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fuscous between these ; basal patch strigulated with grey, 

 outer edge obtusely angulated in middle, lower portion 

 formed by an acute-triangular patch marked with dark 

 fuscous strigce ; central fascia greyish-ochreous more or 

 less sprinkled and edged with dark fuscous, hardly 

 oblique, somewhat curved, entire, outer edge with 

 an acute projection at { and a long narrow projection 

 below middle ; a subtriangular greyish-ochreous spot mixed 

 with dark fuscous on dorsum before tornus, round which are 

 some indistinct pale leaden-metallic streaks representing 

 ocellus : a greyish-ochreous streak more or less mixed with 

 dark fuscous from costa at f to middle of termen, slender on 

 upper third, rest dilated, preceded and followed by pale 

 leaden-metallic strigae ; a dark fuscous spot at apex: cilia 

 whitish, with dark fuscous basal line. Hindwings grey ; cilia 

 grey-whitish, with dark grey subbasal line. 



Q. : Cairns (Dodd), Brisbane, Gympie (Turner) ; from 

 February to April, four specimens. This and the following 

 species are nearly allied to the Indian F. ephippias Meyr. 



363. P. anconia, n.sp. 



c^. 12-14 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous-whitish, 

 palpi porrected, second joint with a median spot of fuscous 

 suffusion, thorax somewhat sprinkled with fuscous. Antennae 

 serrulate, simple. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa 

 moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen straight, somewhat 

 oblique ; light greyish-ochreous ; costa dark fuscous, with 

 pairs of whitish strigulse whence arise subconfluent glossy 

 ochreous-whitish striae obliterating nearly all groundcolour ; 

 markings more or less suffused with deeper ochreous and 

 sprinkled or strigulated with dark fuscous ; a moderate basal 

 patch, its outer edge obtusely angulated in middle, with a 

 more or less marked prominence above this, and sinuate 

 inwards on lov/er half ; central fascia interrupted below 

 middle, \ipper half rather narrow, oblique, its posterior edge 

 obtusely angulated in middle and with a narrow rather 



