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at its elbow ; secondaries iivith an elbowed black line crossing the wing behind the 

 discocellular spot ; a white diffused spot beyond the discal band ; pectus and legs 

 mouse coloured, venter ochreous. Expanse of wings, 2 inches, 6 lines. 



Queensland (Miskiu). 



POTAMOPHORA, Guenee. 



POTAMOPnOEA NEOCHEEINA, n. Sp. 



Primaries above not very unlike those of P. Manila ; purplish-brown towards 

 the base, crossed by two darker parallel oblique streaks, and bounded by a straight, 

 pale-edged, blackish bar, parallel to the outer margin ; discal area, from the bar just 

 mentioned, dull wood-brown, transversely striolated, and irregularly clouded with 

 dull olivaceous ; apical and external areas broadly dark greyish-olivaceous ; an 

 oblique line from the apex bounding a sub-pyriform, speckled, reddish-brown patch ; 

 also two or three small spots of the same colour, connected with black dots, on the 

 disc ; secondaries blue-black, becoming greyish and showing indications of transverse 

 dark striations towards the anal angle, abdominal area clothed with brown hairs ; 

 the entire central area occupied by a large snow-white patch ; fringe brown : body 

 smoky-brown : primaries below brown, glossy towards the inner margin ; the apical 

 area brilliantly shot with purple, limited internally by an abbreviated, irregular, 

 snow-white band, from the sub-costal nervure to the first median branch, its inner 

 edge, from the lower radial to the first median, trisinuated ; an indication of a white 

 discocellular spot ; secondaries snow-white, the costa irrorated with purplish-brown ; 

 a black spot uniting the costa to the centre of the costal nervure ; a very broad 

 dentate, sinuated, dark brown outer border, brilliantly shot with purple ; abdominal 

 area bi'own : body below brown, legs irrorated with grey. Expanse of wings, 3 

 inches, 9 lines. 



Queensland (Miskin). 



A most magnificent species, resembling the genus Neocliera in the 

 coloration o£ the under-surface. 



CALLIODES, Guenee. 

 Calliodes laxipes, n. sp. 



Wings above brown, crossed in the middle by a snow-white band, whicii tapers 

 to near the apex of primaries ; a broad dull green outer border, bounded internally 

 by a black line, and traversed by two parallel, festooned, black lines, broader and 

 more compressed in the secondaries ; primaries with a large black ocellus, bordered 

 with greenish externally and with white internally, having a slender yellow internal 

 iris, and a slender, metallic, steel-blue, C-shaped pupil, the interval between which 

 and the inner part of the iris is filled in with castaneous ; the costal area, a spot at 

 the base, an irregular sub-basal transverse streak, and two or three arched stripes 

 beyond the ocellus, dull shining green ; disco-apical area pale ochreous, crossed by 

 eight pearly-white spots parallel to the central band ; a group of lilacine scales near 

 external angle ; secondaries with an interrupted transverse streak of lilacine scales 

 on the disc ; fringe long, and snow-white ; head, thorax, and basal segments of ab- 

 domen mouse-grey, shading into brown at the back of the collar, tegula?, and abdominal 



