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Hhulviiigs: with a wavy black mark on inner margin at one-tliird ; a dark 

 brown postmedian line, bluntly angled on vein 4, edged with whitish and followed 

 on inner-marginal half by a patch of whitish scales ; some indistinct submarginal 

 black dots edged with white. 



Underside of forewiugs dark brownish grey, with the margin blackish; hiudwiugs 

 paler. Palpi and face black ; fillet and base of antennae white ; thorax and abdomen 

 brownish grey. 



Expanse of wings : 2G mm. 



One ? from Lifu. 



The hindmargin of forewings is vertical to vein 0. thence curved to anal 

 angle ; inner margin strongly sinuous. Hindwiugs strong!}- toothed at veins 4 and 

 7, with a smaller tooth at vein (i. 



27. Dirades seminigra sp. nov. 



Foreivings : grey-brown with a rufous tinge, with numerous fine and close trans- 

 verse darker striae ; first line not expressed, only indicated by the curved margin of 

 the slightly darker basal area ; second line rufous, edged outwardlj' with paler and 

 then with grey, from costa at three-fourtiis, running straight outwards to third 

 median, where it is bluntly angled, then inwards to inner margin at two-thirds, where 

 it is followed by a dark bfown-black triangle with curved edges ; submarginal line 

 pale, rufous-tinged, from just before apex to anal angle, having on its outer edge 

 black spots on the veins ; fringe concolorous. 



Hindtviwjs : brown-black ; the basal half varied with rufous grey scales, and 

 with a broadish streak of the same colour from base along middle of wing ; an 

 antemedian curved row of three or four black-brown blotches ; an angulated rufous 

 grey postmedian line, the inner edge of which on the marginal half is black-brown ; 

 a fine pale submarginal line curving with the hindmargin ; fringe black-brown. 



Underside cinereous, more rufous in forewiugs. p'ace and palpi black-brown ; 

 fiUet white; thorax rufous grey; abdomen black-lnowii, the first segment with a 

 velvety black ring. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



One ? from Cedar Kay, south of Cooktowii, Queensland (A. R. Meek). 



Dysrhombia gen. nov. 



Forewinffs : with costa strongly curved ; apex sharp ; hindmargin with four 

 excisions and prominent teeth at ends of veins 2, 3, and (! ; inner margin 

 slightly sinuate. 



liindvnngs : elongate, running out to a ijromineut tooth at vein 4; the 

 hindmargin oblique and straight from the tooth to apical and anal angle; distance 

 from base of wing to tooth greater than from base of forewing to its apex. 



Antennae of S thick, short, and lamellate; palpi porrect, short; hind tibiae 

 swollen, with four spurs ; costa of hindwings fringed with hair except for a short 

 space just beyond middle. 



Neurutlon: forewings, cell one-third as long as wing; first median at seven- 

 eighths, second just before angle of cell, third from angle; lower radial from upper 

 angle ; upper radial and last subcostal stalked from upjier angle; fir.st aiid second 

 free; third and fourth stalked. Hindwings with the two .subcostals frqm upper 

 angle, the last two medians on a short stalk. 



Type: Dysi-homlna lonffipennis sp. nov. 



