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to one-third of wing. Under-surface of forewings with black dot 

 close to median, and discal spot well defined ; two chain lines dark 

 fuscous clearly defined, circular and more or less parallel to hind- 

 margin ; a number of like lines faint and indistinct between darker 

 lines. Under-surface of hindwings with five transverse circular 

 chain lines as forewings, first basal suffused into several broken 

 lines and a small dot, only on costal half of wing, others very 

 definite, fourth containing orchreous fuscous dots iu lunular 

 waves, ground colour, darker over hindraargin. Lucas-Rye 

 Bellenden Ker Expedition. 



HRYOPHILA VEOETATA, NOV. SP. 



J 22 1)1^ ^\{. Head grey, forehead with a black dot. Palpi 

 short, smoky grey. Antennae smoky fuscous. Thorax grey 

 with scales of black and black spots on dorsum. Abdomen 

 ochreous fuscous. Forewings costa straight, apex rounded, 

 hindmargin rounded, creamy grey, dotted with Hack, and 

 strongly marked with black and grey markings. Forewings 

 with costal band freely speckled with grey to beyond h ; a wavy 

 transverse chain line near to base ; a second and darker fascia 

 shouldered from basal line along costa and transve:'-ely to ^ 

 inner margin, contracted in middle ; a wavy ziczac fascia from 

 J costa to ^ inner margin, angled outwardly before inner 

 margin,. suft'used outwardly chiefly along inner margin to a wavy 

 line from ;.? costa to ^ inner margin, concave below middle and 

 with discal ring nearer costa towards apex ; beyond this are 

 four transverse chain wavy, denticulate lines, the angles of 

 lines joining and suffused before apex, the third is an accumu- 

 lation of suffused dots, and the fourth or hind iiiarginal is 

 a row of strong spots. Cilia creamy grey. Hindwings golden 

 ochreous with dark fuscous border, gradually shading off in- 

 wardly. Cilia golden ochreous with a dividing fuscous bar. 



Brisbane. 



PLUSIAD.E. 



YEROXGPONGA, NOV. GtN. 



Head thickly clothed with short hairs. Tongue well deve- 

 loped. Antennae in J filiform, very short, single cilia. Palpi 

 long, subascending, second joint long, covered with dense brush 

 of hair, third joint nearly as long as second, clothed with very 

 short hairs, cylindrical, semi-club shaped. Femora densely 

 hairy. Posterior tibiae spurs very long and developed. Fore- 

 wings 2 from before f^, 3, 4 and 5 approximate, 6 froiu near 9, 

 7 and 8 from 9. Hindwings 3, 4 and 5 approximate at base, 6 

 and 7 approximate, 8 approaches cell close to base. 



