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Hindwings whitish-ochreoiis suffused with light dull rosy-pink ; a 

 prteterininal row of rather large blackish dots ; cilia whitish. 



Port Moresby, New Guinea (Kowald) ; also from 

 Queensland ; three specimens. 



Prionojjhora taphrcuta, n. sp. 



^. 24 m.m. Head fuscous. Thorax fuscous-whitish, with some 

 dark fuscous dots, collar ferruginous-brown. Abdomen pale greyish- 

 ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, gradually dilated, apex 

 obtuse, termen bowed, oblique ; fuscous irrorated with white, 

 suffused with white in disc and between veins posteriorly ; all veins 

 marked with blackish-fuscous lines ; a dark fuscous transverse discal 

 mark beyond middle, space between this and second line more 

 fuscous through absence of white suffusion ; second line blackish- 

 fuscous, from f of costa to g of dorsum, obtusely prominent posteri- 

 orly at I and in middle : cilia fuscous, whitish-sprinkled, obscurely 

 darker-barred. Hindwings light fuscous, somewhat whitish-suffused 

 anteriorly, with a terminal band of rather dark fuscous suffusion ; 

 cilia whitish. 



Sydney, New South Wales (Raynor) ; one specimen. 



Prionophora allopis, n. sp. 



^ 9 • 26-29 m.m. Head and thorax fuscous, suffusedly irrorated 

 with whitish ; thorax with small anterior crest. Abdomen pale 

 greyish -ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, gradually dilated, 

 apex obtuse, termen bowed, oblique ; fuscous, suffusedly irrorated 

 with white ; veins more or less strongly marked with blackish- 

 fuscous lines ; in (J a transverse suffused blackish spot from costa at 

 ^ ; first and second lines indistinct, fuscous, first somewhat curved, 

 second from beyond middle of costa to beyond middle of dorsum, 

 strongly curved outwards from ^ to below middle ; a grey discal spot 

 containing two black scale-tufts placed in this curve, in § surrounded 

 with obscure brownish suffusion ; in 5 small scale-tufts on middle of 

 first line, and on second line below middle and near dorsum ; a sub- 

 apical streak of darker suffusion ; in $ a series of blackish dots 

 before termen : cilia fuscous sprinkled with whitish. Hindwings 

 whitish-fuscous, becoming fuscous towards dorsum and termen, in 

 (^ suffused with whitish towards base, and with a terminal band of 

 dark fuscous suffusion ; cilia in (^ white, in $ fuscous- whitish. 



Kewell, Victoria (Kershaw) ; two specimens. 



