BY E. MEYRICK. 



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390. A. cyclotoma Low. 



{Snrolopha cydotoma Low., Trans. Roy. Soc. S Austr. 1901, 74). 



Abdomen in $ with dorsal tuft of pale yellowish scales towards 

 base, and with loose yellowish scales dorsally throughout, on sides 

 with very large expansible tufts of long pale fuscous hairs from 

 near base Posterior tibiae yellowish on sides, in $ with dense 

 expansible brush of whitish hairs above. Hindwings (described 

 by Lower as golden-ochreous) dark fuscous, lighter anteriorly, on 

 undersurface suffused with ochreous-yellow anteriorly. 



Q.: Cairns, Townsville (Dodd); in November, and from Feb- 

 ruary to April. 



391. A. niosaica Low. 

 {Tetn7ioIo2)ha mosaica Juow., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. 1901, 72). 

 N. AuST.: Port Darwin — Q.: Townsville (Doddi; in January. 

 Common also in India, Ceylon, and Siam. 



392. A. mesarotra, n.sp 



<^. 15-17 mm. Head whitish, crown somewhat mixed with 

 grey, face with a blackish bar Palpi porrected, whitish, second 

 joint with three blackish spots. Thorax ochreous-whitish, mostly 

 suffused with fuscous and dark fuscous except shoulders. Fore- 

 wings moderate, posteriorly dilated, costa moderately arched, 

 apex obtuse, termen hardly sinuate, scarcely oblique; palegreyish- 

 ochreous, tips of scales silvery- whitish; markings olive-brownish, 

 mixed and strigulated with black, margined with whitish-ochreous; 

 costa slightly reddish-tinged, with some scattered dark fuscous 

 strigulse; basal patch represented by a longitudinal streak above 

 middle and a triangular patch occupying basal third of dorsum; 

 central fascia irregular, broad, not oblique, postmedian, interrupted 

 below middle, and with posterior edge very deeply indented 

 above middle, forming an acute projection between these; an 

 itregular (;onical prsetornal spot representing ocellus; a downward- 

 oblique elongate mark terminating in middle of termen; a small 

 dark fuscous apical spot : cilia fuscous sprinkled with whitish, 

 Avith dark fuscous basal line, on tornus suffused with ochreous- 



