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indications of white lines (bordering tlie ante- and iiostmediaii) liecnino cmispiciuiiis only at tlicir costal oiid. 

 Angalnuiga River and 1 o tVom Biagi. 



X. interrufata Warr. (l'i; I.), colleeted witli the type series ol' iiKiiin.^fira. is lai'gcr and niore variegatiML interrufaUi. 

 with reddish-brown suft'usions: the sidjordinate lines better expressed, notahly just outside the postmedian, 

 where a paler band is boiinded by a dark line and bisected by anotliei-, Occurs also on :\Iount Coliatli. 



X. cerasina Warr. (2() b). An elegant siieeies. the pale parts aimost entirely sufl^^used with pink. the rerashm. 

 dark lirown basal ]iateh anfl l)roa(l median band with a tinge of oHve. Angabunga River and district. 



X. succerasina Proul. t'ounded on a ; iVom .Alount Goliath, is ])erha))s another lorm oi' rera.'ii,>/i. Larger surarasina. 

 (4S mm), less bright. the pink sutVu.sinn sHgliter. a subbasal l)and-like shade obliterating it tili near the median 

 band: this band more uniform in width, the antemedian less angulated. Hindwing witJi the dark ground-eolour 

 clouding the pink part (recalling inicrriiptain). A V from Mount Tafa. X. \\'. Owen Stanley Range, agrees es- 

 sentially, though the subbasal band is le.ss strongly developed and tlie antemedian line somewhat more dentate. 

 thus slightly intermcdiate. 



X. lucirivata Warr. (2(1 b). l'robal)ly near monasfica, but much more variegated. Forewing with basal hiririvata. 

 patch and especially median band more definitely darkened; postmedian line i'unning out ward from costa to 

 3rd radial; distal area with conspicuous macular pattern accompanying the subterminal, Hindwing with post- 

 median strongly excurved in its central part; distal area paler, with macular subterminal markings, Ujijjer 

 Aroa River (type) and Biagi. — buntibasa form. nov. (20 b) will probably prove to be a .separate race, or jmssibly inudibusa. 

 even a species. Larger; forewing with antemedian line more direct, postmedian with its white accompanying 

 line thickened anteriorly ; hindwing with the central prominence of the postmedian less strong; botli wings 

 with distal area darkened. the subterniinal and its spots aimost obliterated. Buntilia.sa district, Kratke Mount- 

 ains, 4000— 5000 feet. .Tuly lii;}2 (F. Shaw Mayer). 1 C in the Tring .Museum. 



C. Section : a n t e n n a o f j c i 1 i a t e d . g e n e r a 1 1 y i n f a s c i c 1 e s w h i c h a r i s e f r o m 

 t e e t h Ol' ]i r o m i n e n e e s. 



X. percrassata 11'^///,'. (2(i b). Readily recognizable by the sharply baiuled ibrewing with the markings percra.isata. 

 aimost s t r a i g h t , inebiding even the subterminal, which is bounded on both .sides by complete dark shades; 

 the median band usually consists of two stripcs separated by a pale stripe. but occasionally forms a solid dark 

 area. The type, from South Australia, is intcrmediate, the pale central part restrieted to the region of the cell- 

 dot. Tasmania to Brisbane. 



X. vacuaria 'imn. (2<ia) is more variable, but the shape of the median band (though not its breadth racitaria. 

 nor its intensity) is tolerably constant; for the differentiation oi' ■■ifrioiiosfifa see bclow. Tlie name-type is the 

 "fulvous" form with verv little marking in the distal area and somewhat recalls the ab. tl/cdcnii of the Palac- 

 arctic quadrifasiata Cl. (Vol. 4. p. 22(i). though the basal patch is also dark. — ab, quartanata Guen. (= para- iiuartancila. 

 delpha Loirer) (2ß a) lacks the warm buff coloui'ing anfl Juis a cons])icuous. generally divided white band outside 

 the median band and more or less strong daik shades bordering the sul)terminal. Intermediates are so rare that 

 some authors have assumed that we were dealing with two sjiecies, Frec{uent in l)oth forms from Tasmania 

 (loc, typ.) to Victoria and in West Australia, Walkers Tasmanian "nolutata" belongs here and. thnnigh an 

 error in labelling, must have misled Turner into an inaccurate synonymy; the 3 typical .whitata (both .sexes) 

 are striimosata. 



X. imperviata Walk. (2(> c) forms such an obvious link between vacuaria and strumosata that all threc imperviaia. 

 must be referred to the same genus; ])crhaps a revision by the genitalia or other important charactcrs will result 

 in the transference of several other so-eulled Eiiphijia of the Australian fauna. .Much smaller than either raciiaria 

 or strumosata (the $ here figured is one of the largest examples known to nie), nearest to strumosata in appeararce; 

 palpus less long (scarcely IVi, as against aimost 2), antennal teeth and ciliation of the q intermediatc towards 

 those of vacuaria. The only further distiiu;tions from strumosata. apart fiom size, seem to be the less sharply 

 marked imderside and the form of the median band, which is proximally more curved (but without the pro- 

 nounced tooth at the fold) and throws out two longer teeth from its distal lobe, occasionally, though rarely, so 

 long as to touch the first dark line of the distal area. South Au.stralia (type linm .\(lelaide) to Xew South Wales 

 and West Australia. 



X. argodesma Mcyr. (2fi c). Antemia of 1 somewhat dentate, with the ciliation nearly 1, Xot \\\\\W.e anjodesma. 

 some A'. impi rriatit. palpus sinülar (Ldvvkk calls it 1, which is cerlainly an underestimate. while .Meyrick'.s 

 "1%" errs in the opposite direction) and 1 shall not be surprised if tli(> two sup])o.scd .species are found to inter- 

 grade. Characterized 1)\' the white grt)und-colour. the veins tinged with pinkish brown. some ])inkish sulTusion 

 at the proximal and distal sides rcspectively of the ante- and postmedian white bands, the termen more definitely 



