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narrowed and continued interruptedly to anal angle, more pro- 

 minent at extremities of veins ; a narrow blackish hindmarginal 

 line ; cilia shining white, with a coppery tinge at apex, and a 

 suffused fuscous dividing line. Underside of forewings fuscous ; 

 a suffused white streak along costa from Vjase to five sixths ; a 

 tuft of yellow hairs near base, Hinclwings iridescent-whitish, 

 costa sprinkled with blackish, an irregular roundish blackish 

 patch at apex ; a transverse cliscal spot, scarcely ]Derceptible 

 above. 



Parkside, 8. A., in October (at light). 



Ortiiosia mesombra, n. sp. 



Male and female, 31-35 mm. Head, thorax, and palpi greyish- 

 ochreous, palpi whitish beneath, with a blackish median band, 

 terminal joint whitish. Thorax with a narrow blackish band 

 beyond middle. Antennae greyish-ochreous, reddish beneath. 

 Ciliations one-half. Abdomen and legs grey- whitish, spotted with 

 blackish, tarsi and tibia? with obscure whitish rings. Forewings 

 moderate, posteriorly dilated ; costa nearly straight, hindmargin 

 rounded, oblique ; greyish-ochreous in male, in female wholly 

 suffused with fuscous ; an orange-red spot close to base ; a short 

 irregular blackish line from costa to this spot ; an indistinct 

 angulated fuscous line from one-fourth costa to near middleof inner 

 margin ; a wedge-shaped dark fuscous streak in middle of disc, 

 from two-fifths to five-sixths, dilated and touching costa, ter- 

 minated by an irregular line from costa at five-sixths ; a small 

 round reddish sj)ot at beginning, and larger somewhat lunate 

 spot in middle of the wedge-sha|Ded streak ; a fuscous dentate 

 line from costa immediately above lunate spot, and passing round 

 it to three-fourths inner margin, between this line and termina- 

 tion of wedge-shaped spot, the wing is reddish-tinged in male ; 

 an interrupted waved hindmarginal line ; cilia-greyish ochreous. 

 Hindwings iridescent whitish, in female suffused with fuscous at 

 apex and along hindmargin ; an indistinct curved series of 

 elongate marks, placed on veins, in middle of wing ; an obscure 

 fuscous discal spot, both markings more noticeable on underside. 



A pretty species, not recalling any other ; the sexes are some- 

 what dissimilar, but it cannot be well mistaken. 



Parkside (at light) in October ; also from Blackwood, S.A. 



PSEUDOPANTHKRA HABROCOSMA, n. Sp. 



Male, 35-38 mm. Head blackish-fuscous, palpi and antenn;e 

 reddish-fuscous, anterior legs dark-fuscous, posterior and middle 

 pairs whitish-ocherous, thorax reddish-fuscous, abdomen orange. 

 Forewings elongate, costa strongly arched at base, apex acute, 

 hindmargin sinuate beneath apex, thence strongly bowed, oblique; 

 fuscous-reddish, irrorated with ochreous and lead-coloured scales. 



