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anterior line and sometimes more or less suffused with blackish. 

 Antenn8e white ringed with blackish, towards apex without rings 

 Init with three blackish bands. Abdomen ochreous-orange, paler 

 posteriorly. Legs whitish, ringed with dark fuscous. Forewings 

 ochreous-orange; a fine white costal line from base to f ; a white 

 finely fuscous-edged line from costa near base to disc at J, a short 

 one beneath apex of this almost touching fold, another from 

 beneath costa Ijefore middle to disc at ^, one along fold from base 

 interrupted at | and before fascia, and one along dorsum from 

 base to middle; a white subdorsal spot before middle; a narrow 

 white vertical fascia at |, enclosing a dark fuscous costal strigula, 

 and followed ])y a whitish -ochreous dorsal patch reaching half 

 across wing, in which is a subdorsal dot of black and silvery- 

 metallic scales; a dark fuscous costal strigula at f, margined by 

 white strigulae, resting on the whitish-ochreous patch : cilia 

 whitish-ochreous, round apex orange-tinged, towards tornus 

 purplish-tinged. Hindwings dark grey; cilia grey. 



Brisbane, Queensland; in September, three specimens. 



S7. P. leiicomhva, n.sp. 



(J. 10 mm. Head and thorax coppery-ochreous, with a white 

 line on each side of back, face white. Palpi slender, white, 

 second joint orange-tinged. Antennje white with a dark grey 

 line above, towards apex without line but with tw^o dark grey 

 bands. Abdomen whitish. Legs whitislj^, ringed with dark grey. 

 Forewings ferruginous-ochreous; a fine bluish-silvery curved line 

 from base of costa to \ of disc, another from beneath costa at \ to 

 middle of postmedian band, and a short dash beneath apex of first 

 one; a white line along fold, interrupted at \ and before band; a 

 suffused whitish spot beneath this before middle ; a broad 

 yellowish-white vertical postmedian band, extending to t of costa 

 and emitting a terminal streak to apex, enclosing two vertical 

 dark fuscous costal strigulaj near its margins, and a dorsal spot 

 of black and leaden-metallic scales near its anterior margin: cilia 

 whitish. Hindwings pale grey; cilia grey-whitish. 



Brisbane, Queensland; one specimen (Dr. A. J. Turner). 



