot at base of inner margin ; a paler ochreous band 
from the median vein to the inner margin at basal fourth; a 
minute spot of the same colour obliquely above the latter within 
the cell ; two white spots placed transversely in the middle of the 
wing ; a small pale ochreous spot obliquely below the latter close 
to inner margin ; a quadrate white spot immediately beyond the 
cell ; an ochreous subapical costal spot ; three smaU ochreous 
discal spots on the median interspaces, forming a transverse 
tapering line ; fringe alternately black and white ; secondaries deep 
ochreous; the centre of the costal border, a tapering abbre- 
viated -shaped streak just before the middle, an angulated discal 
line and the outer border (sinuated in the middle), black; thorax 
brown; abdomen grey, pale testaceous at the base. Expanse of 
wings, 18 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
GoNOCAUSTA, Led. 
77. Gonocausta I asuridia, n. s. 
Like the small genus Asura {Lithosiidce) in coloration ; primaries 
above with two ochreous spots towards the base of the costa, an 
oblique cream-coloured streak from the second of these spots 
almost to the inner margin ; and two broad cream-coloured bands, 
central and discal, connected near the centre so as to form the 
letter W , thus ; fringe whitish, with the middle, the apex, and the 
external angle, black; secondaries ochreous, streaked with black 
at the base ; the outer half of the costal border, a broad apical 
patch, a smaller anal patch, and a narrow external border uniting 
all together, black ; fi-inge alternately black and white ; body dark 
chocolate -brown ; the head and back of tegulte pale ochraceous ; 
* Preoccupied in Neuroptera (Pictet, Hist. Nat. Neur. Perhdes). 
TKANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1880. PAKT IV. (,JDEC. '2 (J, 
480 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 
abclomen crossed by slender white segmental lines ; under surface 
nearly as above ; palpi ochreous, legs and venter banded with 
ochreous. Expanse of wings, 20 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
MARGAEONIID^. 
78. Margaronia limbata, n. s. 
Allied to M. transvisalis ; primaries silvery white ; costal border 
golden ochraceous ; veins towards outer margin greyish, in certain 
lights cupreous ; fringe, excepting at apex, grey with bronze 
reflections and whity brown basal line ; secondaries pearly white, 
with diffused grey external border and slender dusky marginal 
line ; fringe white, the apical half tipped with grey ; body silvery 
white ; antennae pale bronze-brown ; primaries below white to the 
end of the cell, with the veins and costa greyish ; remainder of the 
wing sericeous-gi-eyish ; secondaries sericeous snow-white, with 
greyish external border ; body below silvery white ; an ochreous 
lateral stripe running from the tip of the palpiis to the shoulder. 
Expanse of wings, 27 mm. 
Eockbampton. 
The greyish border to the secondaries in this species 
is sufficient to distinguish it at a glance from M. transvi- 
salis, apart from other characters. 
BOTYDID^. 
BoTYS, Lair. 
79. Botys horatius, n. s. 
Nearly resembles B. hecaliaUs of St. Domingo, excepting in its 
inferior size ; bright golden ochreous ; primaries with the central 
area slightly opaline ; an oblique purplish black dash at base of 
costa ; a subangulated purplish black line across the basal fourth ; 
a short transverse line at the end of the cell and a Ime across the 
external fourth arched from costal margin to lirst median brunch, 
and thence biangulated or zigzag to inner margin ; secondaries 
pale towards the costa ; a slightly irregular purplish brown line 
from the end of the cell to the anal angle ; markings below less 
strongly defined than above. Expanse of wings, 20 mm. 
Viti Islands. 
This species is also probably allied to^lstura !- dyiusalis, 
Walk. {Botys ch/tialis, Led.). 
Heterocera fj'om the Australian Region. 431 
80. Botys argijrogaster, n. s. 
Pale golden testaceous ; wings becoming gradually pearl-white 
towards the base ; orbicular spot represented by a golden brown 
dot ; reniform spot by a little transverse spot of the same colour ; 
a faint indication of a golden brown wavy discal line ; back of 
thorax pearl-white, abdomen golden testaceous, becoming darker 
towards the posterior margins of the segments, which are pearl- 
white, sides and anal segment pearl-white ; wings below slightly 
paler than above, pectus white, legs cream-coloured ; venter 
silvery white. Expanse of wings, 25 mm. 
Viti Islands. 
Belongs to the long-winged group of this too elastic 
genus. 
Emprepes, Led. 
