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Var. b. As var. a, but the wings are without the apical grey spot. 

 Long. excl. tegm., 7 millim. Exp. tegm., 20 millim. 



Hab. Australia; Peak Downs. 



Allied to P. transversa, AValk., but much larger, and 

 always to be recognised by the different coloration of the 

 wings. 



Platyhrachys insignis, n. sp. 



Head and thorax above brownish, speckled with ochraceous ; 

 face ochraceous ; abdomen and legs sanguineous ; apices of the 

 femora, tibiae — excluding base — and the tarsi, fiiscous ; anal 

 appendages to the abdomen ochraceous. Tegmina ochraceous, 

 much spotted with fuscous, especially on the costal and claval 

 margins, and the apical area ; the whole disk is thickly, often con- 

 fluently, spotted with paler fuscous. Wings dark fuscous, the base 

 narrowly sanguineous, and with two prominent greyish white spots 

 on the apical margin. 



Long. excl. tegm., 9 millim. Exp. tegm., 22 millim. 



Hah. Australia ; Peak Downs. 

 This species may be superficially recognised by the 

 two apical greyish white spots to the wings. 



Platyhrachys cerata, n. sp. 



Head and thorax above brownish ochraceous ; abdomen ochra- 

 ceovis ; face obscure ochraceous or pale olivaceous ; legs testaceous ; 

 apices of femora, subconfluent spots to tibife, and apex of the abdo- 

 men, dark fuscous. Tegmina bronzy brown, with an oblique 

 transverse greyish fascia, extending for a little beyond the middle 

 of the costa half across the disk, and subobsoletely continued by 

 greyish spots to inner margin ; a distinct greyish spot on costa at 

 apex, and a less distinct spot near apex of inner margin. Wings 

 ochraceous, with a fuscous outer marginal fascia, which is broadest 

 at apex. 



Long. excl. tegm., 7 millim. Exp. tegm., 22 millim. 



J lab. Samoa Islands and Australia ; Peak Downs. 



Dardiis alhomaculatus, n. sp. 



Head, thorax, and legs, brownish ochraceous ; abdomen pale 

 sanguineous ; pronotum, with the posterior margin and a central 

 linear fascia, greyish white; apices of the femora, anterior and 

 intermediate tibiae and tarsi, and bases and apices of the posterior 

 tibi;c, fuscous. Tegmina brownish ochraceous; a claval streak and 

 spots, a shoit broad fascia between clavus and costa, a broad 



