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28. Dysrhombia longipennis sp. uo\. 



Foreivin(/s : imri'lisli fuscous; costa streaked with dark fuscous and paler; 

 the lines indistinct and diffuse, blackish mixed with ferruginous scales; first at 

 one-third, angled in midwing ; second from middle of costa to middle of inner 

 margin, outcurved in middle ; submarginal line irregularl_v wavy ; fringe coneolorous. 



Hindirinr/s : with tlie hasal area diffusedly purplish; exterior line from costa 

 at three-fourths, ferruginous edged with paler, running parallel to hindmargin and 

 angled like it in the middle; its inner arm marked with a blotch of dark puriilish 

 and ferruginous scales ; \eins towavds hindmargin pale ; hindmargin on each side 

 of tail with a dark streak intersected by the veins. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen concoloVous with wings; antennae ochreous. Under- 

 side dull cinereous, paler towards the margins. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



One (J from Cedar Bay, south of C'ooktown, (Queensland (A. S. ]\Ieek). 



29. Epiplema ambusta sp. no\. 



Forewin</s : reddish ochreous, more or less suffused with grey-brown or purjilish 

 lirown, and slightly- irrorated with darker ; costa dotted with dark fuscous ; first 

 line at one-third, dull ferruginous, angled in cell and on submedian fold, the basal 

 area within it clouded with grey-brown ; outer line from costa about middle, dark 

 ferruginous, obliquely bent outwards to middle of wing, then, much finer, inwards 

 to inner margin at two-thirds, where it is followed by a dark ferruginous mark ; 

 the line is succeeded by a broad greyish purple fascia which leaves the margin of 

 the ground-colour; a dark ferruginous cur\ed submarginal line from just before 

 apex to below middle, beyond which the exti'eme margin is again gi-eyish purple ; 

 marginal line dark brown ; fringe coneolorous, mottled with darker. 



Hindivinf/s : wholly suflused with dark purplish grey, mixed in the middle 

 with ferruginous; a twice-augulated basal Hue; a triangular pure white discal 

 spot ; outer line dark ferruginous, wavy, olitusely bent in middle, and edged 

 e.xternally with ochreous; a ferruginous snbniargiual line from upper tooth to anal 

 angle, edged with yellowish, and with a yellowish streak into the lower tooth ; 

 fringe dark. 



Undenside purplish cinereous, darker in forewings ; hindwings with a dark 

 curved postmedian line. Head and palpi black ; thorax and abdomen cinereous. 



Expanse of wings : 18 mm. 



One c? from Eanda, August 1892 (^^■. Doherty). 



Forewings bluntly rounded, with a slight sinus opjiosite the cvW; hindwings 

 toothed at veins 4 and 7, crenulate between 4 and (I, and 6 and T. 



30. Epiplema clathrata s]!. nov. 



Forewings: pale greyish fawn-colour, speckled with darker; the two lines 

 pale, angulated in the middle of wing, the inner line followed and the outer 

 preceded by brown blotches between the paler veins ; marginal line blacki.sli, 

 preceded by two subapical black dots, and a fine, slightly waved, black mark 

 before the excision ; fringe pale, darker at apex, elbow, and anal angle. 



Hindwings: the same, Init the ground-colour smoother, not varied with 