81. Emp7'cpes insignis, n. s. 
Primaries above rather pale chrome-yellow, with broad internally 
bismuated shining bronze-brown outer border; a small spot of 
yellow, with a faint submarginal streak of the same colour above 
it, near external angle ; costal margin to just beyond the end of 
the cell, a subbasal transverse stripe and a quadrate spot at the 
end of the cell (uniting the costa to the angle between the sinua- 
tions of the external border) black-brown ; secondaries shining 
bronze-brown ; costal area white, excepting at apex ; fringe 
greyish ; head above cream-colour ; collar dark brown, with a 
cream-coloured spot on each side ; thorax ochreous, with a dark 
brown band across the front ; abdomen pale bronze-brown, with 
whitish hind margins to the posterior segments ; under surface 
with the brown areas more golden ; otherwise much as above. 
Expanse of wings, 17 — 18 mm. 
Male, Gayndah ; female, Peak Downs. 
ScopuLA, Schr. 
82. Scopula auritincta, n. s. 
Golden ochraceous, primaries paler towards the inner margin ; 
base of the wing crossed by a broad imperfect greyish brown 
8-shaped iigure, not reaching the margins; a quadrate spot closing 
the cell, and a second large oblique S-shaped figure (open at its 
extremities) crossing the disc ; this figure is formed by an angulated 
discal stripe united just about its central angle to a 3-shaped sub- 
marginal stripe ; neither of these stripes extend to the costal or 
432 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lejndoptera- 
inner margins ; secondaries considerably paler than the primaries, 
excepting along the outer margin ; an indistinct greyish apical 
border ; wings below uniform pale golden stramineous, the pri- 
maries showing traces of the markings of the upper surface ; 
pectus silvery white, legs partly ochraceous ; venter cream- 
coloured, with glistening white hind margins to the segments. 
Expanse of wings, 25 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
Nymphula, Schr. 
83. Nymplnda sordida, n. s. 
Whity brown, with faint golden reflections ; primaries with a 
small dusky spot at the base ; a dark brown dot just below 
the middle of the discoidal cell; orbicular spot also represented by 
a similar dot ; reuiform spot well-defined, smoky brown ; a diffiised 
smoky brown apical spot and a streak of scattered scales of the 
same colour near outer margin ; a marginal series of blackish dots ; 
fringe shining whitish, traversed by a dusky line ; secondaries 
slightly greyish, with darker diffused external border ; fringes as 
in primaries ; thorax greyish ; wings below whity brown, slightly 
pearljr ; markings obsolete ; body below pearly white. Expanse 
of wmgs, 24 mm. 
Eockhampton. 
BOAEMIID^. 
BoARMiA, Treit. 
84. Boarmia tongaica, n. s. 
Yellowish (or bone-) whitish ; external borders of the wings 
blotched with sepia-brown, crossed by a submarginal dentate- 
simiate white line ; an angular undulated sepia-brown discal band, 
traversed along its inner edge by a line of the ground colour ; a 
conspicuous black spot enclosing a line of silvery grey scales at the 
extremity of each discoidal cell, below and beyond which spot is a 
dusky nebulous patch, widest on the secondaries ; an irregular 
oblique dark brown line commencing with an elbow at the middle 
of the costal margin of the primaries, passing in front of the cell 
in these wings and behind the discoidal spot on the secondaries, 
terminating at about the middle of the abdominal margin ; base 
mottled with blackish brown ; primaries with an elbowed black- 
edged brown band across the basal fourth ; costal margin irregularly 
spotted with black ; thorax greyish brown ; teguls and abdomen 
spotted with black ; under surface of the wings with the disc 
clouded with greyish brown ; a spot of the ground colour at the 
apices of the wings, a second at the extremity of the second 
Heterocera from the Australian Region. 483 
median interspaces, and a diffused discal streak from the inner 
margins near the posterior angles ; the anal border of secondaries 
also whitish ; discoidal spots well-defined, black in the centre ; 
markings towards the base ill-defined; body below bone-whitish. 
Expanse of wings, 42 mm. 
Tonga Island. 
Not very nearly allied to any known species. 
