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5s. Somatina maculata sp. nov. 



Foreioiny.t: dull wliitish, tinged willi (dive-ochreous or fuscons ; curved aud 

 waved aiitenu'(liaii, median, aud postiuedian lines, much as in nifi/n.'triii Warn, but 

 all indistinct, except above inner margin, where they are red-brown ; a minute cell-dot 

 on the antemedian line ; two snbmarginal Innulate shades, with tlie paler sub- 

 marginal line between them: the liinules on either sid<' of vein 7 dark red-brown in 

 both, and above anal angle only in the inner one: a dark grey marginal line, with two 

 or three small marginal spots below apex: fringe olive-grey. 



/fiwhri»(/.<i: without the red marginal blotches. 



Underside together with the fringes glossy whitish, speckled with a few red- 

 brown scales; two or three dark marginal dots at base of fringes l)elow apex of eaeli 

 wing, that below vein 7 of hindwings larger than the rest. Palpi lirowuish, palrr 

 beneath; lower half of face ochreons; upper half and vertex brown; collar fenu- 

 ginous; thorax and abdomen like wings, the latter marked with red-brown. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



Two cJ 6 from Coomooboolaroo, Dawson district, Queensland, one dated 

 May 28th, 1892. 



59. Somatina ossicolor sp. nov. 



Fort^iriDi/a : bone-colonr, tinged with very pale brownish ochreons, the lines 

 slightly darker ; all oblique outwards from costa and bluntly angh'd im the subcostal 

 and vein ft: first from costa at two-fifths to two-fiftlis of inner margin; second, 

 browner, from two-thirds of costa, more sharply angled on vein G, to three-fifths of 

 inner margin ; the snbterminal and snbmarginal both more waved and Innulate ; a 

 narrower lunnlate line immediately before hindmargin ; marginal line brownish, 

 swollen between the veins into slight Innnles, the subapical one with a black spot at 

 its apex: fringe concolorons ; two black marginal dots on discocellular. 



HimlwingH : the same, without first line; the brown line straight and ante 

 median, with a black cell-spot before it. 



Underside bone-colour, with the snbterminal lino marked by dots on veins. 

 Face aud palpi bone-colonr below, dark brown above; vertex dark brown; thorax 

 and abdomen bone-colour. 



Expanse of wings : :W mm. 



One ? from Snmba, February ISOfi (W. Doherty). 



no. Somatina sordida sp. nov. 



I'nretcings : dull whitish, tinged with dull olive-ochreous, more deeply towards 

 hindmargin; antemedian, median, and postmedian lines rather darker, waved and 

 indented Jieyond cell, all more or less obscure; a faintly darker cell-sj)ot ; sub- 

 marginal line and shades very indistinct ; marginal line darker grey, with two 

 minute subapical marginal dots; fringe greyish ochreous. 



Hindwiiujx: without first line. 



Underside whitish, without any markings whatever. I'ulpi, face, ;inil vertex 

 dark brown, the vertex deepest ; collar ferruginous ; thorax and alulomen like 

 wings: abdomen somewhat ochreous-tinged. 



Expanse of wings : 33—35 mm. 



Two c? <? from Dawson district, Queensland. 



