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black at base and with a black band bisecting the wing from base 

 to hindinarginal band opposite ^ hindmargin, and with a dentate 

 projection toward inner margin from middle : a broad black hind- 

 marginal band : cilia grey. Hind wings ochreous-yellow, with 

 broad black hindmarginal band, narrowed to a band of black hairs 

 along inner margin, but more spread out at base ; cilia grey. 



I think this species will have to be made into another genus* 

 but place it here provisionally. I caught one specimen while out 

 with Mr. Barnard, who had not seen it before. 



Duaringa, Queensland ; in May. 



Family HYPSIDJE. 



Nyctemera secundiana, sp.nov. 



This species of Nyctemera was included in Meyrick's description 

 of N. tertiana. I got specimens of both species and of N. crescens 

 at Port Douglas, which I submitted to him. I believed with him 

 at the time that both were varieties of one species, which he 

 named new as N. tertiana. I now propose to separate the type as 

 above from the type tertiana. 



In secundiana the spot between the eyes and the two spots on 

 the collar are prominent and deep black ; in tertiana they are 

 faintly represented or altogether absent. In secundiana the 

 epaulettes are longer, better developed, and the black stripes more 

 prominently shown. In secundiana the white blotch in the hind- 

 wing is more a yellow-white and occupies less than one-third, 

 extending from just before centre of wing with \ depth of wing 

 hindmarginal border; in N. tertiana the whole of the hindwing 

 is more a snow-white, with an angular black border along hind- 

 margin and costa. 



X. secundiana is common at Brisbane, but though I have caught 

 hundreds of N. arnica and N. secundiana, I never caught the 

 form with the hindwing so broadly white, and to which I 

 propose to restrict Meyrick's name tertiana, in Brisbane. Mr. 

 Barnard takes N. secundiana but never tertiana at Rockhampton. 