85. Boarmia samoana, n. s. 
Pale vinous-brown, irrorated with sepia-brown; wings crossed 
by blurred imperfect sepia-brown lines and spots, as m B. 
ahietaria of Em-ope ; an undulated yellowish testaceous undulated 
discal stripe, interrupted by the dark brown spots, which succeed 
the outer line of the central band, the primaries also with two 
longitudinal divergent stripes of the same yellowish colour below 
the cell, and one or two indistinct yellowish spots towards base of 
costal border ; abdomen with the usual dorsal series of black dots 
in pairs ; under smface with the markings almost obliterated, the 
annular discoidal markings represented by a large grey spot on 
the primaries and a smaller one on the secondaries; a greyish 
diffused submarginal band widening into a broad patch towards 
costa of primaries ; the costal border of these wings also spotted 
with blackish. Expanse of wings, 36 mm. 
Samoan Islands. 
Nearest to B. ijrocursaria from India. 
86. Boarmia godeffroyi, n. s. 
Apparently most nearly allied to B. semmdaria ot Europe ; 
whity brown ; most of the lines across the wings externally ill- 
defined, only indicated here and there by a few dark brown scales ; 
spots at the extremities of the discoidal cells large, blackish, 
enclosing a white crescent ; the post-median blackish line and the 
undulated brown stripe beyond it distinct, excepting on the median 
interspaces of the primaries and the costal area of the secondaries ; 
the costal area of the primaries clouded with greyish towards apex; 
a marginal series of black dots ; secondaries with the central belt 
rufous-brown from the disco-cellular spot to the abdominal margin ; 
abdomen with the usual black dots; wings below whiter than 
above, with the disc purplish grey, forming a broad belt across the 
wirfgs, with its centre rather paler than its borders, that on the 
primaries extending to the outer margin, excepting at apex and 
434 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Leindoptera- 
extremity of second median interspace, that of the secondaries 
zigzag and partly touching the outer margin towards apex ; disco- 
cellular spots represented by large black spots. Expanse of wings, 
35 mm. 
Eockhampton. 
The coloration of this species is decidedly peculiar, 
especially on the under surface, which is like that of 
OpJithalmodes. 
^Egitrichus, n. g. 
Allied to Boar mill ; neuration very similar, especially in the 
primaries ; the subcostal branches of the secondaries and the 
second and third median branches emitted at a short distance 
from each other instead of from the same point ; the disco-cellular 
veinlet also much more deeply inarched than in Boarmia ; on the 
under surface of the secondaries are two thick masses of woolly 
hair, the first projecting fr-om the outer half of the median vein 
and the base of its first branch over the interno-median area, the 
second spreading outwards from the basal half of the abdominal 
margin ; body robust, palpi rather longer than in Boarmia, por- 
rected, with deflexed short fusiform terminal joint ; antennae 
wanting in the type. 
87. Mgitrichus lanaris, n. s. 
Nearly resembles Boarmia, consortarla, but the ground colour of 
the wings is whiter, the disco-cellular spots are well-defined, crescent- 
shaped, white, that of the primaries with a grey border ; the lines 
across the wings are also better-defined, blacker; the submarginal 
dark-bordered zigzag white stripe is farther from the outer margin, 
the lines of the central belt converge more towaixls the inner 
margin of the primaries, the outer line in all the wings is less 
regular, and the black dots along the outer margin are better- 
defined ; on the under surface the differences are considerably 
more marked, the ground colour both of wings and body being of 
a pale sericeous vinous-grey instead of clear cream-colour, and the 
markings consist of ill-defined greyish disco-cellular spots, an 
arched discal streak and a submarginal band, barely distinguishable 
on the primaries ; the hairy masses are tipped with grey. Expanse 
of wings, 47 mm. 
Viti Islands. 
Ileterocera from the Australian Region. 435 
Lycauges, Butler. 
88. Lycauges proxima, n. s. 
Very near L. lactea of Japan, of nearly the same size and 
general tints; wliity brown, almost white; wings with a black 
disco-cellular dot, an oblique greyish strii^e beyond the cell, its 
upper extremity touching a slender black dotted grey discal zigzag 
line, elbowed towards costa ; two undulated grey submarginal 
stripes, ill-defiued on the primaries, and a marginal series of 
extremely minute black points ; costal margin of primarie 
yellowish in certain lights ; the submedian area of these wings on 
the under surface greyish ; basal half of secondaries below sprinkled 
with gi'ey scales ; all tlie black dots of the upper surface present, 
but the grey stripes and lines ill-defined. Expanse of wings, 
19 mm. 
Eockliamptoii. 
This species slioulcl be placed between L. defamataria 
and L. lactea. 
GEOMETRIDiE. 
Chlorochroma, Diqy. 
