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parts in the male, cilia white with square brown spots at the ex- 

 tremities of the veins. Hind-wings with a similar cilia on the upper 

 part, pure white cilia at the anal angle. Underside, thorax and 

 abdomen white, wings streaked with white. 



Expanse of wings <J 4y|j, ? 5^ inches. 

 a. Queensland {6 9 types). b. New South Wales. 



Allied to S. lituratus (Walker). 



1298. Strigoides tenebrifer. 



Cosstis tcnelnifer. Walker : xxxii. 585 (1865). 

 Type. Moreton Bay, in B. M. 

 a. N. Australia (2). 



1299. Strigoides hyphinoe. 



Phalana hyphinoe. Cramer: Pap. Exot., ii. 91, pi. 154, f. B (1777). 

 Bojnbyx hyphinoe. Fabr. : Sp. Ins., ii. i8r. 64 (1781). 



Mant. Ins., ii. 116. 81 (1787). 



Ent. Syst, iii. 436. 91 (1793). 



Oliv. : Enc. Meth., v. 56. 118 (1789). 



PhalcEna-Bombyx hyphinoe. Gmel. : ed. Syst. Nat., i. 5. 2417. 512 (1788). 

 Chalcidica hyphinoe. Hiibner: Verz. Schm., p. 197 (1816). 



Zeuzera hyphinoe. Walker: vii. 1535 (1856). 

 Zeiizera alboatra. WalJcer: xxxii. 589(1865). 



Type {alboatra). Moreton Bay, in B. M. 

 a. North Australia. 



1300. Strigoides decoratus. n. sp. 



? Brown tinged with pinkish, thorax with a broad whitish band on 

 each side, abdomen white at the base, wings with some white hairs 

 at their base. Fore-wings with four longitudinal bands of more or 

 less confluent, large white spots, ist along costa, the spots largest 

 along the middle and gradually becoming sm.aller towards each 

 extremity, 2nd from middle of cell to apex, those in the cell small 

 and becoming large and double towards the apex, 3rd just below the 

 middle, of a uniform size and double, from the base to the outer 

 margin, 4th along the hinder margin. Hind-wings with some white 

 on the outer margin and with white cilia. Underside with two 

 bands of spots on each wing and some spots near the outer margin. 



Expanse of wings 5J inches. 

 a. Swan River. 



A much damaged example without abdomen of this beautiful 

 species, allied to nothing I know of. 



Genus ZEUZERA. Latr. : Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxiv., p. 186 



(1804). 

 Hinnoeya. Moore : Lep. Ceylon, ii. p. 153 (1882). 



1301. Zeuzera scalaris. 



Hepialus scalaris. Fabr.: Sp. Ins., ii. 208. 4 (1781). 



Mant. Ins., ii. 135. 7 (1787). 



