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on median .itid submedian veins ; second line from !i brown-red costal spot sit 

 two-thirds, ontcnrved on veins 6 and 4, and there marked by a sinnons red-brown 

 line preceded by an olive brownish blotch, inmrved below vein 4 to two-thirds of 

 inner margin and marked by red-brown dots on veins, that on the snbmcilian 

 forming a large spot ; a snbmarginal row of brown spots on the veins parallel to 

 hindmargin, starting from a brown costal blotch before apex ; fringe red-brown, 

 with a row of small marginal dots before the base ; cell-dot small. 



Jlinilicinqx : with onter and snbmarginal lines only ; the onter line cnrvod and 

 marked by dots on veins ; the snbmargiual with the spots obscure. 



In both wings the basal two-thirds is slightly more snffuscd with olive than 

 the marginal third. 



Underside deep copjiery red, coarsely speckled with black, and with all the 

 markings black : a black marginal line ; hairs at base of hindwing and fringe of 

 inner margin bright reddish ; tuft of hair below median brown-black ; those on 

 veins 2 and 3 ochreous and fnlvons. Face and palpi coppery red ; vertex, thorax, 

 and abdomen like wings ; basal third of antennae pale, the rest dark ; femora red ; 

 fore-tibiae and tarsi alternately ochreous and dark brown : middle-tibiae dark brown : 

 hind-tibiae reddish, becoming brown towards end like the tarsi. 



Expanse of wings : 36 mm. 



One S from Dorei, April 1897 (Doherty). 



30. Taxeotis semifusca sp. nov. 



Forewings : greyish white, with coarse and thick fuscous-grey speckling ; a 

 diffuse dark fuscous line from below one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin, 

 minutely angled outwards on median and submedian veins ; a small black discal 

 dot ; onter line fuscous, from three-fourths of costa, where it is indistinct, to two- 

 thirds of inner margin, curved outwards from vein fi to vein 2, where it is bluntly 

 bent ; followed below vein by a second dark line which is thickened above inner 

 margin, the space between them faintly tinged with rusty ; marginal area wholly 

 tilled up with dark fuscous, edged above by an oblique line from a])ex ; minute 

 black dots along margin between the veins ; fringe with basal two-thirds fuscous- 

 grey, onter third pale. 



IJiiu/icinys : without iirst line ; a central curved line followed by a darker 

 fuscous shade before the dark marginal area. 



Underside whitish grey, densely fuscous-speckled. Face and palpi blackish, 

 the palpi white at base ; vertex and thorax grey ; abdomen pale grey speckled with 

 darker. 



The liiudmargin of forewings is sinuous. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



One ? from Dawson district, Queensland (from the Barnard ('ollection). 



Subfamily ORTHOSTIXINAE. 



31. Bociraza latiflava ab. restricta nov. 



• Differs from typical Infiflani Warr., in liaving the large yellow semicircular 

 area on inner margin on forewings restricted to a small basal blotch, much dusted 

 with fuscous scales, and only reaching to one-third of wing. In the hindwing the 



