BY E. MEYRfCK. 637 



median shade rather darker, nearly straight, but very faint and 

 often hardly traceable ; a blackish discal dot ; sometimes two or 

 three small adjacent ferruginous spots near beyond second line in 

 middle, partially blackish-edged ; a hindmarginal row of black 

 dots. Hindwings in <J clothed with dense hairs towards base 

 beneath, hindmargin rounded ; colour and markings as in fore- 

 wings, but first line absent. 



Duaringa, Queensland; received commonly from Mr. G. Barnard. 

 Differs from all the rest by the dense hairs on the undersurface of 

 the hindwings in the £. 



63. Deil. oenias, n.sp. 



(J. 27 mm. Head reddish-ochreous, a band on vertex behind 

 antennae white ; face smooth. Antennal pectinations in g 10, 

 apical ^ simple. Femora glabrous. Forewings with hindmargin 

 straight on upper half, rounded beneath ; 1 1 anastomosing with 

 1 2 ; pale reddish-ochreous, with fine scattered grey strigulae and a 

 few blackish scales ; costal edge more yellowish ; first line and 

 median shade grey, straight ; a black discal dot on median shade; 

 second line grey, sinuate, very indistinct, hardly traceable ; sub- 

 terminal appearing as a grey- whitish dentate line on a patch below 

 middle, edged anteriorly by a blackish suffusion preceded by a 

 deep reddish suffusion, and posteriorly by a grey suffusion, else- 

 where represented by a series of cloudy blackish-grey dots ; a 

 hindmarginal series of black dots. Hindwings with hindmargin 

 rounded, slightly waved ; colour and markings as in forewings, 

 but first line absent, discal dot following median shade, second 

 line straighter, markings representing subterminal line much 

 reduced or partially obsolete. 



Georges Bay, Tasmania ; in January, two specimens. The 

 white band on the vertex of the reddish-ochreous head distinguishes 

 it easily from the three preceding, to which it is otherwise nearly 

 related. 



64. Deil. lithodora, n.sp. 



(J(J>. 18-22 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, back of crown more 

 ochreous, face shortly rough-haired, forming short tuft beneath. 



