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large, abdominal tuft, has a pair of hair-tufts from the under- 

 surface of the penultimate segment. 



Subfam. T I N E I N iE . 

 Narycia ( Xysmatodoma) polystona Turn. Two ^; fore wings 

 darker than in ^i being more generally sufiFused with fuscous, but 

 pale sub-basal dorsal blotch well marked; antennal ciliations 1. 



Fam. LYMANTRIAD^. 



PORTHESIA EUTHYSANA. 



Porthesia euthysana Turn., Trans. R. Soc.S. Aust., 1902, p.l75. 



Four (J examples. I took also a $ at rest on a rock in the 

 gorge beneath Ebor Falls. The species was previously known 

 only from Mount Tambourine, Queensland. The Ebor males 

 have the yellowish dorsal fringe on forewing.'- less marked, and 

 the blackish colour on the dorsum of abdomen restricted to the 

 basal segments. 



Fam. GEOMETRID^. 

 Subfam. Acidalian^. 



EOIS HALMiEA. 



Acidalia halmcea Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1887, 

 p.846. 



I took five (J examples of this variable species in the Scrub. 

 A widely distributed species, occurring also in Queensland : 

 Nambour, Brisbane, Mt. Tambourine, Toowoomba. — K.S.W. : 

 Sydney, Bulli, Kiama. — Yic: Gisborne.— Tasm.: George's Bay. 



Gen. Prototypa, n.g. 



TrpwTOTi'TTOs, primitive. 



Face smooth. Tongue well-developed. Palpi moderately 



long, projecting well beyond frons, shortly rough-haired, porrect; 



terminal joint minute. Antennae of ^ dentate, ciliated. Thorax 



not hairy beneath. Posterior tibise of ^ slender, with two pairs 



of spurs. Forewings with 2 from 4, 5 from above middle, 6 



separate, 7, 8, 9 stalked from before end of cell, 10 arising from 



cell and anastomosing with 1 1 and 9 to form a double areole. 



Hindwings with 3 and 4 widely separate at origin, 5 well-de- 



