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smoky-fuscous. Forewings : costa gently rounded, hindmargin 

 rounded, fuscous, irrorated with darker fuscous and ashy-grey 

 and marked with black lines ; costa finely irrorated with ashy- 

 grey, a black line, sometimes double, and black dot at base from 

 costa to a basal suffusion of fuscous-ochreous on inner margin, a 

 dotted interrupted irregular black line from ^ costa to J hind- 

 margin, a well-defined sinuous black line from ^ costa to | inner 

 margin, a black-lined kidney -shape discal ring immediately beyond ; 

 a second rhomboidal black-lined ring immediately beyond and 

 nearer costa, containing a fuscous-grey dot and a sufi"usion of 

 ashy-grey posteriorly ; a sharply-defined rich black line from § 

 costa twice dentate obliquely outwards, thence parallel to 2nd 

 ring beyond and opposite, thence obliquely inwards as a wavy 

 line to f inner margin, bordered posteriorly with ashy-grey, and 

 again with a difiused line of fuscous-grey; another line just before 

 apex of costa in a semilunar wave, then sinuous and twice sharply 

 dentate to just before hindmargin ; a submarginal line of light 

 grey-fuscous dots, followed by a hindmarginal fuscous-ochreous 

 Hue ; posterior fourth of wing deeply irrorated with ashy-grey : 

 cilia ochreous-f uscous, with median and terminal lines of fuscous- 

 grey. Hindwings deep fuscous-ochreous, with veins fuscous, and 

 a very broad hindmarginal band and suffusion of smoky-fuscous ; 

 cilia as forewings. 



Duaringa and Brisbane. 



Family NOCTUID/E. 



Prionophoka torquesauria, sp.nov. 



^2- 18-23 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark chocolate-fuscous. 

 Antennae fuscous. Abdomen light ochreous-fuscous. Forewings 

 elongate, costa gently rounded, hindmargin obliquely rounded, 

 rich chocolate-fuscous, lined and trellised with fuscous and black, 

 and with short lines or bars of light gold ; costa with a black 

 spot near middle and several toward apex ; a gold bar from ^ to 

 -? costa and almost touching costa, a 2nd gold bar from centre of 

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