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sum of first segment sometimes yellow except at base; two or three 

 penultimate segments deep yellow ; tuft dark fuscous, at apex yel- 

 low; underside yellow. Legs fuscous. Forewings fuscous, with 

 purplish lustre ; a few whitish-ochreous scales ; sometimes with three 

 indistinct whitish-ochreous spots, first on dorsum before middle, 

 second on tornus, third (seldom developed) on costa at i; cilia 

 fuscous. Hindwings and cilia dark grey. Type in Coll. Turner. 



Q. : Brisbane, in December; Toowoomba, in April; Warwick, in 

 September ; Killarney, in October ; a good series. 



ERETMOCERA CYANAUGES, n sp. [Kvuvavyqs, dark gleaming]. 



<j£. 14-17 mm. Head bronzy-fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous; 

 towards base whitish-ochreous. Antennas thickened with dense 

 scales on upper surface for f, then slender; dark fuscous. Thorax 

 bronzy-fuscous, with a posterior pair of small yellow spots. Abdo- 

 men orange-yellow; terminal segment and tuft dark fuscous; 

 centre tuft in £ orange-yellow; underside similar, but with a 

 broad basal dark fuscous band. Legs dark fuscous; base of pos- 

 terior tibiae yellow. Forewings dark fuscous, with blue and purple 

 sheen; four orange-yellow spots; first on dorsum at J, second in 

 disc before middle, third on tornus, fourth on costa at |; cilia fus- 

 cous. Hindwings yellow ; apex fuscous ; cilia fuscous, towards tor- 

 nus yellow. 



Differs from E. chrysias in the more heavily scaled antennas, the 

 absence of the sub-basal dorsal band on abdomen, and the yellow 

 hindwings. Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q. : Townsville, in February and May; three specimens, re- 

 ceived from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



SNELLENIA LINE ATA. 



1 have one example (from Coolangatta) in which the apical third 

 of forewing is wholly suffused with dark fuscous. 



Q.: Eumundi, near Nambour, in November; Brisbane, in Janu- 

 ary; Coolangatta, in December.— N.S.W. : Tabulam, in December. 

 — Yic. : Gisborne. 