89. Chlorochroma neptmms, n. s. 
Dull sea-green ; primaries crossed by two widely-separated 
slender undulated white lines ; costal margin very narrowly edged 
with creamy whitish ; a small dark green disco-cellular lunule ; 
fiinge whitish, with a central green stripe ; secondaries crossed 
beyond the middle by a single slender subangulated undulated 
white line ; a dark green disco-cellular dot ; fringe as in primaries; 
vertex of head and upper surface of antennae snow-white, under 
surface of antennse cream-coloured ; wings below, especially tlie 
secondaries, suffused with pearly white ; costal margm of pri- 
maries cream-coloured ; markings obsolete ; body below white ; 
legs yellowish. Expanse of wings, 2G mm. 
Gayndah. 
Nearest to C. carcnaria, wbich appears to have been 
described from worn examples of (ieometra snhmissaria 
of Walker. 
ID.EID.E. 
Id.'ra, Iliibn. 
90. Idaa Itjdia, n. s. 
Whity brown, irrorated with grey-brown ; a slightly irregular 
smoky brown band crossing the primaries obliquely beyond the 
436 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 
middle and the secondaries at the middle ; a paler and more diffused 
band beyond the latter, its outer edge zigzag ; secondaries also with 
a submarginal stripe of the same colour ; an almost marginal 
series of black points alternately placed with a series of small 
brown spots at the base of the fringe ; markings below less strongly 
defined. Expanse of wings, 23 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
Allied to /. attributa. 
91. Idcea Jessica, n, s. 
Nearly allied to the preceding species, smaller, the primaries 
more acute ; the band beyond the middle much nearer to the outer 
margin, narrower, paler, and less u-regular ; the discal band 
following it better-defined upon the primaries, and with undulated 
(not zigzag) external edge ; a submarginal series of grey-brown 
spots on all the wings ; dots at outer margin extremely minute ; 
secondaries with a black dot at the end of the cell. Expanse of 
wings, 17 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
92. Idcea nivipennis, n. s. 
Snow-white ; wings crossed beyond the middle by two parallel 
slender grey dentated lines and two subconfluent squamose sti'ipes 
near the outer margin ; a marginal series of very minute blackish 
points ; primai'ies with a very slenderly ochraceous costal margin ; 
a minute black point at the inferior angle of the cell ; face brown, 
darkest towards the vertex of the head, the latter white ; front of 
collar orange; antennaa brown, becoming white at the base; under 
surface snow-white ; the costal margin of the primaries ochreous 
anterior coxae yellowish ; anterior tibiae and tarsi brownish above. 
Expanse of wings, 2G mm. 
Viti Islands. 
93. Id(ea iunoccns, n. s. 
Belongs to the /. ortutta group ; small ; chalky white, with small 
but conspicuous black disco-cellular spots ; a very irregularly 
sinuous olive brownish line crossing the primaries in front of the 
disco-cellular spot, cm-ving inwards below it and then downwards 
with a slight curve inwards to inner margin, crossing the 
secondaries obhquely behind the disco-cellular spot at about the 
basal third ; a faint indication of a brownish discal line, followed 
Heteroc era from the Australian Region. 437 
by an internally diffused widely undulated Lrowniali band towards 
outer margin; an imperfect submarginal brownish stripe, a 
marginal series of linear black markings almost forming a perfect 
marginal line ; wings below only showing the black markings, the 
primaries also with an indication of the undulated brownish band ; 
these wings are suffused with pale brown, excepting towards inner 
margin ; legs brownish. Expanse of wings, 18 mm. 
Eockhampton. 
94. IdcBa agnes, n. s. 
Pure white ; primaries with a brown and secondaries with a 
black disco-cellular dot, from which to the inner margins is a faint 
linear stain of brown (only visible with a lens) ; a very slender 
crenulated brownish discal line, dotted with black, and externally 
edged with ochreous upon the radial interspaces of the primaries ; 
two barely visible parallel brownish stripes; a marginal brown 
line dotted with black, and interrupted at the extremities of the 
veins on the secondaries ; face dark brown ; antennae bronze- 
brownish ; back of head pale ochreous ; pectus silvery white ; 
anterior and middle legs silvery brownish in front; abdomen 
chalky white ; primaries below sericeous, sordid white, pure white 
towards inner margin; secondaries pure white; black dots as 
above ; other markings obsolete. Expanse of wings, 22 mm. 
Eockhampton. 
