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with black ; costa blackish towards base ; a very thick ])lack 

 3treak from near base of inner margin to beyond middle of disc 

 curved upwards and attenuated at both extremities, posteriorly 

 edged with paler ; a similar black streak from apex to anal angle, 

 attenuated at apex, edged as other ; a hindmarginal row of small 

 black dots. Hindwings with colour as in forewings ; a very in- 

 distinct line from two-thirds inner margin goino- towards costa, 

 but not reaching it. 



Eucla, West Australia. One specimen in June. An ab- 

 normal-looking species, more like a small Dichromodes in ap- 

 pearance. 



NeARCHA PSEUDOPHAES, 11. sp. 



Male, 32 mm. Head, thorax, legs, and abdomen greyish- 

 ochreous ; palpi two and a-half, black, at base white. Antennoi^ 

 whitish, pectinations twelve. Forewings elongate ; costa arched 

 at base, slightly sinuate beyond middle, hindmargin nearly 

 straight, slightly oblique ; ochreous-grey, with scattered fine dark- 

 fuscous scales ; a transverse straight row of three black dots, 

 from one-third costa to above middle of wing, edged anteriorly 

 with a whitish-ochreous streak ; a row of black dots from costa 

 at three-fourths to inner margin at two-thirds, angulated inwards 

 below middle ; each spot is edged posteriorly with whitish, and 

 beyond this a pale reddish-ochreous suffusion throughout; a large 

 black discal dot, white centred, midway between the two rows of 

 dots ; a row of black dots at extremities of veins ; cilia ochreous- 

 grey. Hindwings with hindmargin nearly straight ; whitish- 

 grey, fuscous-tinged ; an indistinci dark -fuscous discal dot ; a 

 hindmarginal row of black dots ; cilia as in forewings. Hind- 

 wings beneath without tufts, but with a well-defined black discal 

 dot. 



Near D. cnrtaria, Gn., but differs in l)lack shorter palpi, c^'c. 

 Two sy^ecimens at Blackwood, S.A. 



Dichromodes strophiodes, n. sp. 



Male and female, 22-25 mm. Head and thorax dark ashy 

 grey, thorax with a tranverse black median band ; palpi three and 

 a-quarter, black. Antennae, abdomen, and legs dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen with yellowish segmental margins, tibiae ringed with 

 white, antennal ciliations three and a-half. Forewings triangular; 

 costa straight, arched at base; hindmargin slightly waved, bowed, 

 oblique ; ashy-grey ; a suffused blackisli triangular spot midway 

 between base and first line ; first line straiglit from one-fourth 

 costa to one-fourth inner margin, sufiiisedly edged on each side 

 with pale-ochreous ; second line straight from costa one-third to 

 inner margin before middle ; third line from two-thirds costa to two- 

 thirds inner margin, with a strong projection outwards in middle, 



