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but is certainly distinct. The much longer slender palpi, 

 and the snow-white spot on base of anterior coxae are in 

 themselves sufficient distinctions. 



Macalla zophera. 

 Macalla zophera, Turn., P.R.S.Q., 1903, p. 196. 

 Macalla mixtirosalis, Hmps., A.M.N.H. (7), xvii., p. 135 



(1906). 



Q., Duaringa, Brisbane. 



Macalla pentabela, n. sp. 

 nevza^eXoQ, with five arrows, or darts. 



$ 35 mm. Head greenish-fuscous. Palpi greenish- 

 fuscous with some whitish scales. Antennae fuscous ; in 

 (J dentate with fascicles of rather long cilia (H) ; antenna! 

 processes dark-fuscous. Thorax reddish- whitish ; patagia 

 and tegulse greenish. Abdomen whitish rather densely 

 irrorated with fuscous. Legs dark-fuscous mixed with 

 reddish and whitish scales ; tarsi annulated with whitish. 

 Forewings triangular, costa almost straight, a slight incision 

 at f preceded by a small glandular (?) thickening, apex 

 round-pointed, termen bowed, slightly oblique ; whitish 

 suffused with greenish and irrorated with dark fuscous ; 

 a strong tuft of raised scales in disc at ^, anteriorly whitish 

 posteriorly dark-fuscous ; a dark fuscous line from \ costa 

 to dorsum before middle ; a finely dentate slender fuscous 

 line edged posteriorly with whitish, bent first outwards 

 and then inwards to | dorsum ; median area whitish towards 

 costa ; a whitish subcostal tuft just beyond first line ; a 

 suffused dark-fuscous broad line from dorsal end of first 

 line curved outwards along edge of cell, and emitting five 

 slender streaks along veins 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 ; terminal 

 area whitish towards tornus ; a terminal series of whitish 

 dots on ends of veins ; cilia reddish-whitish barred with 

 fuscous. Hindwings with termen gently bowed ; whitish,^ 

 towards termen fuscous ; a short dentate line from f costa, 

 terminal dots and cilia as forewings. Underside of fore- 

 wings with dentate postmedian line well marked. 



Type in Coll. Goldfinch. 



N.S.W., Mount Kosciusko (5,000ft.), in January; one 

 specimen taken by Mr. G. N. Goldfinch. 



