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70 KEVISION t>F AUSTRALIAN TORTRICIXA, 



costa sti'ongly arclied, apex very obtuse, termen slightly rounded? 

 rather prominent; pale brownish flesh-colour irregularly strigu- 

 lated throughout with blue-le^den-metallic, with a few scattered 

 dark fuscous strigula>; markings formed by an irregular inter- 

 mixture of whitish-ochi-eous, brown, and black marks, very unde- 

 fined and irregular; basal patch with outer edge oblique; central 

 fascia moderate, oblique, becoming broad downwards, including a 

 small round ochreous-whitish spot within its posterior edge in 

 middle; a streak from beneath costa at | to middle of termen, 

 above which is a blue-leaden stria : cilia whitish-ochreous, on 

 upper half of termen barred with bluish grey, beneath tornus with 

 a dark grey spot. Hindwings dark fuscous; cilia whitish, barred 

 witli grey, with dark grey basal line. 



New Guinea : Woodlark I. (Meek); one specimen. 



385. A. scaristis, n.sp. 



^. 17 mm. Head dark fuscous spotted with whitish, lower 

 half of face whitish. Palpi short, porrected, white spotted with 

 dark fuscous. Thorax white irregularly marked with dark fus- 

 cous, with a few reddish scales. Pasterior tibia? and basal joint 

 of tarsi densely tufted above with long white scales. Forewings 

 moderately broad, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex 

 rounded-obtuse, termen almost straight, little oblique; rather dark 

 fuscous; basal half almost wholly covered with suffused white 

 strife except a small round spot beneath costa towards base and 

 a larger s]K)t on costa beyond it; posterior half of costa with five 

 pairs of white strigulee; an undefined discal patch beyond middle 

 suff'usedly mixed Avith blackish, followed by two subconfluent 

 oblique purplish-leaden striaj terminating in ocellus, with some 

 scattered dark i-ed scales round them; ocellus very broadly edged 

 with leaden-metallic mixed with whitish, and bisected by a 

 similar horizontal bar; two or three obliqvie confluent leaden- 

 metallic whitish-mixed striae across apex, extreme apex dark 

 brown-red : cilia grey irrorated \\\t]\ white, Avith brown-reddish 

 basal line. Hindwings with subdorsal fold clothed with liairs: 

 dark gre}'; cilia white with dark grey subbasal line. 



New Guinea : Woodlark I. (Meek); one siDccimen. 



