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Underside yellow, with coarser but fewer brown striue. The Hue visible only 

 on forewings. 



Expanse of wiugs : 44 — 46 mm. 



Two <?(? from Balabac, 1893 (Everett). 



In the British Museum there are a d from Java aud a ? from China. 



16. Dirades albula sji. nov. 



Forewinga : greyish white, rufous-tinged, aud slightly freckled with grey ; 

 costa darker, with fuscous striae ; lines obscure ; first from costa before middle, 

 second at two-thirds, both oblitjue outwards to vein 4, the latter acutely angled, 

 and both joining a triangular-shaped mark with curved edges, reaching from inner 

 margin to median, the apex of which is filled up with black-brown ; a snbmargiual 

 row of black triangles between the veins ; fringe dark grey. 



Hindiciiign : with the two lines ferruginous, marked with l)lack scales, both 

 bluutly angled on vein 4 ; a streak of black and white scales along the median aud 

 along inner margin, the markings obsolete between along the snbmediau fokl ; 

 submarginal black triangles, preceded by a darker cloud. 



Underside dull rufous grey, the hiudwings paler. Head, ])alpi, and forelegs 

 brownish fuscous ; vertex and antennae white ; collar ferruginous ; front of thorax 

 grey-brown ; thorax and patagia bluish white ; abdomen whitish, with dorsal 

 fascous markings. 



Expanse of wiugs : 1 T mm. 



One S from Coomooboolaroo, Dawson district, Queensland, March 29th, 1889. 



The examjile described is ])artial]y damaged, but ajjpears sufficiently di.stinct, 

 from the pale patagia. The hindmargin of hiudwings is rounded, with a sliglit 

 bulge below the middle beyond vein 4. In markings of forewings it agrees almost 

 exactly with I), seminiyra "Warr., the type of which, a ? , is from Cedar Bay, 

 Queensland, but it can hardly be the other sex of that species. 



IT. Dirades decorata sp. nov. 



Foretvings : grey, s])eckled with darker grey, with no distinct lines ; a dark 

 sjiot on discocellular, followed at three-fourths of wing by a vertical dark fuscous 

 shade, marked with ferruginous scales ; a bent line of contiguous black spots before 

 hindmargin from apex to vein 4, also mixed with some ferruginous scales and 

 preceded by a broad dark grey shade from costa to anal angle : fringe iron-grey, 

 with a ferruginous basal line. 



Hindivinga : cinereous, mottled with ferruginous; hindmargin with some 

 violet-grey lustrous scales, preceded by an irregularly dentate black line, before 

 which is another band of violet scales : costa from base to four-fifths of wing as far 

 as vein 7 snow-white, tlie end of the streak oblique towards apex ; snbmediau fold 

 in $ whitish. 



Underside of forewings rusty grey, of hiudwings whitish. Face aud palpi 

 brown ; vertex white ; thorax and abdomen grey, tlie latter brownish above. 



Exi)ause of wiugs : c^ 18 mm., ? 20 mm. 



A pair from ( 'oomooboolaroo, Dawson district, Queensland, November 8th, 1880. 



The tints in the $ are darker throughout than in the ¥. Superficially like 

 (iathyniu alhibasia Warr. from Fergusson Island. 



