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44. SCORDYLIA EMPOKIAS, n. Sp. 



[e'/ATTo/aos, a traveller, wanderer]. 



Plemyria emporias, Meyr. MS. 



<? ?, 17-22 min. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax pale 

 ochreous-brown. Palpi horizontally porrect, very long, 3, 

 densely clothed with short rough scales. Abdomen above 

 reddish-ochreous, edges of segments blackish, toward apex and 

 at sides greyish. Legs whitish, irrorated with fuscous ; anterior 

 pair mostly fuscous. Fore wings elongate-tx'iangular, hind 

 margin rather strongly bowed, oblique, slightly sinuate beneath 

 apex ; pale ochreous-brown ; basal area, median band, and a 

 vague suffusion along hind margin bi-ownish ; markings blackish ; 

 an outwardly curved line from costa at ^ to inner margin at ^, 

 bounding basal area ; a second line parallel to this, oi)Solete 

 towards costa ; anterior line bounding median band from costa 

 at ^, thence nearly straight to inner margin at | ; posterior line 

 from costa before j, obtusely angulated in disc, thence concave to 

 inner margin at | ; median band contains a blackisli irroration 

 towards the inner margin, and a blackish ring in centre of disc; 

 an irregular suffused blotch in disc towards apex, containing a 

 whitish spot, from which proceeds an obsolete line, represented 

 by several dots to before anal angle ; an interrupted terminal 

 line ; cilia pale ochreous-brown, with a few fuscous scales. Hind 

 wings rather narrow, hind margin rounded ; brown-whitish 

 without markings ; cilia brown-whitish. 



Q., Nambour, Brisbane, two specimens in November; N.S.W., 

 Sydney, in December (Lyell). 



45. ScoRDVLiA Decipiens. 



Cidaria decipiens, Butl. Tr.E.S., 1886, p. 438. 

 Scordylia decipiens, Meyr. P.L.S. N.S.W., 1890, p. 818. 

 Type in British Museum. 

 N.S.W., Sydney. 



Genus 11. Scotocyma, nov. 

 [rrKUTOKu/xos, darkly waved]. 

 Face with short cone of scales. Palpi ascending obliquely, or 

 closely appressed to frons, rather short, rough-scaled. Antennae 