Allied to /. delidosaria, and belongs to the group with 
angulated secondaries, flattened posterior tibiae, and short 
posterior tarsi. 
FIDONIID^. 
Panagra, Guenee. 
95. Panagra rupicolor, n. s. 
Dove-grey, sparsely irrorated with dark grey; a black spot at 
the extremity of each discoidal cell, and an abbreviated black- 
brown stripe from just beyond the middle of each inner margin, 
that on the primaries strongly marked, with pale inner edge, 
oblique, extending to the lower radial vein ; a small spot at about 
the basal third of the submedian vein; the stripe on the secondaries 
slender, disappearing at the base of the second median branch ; 
fringes pale brown ; under surface paler, the primaries very pale 
bronzy brownish, indistinctly and transversely striated with grey ; 
costal border and veins pale straw-yellow ; a blackish disco-cellular 
spot ; secondaries white speckled with dark grey, with three sub- 
apical spots and a subanal dash of the same colour ; veins yellow ; 
438 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lejndoptera- 
fringe yellowish at the base ; a black disco-cellular spot ; body 
whity brown. Expanse of wings, 33 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
Casbia, }V<dk. 
96. Cashia irrorata, n. s. 
5 . Pale pinky brown with golden reflections, densely krorated 
with grey ; wings with very minute marginal black dots ; primaries 
with the costal border slightly whitish ; head dark brown ; under 
sui'face white, grey-speckled, with a faint bronze-brown tint in 
certain lights ; external borders pinky brown, mottled with grey ; 
a small blackish disco-cellular spot on each wing ; legs cream- 
coloured. Expanse of wings, 26 mm. 
Eockhampton. 
Allied to C. rectaria, Walk., but without the bands and 
spots characteristic of that species ; it seems improbable 
that it can be a variety. 
ASPILATES. 
97. Aspilates clarissa, n. s. 
General aspect of very pale examples of Osteodes turhulentata, 
Guen. {=^ Asjj'ilates exmnhrata and semispurcata, Walk.), seri- 
ceous pinky whitish, indistinctly irrorated with grey-brown scales ; 
under surface of a more creamy tint, with the costal border of the 
primaries slightly ochraceous; the female decidedly whiter than 
the male on both surfaces. Expanse of wings, 81 mm. 
Male, Moreton Bay ; female, Peak Downs. 
LAEENTIID^. 
CiDARiA, Treits. 
98. Cidaria decipiens, n. s. 
Closely allied to C. emilia of Chili, from which it chiefly difi"ers 
in the absence of the yellow streaks on the veins ; primaries pale 
leaden grey, with darker basal patch and subangulated central 
belt, with zigzag black margins and white borders ; a narrow 
gi-ey-speckled testaceous band bounding the inner edge of the 
central belt; an ill-defined black reniform spot; a submarginal 
series of more or less confluent squamose blackish spots, largest 
towards apex, indistinctly edged externally by a white Ime ; 
secondaries grey ; a faint indication of an angular whitish diffused 
strii:)e across the middle and an oblique whitish line from anal 
Heterocera from the Australian Region. 439 
angle ; thorax dark gi'ey ; abdomen paler grey, with darker lateral 
spots ; under surface sericeous pale grey ; wings with small black 
disco-cellular spots and a whitish angular discal stripe. Expanse 
of wings, 20 mm. 
Sydney. 
CoREMiA, Giienee. 
99. Corcmia jncta, n. s. 
Primaries sericeous golden buff; crossed at the base by two 
black-edged zigzag silvery grey bauds, in the middle by an 
irregular pale shining chocolate-brown band, widest on costa, 
biaugulated internally and bisinuated externally, edged with black 
and bordered with white and silvery grey ; a rather broad pale 
shining chocolate-brown external border, interrupted at apex by a 
large oval silvery white spot, and bounded internally by a series of 
silvery margined black spots ; secondaries pale sericeous smoky 
grey ; head and thorax dark grey, spotted with pale yellow ; abdo- 
men whity brown ; under surface dark shining grey, irrorated with 
white ; a submarginal series of white spots, bordered internally 
with dark grey. Expanse of wings, 19 mm. 
Yiti Islands. 
PHYCITID^. 
Salebria, Zell. 
There can be little doubt that the following species 
belongs to this genus ; the secondaries, however, have 
distinctly nine veins ; they appear to have twelve, as 
there is a strongly defined fold between the abdominal 
margin and the internal vein, and there are two similar 
(but reversed) folds between the internal and the sub- 
median veins; in Meyrick's description, and in his 
structural diagnosis of the family, he appears to have 
overlooked the internal vein altogether. It is very 
improbable that any of the Phycitidce can have so few as 
seven veins in the secondaries. 
