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and base of wing is an irregular more or less parallel line, in some 

 specimens stopping short, in others running irregularly to inner 

 margin, and in others one or two other irregular lines still nearer 

 the base of wing; a conspicuous wavy zigzag band from costa to 

 ^ inner margin prominently arngled outwards before and over 

 middle, and thence sending a line at an angle towards base of 

 wing; a rich wide band of black in some specimens along median 

 fold, in others this is absent; a suffusion of white beyond outer 

 transverse line, shaded more or less towards costa with slaty- 

 grey, in some specimens absent, in others only as a lunar mark 

 over inner half of wing ; a white zigzag subhindmarginal line 

 becoming lost before inner margin, and in many specimens alto- 

 gether absent : cilia grey, lined with black and fuscous. Hind- 

 wings fuscous, lighter towards the base; cilia light buff, fuscous 

 at base. 



Brisbane; in stumps and second growth of felled Eucah'pts. 



A most variable species. Allied to C. epigramma, Meyr. 



Catoryctis truncata, n.sp. 



^. 20 mm. Head ochreous-white; palpi ochreous-white, ter- 

 minal joint diffused and sparingly dotted with fuscous; antennae 

 dark fuscous; thorax ochreous; abdomen ochreous, with a band 

 of blackish-fuscous at base of segments; legs fuscous. Forewings 

 elongate, costa arched, hindmargin obliquely rounded, ochreous, 

 with white bands and blackish fuscous lines and bands. Fore- 

 wings with four longitudinal bands of ground colour, the first 

 along costa, thins out towards apex and base, and is bounded by 

 a subcostal silver-white line from base to beyond ^ costa; the 

 second line is median and is suffused with silvery- white; the third 

 line is immediately before the inner margin and the fourth is 

 inner marginal, both are from near base of inner margin and thin 

 out towards apex; the space between first and second lines is deep 

 blackish-fuscous, and is divided by eight lines of ground colour, 

 running obliquely outwards from median to costa, the apical ones 

 gradually become shorter; the second space between the second 

 and third bands is blackish-fuscous and is divided in hind marginal 



