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with dark fuscous and sometimes partially ochreous-tinged; 

 stigmata blackish, more or less accompanied with white suffusion, 

 variable in development, sometimes large, plical obliquely bej^ond 

 first discal, an additional dot between and above first and second 

 discal, and another beneath second discal; an oblique spot of dark 

 fuscous suffusion from base of costa, and usually blotches before 

 and beyond middle; some undefined dark spots towards costa 

 posteriorly and termen : cilia ochreous-whitish, irregularly 

 sprinkled with dark fuscous. Hindwings somewhat over 1, apex 

 obtuse, termen hardly sinuate; yellow-grey-whitish, suffused with 

 light grey towards apex; cilia ochreous-whitish. 



Rosewood, Queensland, in September ; six specimens, all in 

 poor condition. 



193. P. thyrsoptera, n.sp. 



f^. 14 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, crown sprinkled centrally 

 with fuscous. Palpi whitish-ochreous, sprinkled with dark fuscous, 

 second joint with dark fuscous subapical ring, terminal joint 

 shorter than second, with two bands of blackish irroration. 

 Antennee fuscous, base whitish-ochreous. Thorax pale ochreous, 

 dorsally sprinkled with fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. 

 Legs dark fuscous, ringed with ochreous-whitish, posterior pair 

 suffused with ochreous-whitish. Forewings moderate, costa 

 moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen oblique, straight, rounded 

 beneath; '1 and 3 stalked; pale fuscous, irregularly mixed with 

 darker; a pale basal patch, its edge running from f of costa to 

 dorsum near base, enclosing small dark fuscous costal spots at base 

 and i; beyond this a transverse dark fuscous spot from costa, 

 terminating beneath in two divergent slender partially white-edged 

 arms, terminated and connected on fold by a blackish streak pro- 

 duced anteriorly to basal patch; a short black elongate mark in 

 disc above middle;* a rather ill-defined black longitudinal streak 

 from middle of disc to termen beneath apex, with an interrupted 

 branch to costa above apex; a cloudy white dot resting on this 

 representing second discal stigma; a series of small dark fuscous 

 spots separated by whitish dots on posterior half of costa; an 



