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Mr. E. Meyrick on New Lepidoptera 
Praxis, Guen. 
P. marmarinopa, sp. 0. 
3 Q 28-32 mm. Abdomen in g with large expansible white 
genital tuft. Forewings fuscous, sprinkled with dark fuscous 
and whitish, and more or less mixed with pale ochreous-rosy ;_ sub- 
basal, first, second, and subterminal lines pale ochreous-rosy, 
obscurely edged with dark fuscous, waved ; orbicular, claviform, 
and reniform roundish, pale ochreous-rosy, ill-defined ; a terminal 
row of small pale ochreous-rosy spots, corresponding with similar 
spots in cilia. Hindwings fuscous, darker posteriorly ; a slightly 
curved whitish postmedian line, rosy-tinged on dorsal half ; sub- 
terminal line pale rosy on dorsal third; an interrupted pale rosy 
terminal line ; cilia fuscous, with pale rosy basal spots in indenta- 
tions, on dorsum and an apical patch white. 
Carnarvon, West Australia, and I have also one 
which probably comes from South Australia ; in October, 
two specimens. 
Carepata, Ochs. 
C. melaneschista, sp. n. 
? 39-43 mm. Forewings fuscous, densely irrorated with white, 
especially towards costa: veins more or less marked with black 
lines ; median line and margins of first and second darker, little 
distinct except towards costa, where they are very oblique, and on 
dorsum, where they are black and sometimes suffused ; a black 
longitudinal curved submedian streak from base to second line, a 
straight one above middle from first line to subterminal, and a 
short one towards termen above this, all sometimes obsolete; a 
blackish streak from second line on fold to termen below middle ; 
termen crenate. Hindwings snow-white, prismatic ; a transverse 
dark fuscous apical blotch, extending to below middle of termen. 
Duaringa, Queensland, in December (G. Barnard) ; 
three specimens. ; 
Tayas, Hub. 
Head somewhat rough-scaled. Antenne in ¢ ciliated. Palpi 
rather long, ascending, second joint with appressed scales, terminal _ 
moderate, pointed, erect. Thorax densely scaled. Abdomen not 
crested. Middle tibie spinose. Hindwings: 3 and 4 stalked, 
5 approximated to 4, 
This genus includes and supersedes Achwa, Hiib., and 
Ophiodes, Guen. 
