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of bifurcation; while, on the left side, 11 arises apparently from 

 12, and is not connected with 10; as previously explained, this 

 abnormality is due to 10 having been captured by the anasto- 

 motic bar, and the obliteration of its origin from 12. 



N.Q.: Herberton. — Q.: Gympie, Brisbane, Towoomba. — N.8.W.. 

 Newcastle, Sydney. 



54. BOARMIA ATMOCYMA, n.sp. 

 aT/WKVjxo'i. with smokj' waves. 

 9.28 mm. Head gre}"- whitish; face fuscous, lower edge grey- 

 whitish. Palpi Ih ; fusc(nis-grey-whitish. Antenna? fuscous. 

 Thorax with a minute crest at each posterior angle; grey mixed 

 with whitish. Abdomen gre\^ mixed with whitish, apices of seg- 

 ments narrowly whitish; beneath white, with a few fuscous scales. 

 Legs white irrorated and suffused with fuscous-grey. Forewings 

 elongate-triangular, costa straight, apex rounded, termen bowed, 

 oblique; 10 and 11 coincident, free (2 9); grey densely irrorated 

 with white; five oblique lines from dorsum becoming indistinct 

 towards costa; first from ,V dorsum, very fine, blackish, ending in 

 a large, blackish, discal dot at A; second from |, grey, running 

 into discal dot, traceable to costa beyond middle; third from near 

 second, blackish, to i costa, becoming very fine and acutely 

 dentate towards costa ; fourth from before mid-dorsum, grey, 

 parallel to third, but lost in disc; fifth from | dorsum, fuscous, 

 to costa near apex, dentate towards costa, immediately followed 

 by a whitish line ; a fine, blackish, terminal line, thickened 

 between veins; cilia whitish obscurely barred with grey. Hind- 

 wings with termen but little rounded: colour as forewings; with 

 four transverse lines; first at f^, dark fuscous; second and third 

 postmedian, close and parallel; fourth blackish, immediately fol- 

 lowed by a whitish line. Underside whitish, with fuscous irro- 

 ration; large, postmedian, discal spots, and broad, terminal bands 

 on both wings, dark fuscous; the band on fore wing ceases before 

 tornus. 



Type in Coll. Lyell. 



N.Q. : Prince of Wales Island, Torres Straits; in June; two 

 specimens (H. Elgner). 



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