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DiASTiCTis (Selidosema) cremnodes, n. sp. 



Female, 39 mm. Head, palpi, antennse, thorax, and abdomen 

 dark-fuscous, lower half of face with an indistinct median bar. 

 Legs greyish, posterior and middle pair suffused above with 

 fuscous. Forewings triangular ; hindmargin strongly dentate, 

 rounded, oblique ; greyish-ochreous, densely strigulated with 

 black, appearing almost black ; three very indistinct lines, 

 blacker, outwards curved ; first from one-third of costa to one- 

 third inner margin; second from middle of costa to beyond middle 

 inner margin, passing through a V)lack discal dot ; third from 

 three-fourths costa to anal angle ; a waved black hindraarginal 

 line ; cilia whitish, obscurely barred with black. Hindwings 

 with hindmargin strongly dentate, colour as forewings, a black 

 interrupted line from costa near apex to anal angle, parallel to 

 hindmaro-in ; cilia as in forewings. 



One specimen, Blackwood, in May, Nearest to suasaria, Gn., 

 but larger and stouter built. The specimen before me not being 

 in the best of condition, the description is necessarily to some 

 extent defective. 



Ameloka idiomorpha, n. sp. 



Female, 30 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen 

 and legs whitish-grey, sparsely sprinkled with black scales. 

 Abdominal segments slightly ochreous-tinged. Forewings elong- 

 ate triangular ; costa straight, apex joointed, hindmargin 

 obliquely rounded; grey-wbitish, irrorated with light-fuscous and 

 minute black scales ; costal edge darker throughout ; a narrow 

 blackish waved shade from apex to below middle of disc above 

 inner margin, bordered beneath throughout with a distinct 

 narrow whitish shade ; cilia fuscous, darker at tips, Hindwings 

 whitish ; cilia grey. 



One fine specimen, Parkside (at a street lamp) in April. Very 

 dissimilar from all the species described from Australia. 



Chlexias melaxostrepta, n. sp. 



Male, 35 mm. Head, j)alpi, thorax, and legs ashy-grey- 

 whitish, face moderately rounded, without projection, crest of 

 thorax large and well-developed, anterior edge with an inter- 

 rupted black line, Antennse white, pectinations six, ochreous- 

 tinged, abdomen whitish-ochreous, becoming ochreous on the 

 three basal segments, Forewings elongate, narrow ; costa gently 

 arched ; apex round-pointed ; hindmargin obliquely rounded, 

 ashy-grey-whitish ; a black line from one-sixth costa obliquely 

 outwards to before middle ; a longitudinal black streak from 

 base below middle to anal angle, attenuated anteriorly, and with 

 a short angular projection upwards at origin, margined through- 