100. Sdlchrid fi(iti(iiiiic()niis, u. 8. 
I'riuiaries pale shiuing stramineous ; a pure white longitudinal 
subcostal stripe tapering at each end, passing through the cell 
almost to outer margin ; secondaries sericeous brownish white, 
with yellowish reflections, semitransparent, slightly darker along 
the external border ; fringe white, traversed near the base by a 
dusky line ; head, collar, and tegulse dull stramineous ; remainder 
of body yellowish white, pearly ; primaries below pale stramineous ; 
440 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 
secondaries whitish, tinted with stramineous towards the outer 
margin ; body below whitish, palpi and legs dull stramineous. 
Expanse of wings, 24 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
Mella, Walk. (Etiella, Zell. nom. spec). 
In this genus also there appear to be nine veins (not 
eight) in the hind wings, the internal vein having been 
jpassed over. 
101. Mella arenosa, n. s. 
Primaries above pale sandy testaceous, the fringe slightly greyish 
with a pale basal stripe ; secondaries semitransparent pearly 
greyish white, with faint golden reflections ; fringe whitish, with a 
dusky subbasal stripe ; body pale testaceous, the head and thorax 
slightly olivaceous ; wings below sericeous, pearly ; the primaries, 
the costa of the secondaries, and the base of the fringes in all the 
wings pale golden stramineous; fi-inge with a greyish subbasal 
stripe ; body below whitish, legs and palpi sordid. Expanse of 
wings, 26 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
Anerastia, Huhn. 
102. Anerastia nitens, n. s. 
Shining whity brown ; primaries sparsely irrorated with black, 
with an oblique line of black scales from outer fourth of dorsal 
margin to lower radial vein ; external border somewhat more 
densely irrorated with black than the remainder of the wing, the 
atoms tending to produce a marginal series of spots and indicating 
a line through the centre of the fringe ; thorax and abdomen 
somewhat ochraceous ; under surface shining whity brown, without 
markings. Expanse of wings, 21 mm. 
Peak Downs. 
CRAMBID^. 
DiPTYCOPHORA, Zell. 
103. lyiptjicnpliora inoriiata, n. s. 
Pale stone-greyish, sericeous; primaries in the female greyer 
than the secondaries ; reniform spot large, more or less ochraceous, 
and sometimes outlined in black and subquadrate ; costal margin 
slenderly blackish, interrupted (so as to form three short dashes) 
towards apex ; a diffused white band from centre of inner margin 
to costa at apex, interrupted by a slender oblique elbowed line of 
Hetrocera from the Australian Region. 
441 
the ground coLur, the -angle just beyond the end of the cell ; 
a diffused blael-speckled grey streak partly bounding the white 
band externally , an ill-defined wavy sub marginal dusky line (not 
visible in the hale), followed by a series of elongated spots 
forming an interupted stripe; external area white towards 
the posterior ange ; outer margin slenderly dusky, undulated 
frmge grey, whiteat the base : secondaries with the fringe grey, 
exceptmg a very sender basal line ; palpi greyish ; under surface 
whity brown, withait markings. Expanse of wings, 17—18 mm. 
Gayndah and Peak Downs. 
Explanation of Plates IX. & X. 
Plate IX. 
Fig. 1. Xantlwliile semiochrea. 
2. Ghiono]]iasma paradoxa, 
3. LeptocTKria binotata. 
4. Acritoceia negligens ; a., antenna. 
5. Dyshatussingtolaris. 
6. Eurtipsycie similis. 
7. A'porocosnus bracteatus. 
8. Badinogois tenuis. 
9. Cantliylida ijalUda. 
10. Leitcocosm'a ceres. 
Plate X. 
Fig. 1. LoplioGolcw- mirabilis ; a, tibia and tarsus, with the 
apex of tie femur. 
2. Matceomeru dubia. 
3. LeucopJioti; jyulchra. 
4. Mgitrichuslanaris. 
5. Gonocausta asuridia. 
6. Eidocastrafasciata. 
7. Hormatholrpis ereblna. 
8. Nvphadazahicolor. 
9. Ptcryglstis (^cliTeipcnnis. 
10. Pseiidcphyrd straminea. 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1886. PART IV. 
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