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Hindwings: with only the last three lines, the inner one broader; the costal 

 area broadly pearl-white. 



In the S these red spots are centred with a few hoary grey scales ; in the ? 

 the spots are twice as large as in the c? and filled np with chalk-white, with a few 

 dark scales in their centre. 



Thorax, patagia, and basal segments of abdomen fawn-colonr, like wings ; 

 shoulders, vertex, and foce deeper ftiwn ; abdomen beneath, at sides, and the whole 

 anal segments whitish ; palpi and pectus pale grey, speckled with darker ; legs 

 whitish grey, ilecked with pnrplish at the joints. 



Underside of wings greyish pink, slightly flecked with dark scales ; the costal 

 spots vinous red ; the lines generally obsolete ; in the forewings the base of the 

 second and third lines is swollen into a large purplish vinous blotch between veins 

 1 and 2, a smaller blotch of the same colour appearing on costa of hindwings ; 

 inner margin of forewings glossy white; both wings with a marginal festoon of 

 claret-colonred lunules. 



Both above and below the ground-colour and markings are deeper and more 

 distinctly expressed in the ? ? than in the S 3 . 



Expanse of wings : 36—40 mm. 



2 SS, i S ?, from Townsville, Queensland, bred February lOiiO (F. P. 

 Dodd). 



13. Oenochroma simplex Warr. 



In Nov. ZooL. vol. iv., I describ&i at p. 206 the S of this species from 

 Roebonrne, W. Australia. I have lately seen a ? from Toowoomba, Queensland, 

 which, notwithstanding the difference in locality and certain slight divergences 

 in markings, I believe to be referable to the same species. The S described was 

 without any markings ; the present ? has on both wings a dark discal spot and 

 a very ill-defined grey outer line ; in the forewings this line runs from four-fifths 

 of costa to three-fourths of inner margin parallel to hindmargin ; and in front of 

 the discal spot there are also traces of an inner line reaching inner margin at 

 middle, nnd therefore approximated to outer lino ; in the hindwings there is one 

 line only, nearly in the middle of wing, distinctly sinuous, and touching the discal 

 spot. Fringe of forewings slightly brown-tinged between veins. Underneath, the 

 forewings have the large curved pnrplish blotch, as in the S, stretching from vein 6 

 tj below vein 2, both sexes therein differing from the otlier species of the genus. 



Expanse of wings : 56 mm. 



Subfamily DYSPHANIINAE. 

 14. Dysphania imperatrix sjjcc. nov. 

 Fori'winys : deep purple, crossed by three series of pale greenish yellow spots ; 

 first series antemedian, consisting of a distinct oblong blotch, oblique from subcostal 

 to median, and three indistinct diffnse p'lrple-stained blotches lying in a curve, 

 one between veins 2 and 3, the second on the submedian fold, the third below 

 submediun vein ; second series short, beyond cell only, formed of two almost 

 fontignons blotches on each side of vein Ti ; third series palest and plainest, 

 formed of two lunules from vein 7 to 5, two smaller ones nearer hindmargin 

 between O and 3, and three more, less defined, and nearer base, from 3 to inner 

 margin before anal angle. 



