44 STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



streak along median vein, ending in an irregular fuscous 

 annulus before mid-disc ; subterminal and terminal lines 

 and cilia as fore wings. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q., Kuranda, near Cairns, in November ; one 

 specimen received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Marasmia loxodesma, n. sp. 

 Xo^odeajLiog, obliquely banded. 



^ 14 mm. Head and thorax fuscous-whitish. Palpi 

 fuscous, base sharply white. Antennae whitish ; ciliations 

 in ^ minute. Abdomen fuscous-whitish, base whitish. 

 Legs whitish ; anterior pair fuscous. Fore wings triangular, 

 costa straight almost to apex, apex round-pointed, termen 

 bowed, oblique ; whitish with some fuscous suffusion at 

 base and on costal part of disc, lines fuscous ; a line from J 

 costa, obliquely curved in disc to | dorsum ; a similar line 

 from costa before middle to dorsum before middle ; a 

 third line from f costa to | dorsum ; a subterminal line 

 from costa shortly before this, sinuate, not reaching tornus ; 

 a fuscous terminal line ; cilia fuscous, bases narrowly 

 whitish. Hindwings with termen gently rounded ; as 

 fore wings. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.A., Port Darwin, in October ; one specimen received 

 from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Metasia phragmatias. 

 Metasia phragmatias, Low., Tr. R.S.S.A., 1903, p. 66. 

 Metasia diplophragma, Turn., Tr. R.S.S.A., 1908, p. 97. 

 N.Q., Townsville. 



Metasia orphnopis, n. sp. 



oQcpVioniq, dusky. 



$ 9 20 mm. Head and thorax fuscous. Palpi 3 ; 

 fuscous, beneath white. Antennae fuscous ; ciliations in 

 (J \. Abdomen fuscous, beneath whitish. Legs fuscous- 

 whitish ; anterior pair fuscous, tarsi annulated with whitish. 

 Forewings triangular, costa slightly sinuate, arched towards 

 apex, apex rounded, termen sinuate, oblique ; fuscous ; 



