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two-thirds inner margin, strongly angulated outwards below 

 middle and emitting two teeth so as to touch hindmarginal 

 fascia ; a thick hindmarginal fascia strongly curved inwards 

 above anal angle ; a hindmarginal row of white lunules ; cilia 

 whitish. Hindwings orange ; a broad dark fuscous hindmarginal 

 band ; broadest at apex, obsolete on lower-half of hindmargin ; 

 cilia orange, along band fuscous. 



Mr. Meyrick, to whom I submitted this specimen, informs me 

 that it is referable to this family and is a very abnormal species ; 

 it is very handsome and somewhat resembles a llednota. One 

 specimen from Arthurton, Yorke Peninsula, in September. 



BOTYDID.i.. 



Sedenia erythrura, n. sp. 



Female, 28 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and abdomen 

 whitish-ochreous, reddish-tinged, palpi whiter beneath. Anterior 

 legs fuscous (others broken). Forewings elongate, posteriorly 

 dilated ; costa slightly sinuate beyond middle ; hindmargin 

 rounded, oblique, whitish-ochreous, reddish-tinged with darker 

 reddish markinsfs ; a thick suffused streak alono" costa from base 

 to apex, leaving extreme costal edge ochreous-whitish ; a rather 

 large discal dot beyond middle, indistinctly centred with white ; 

 a streak from five-sixths costa to anal angle, slightly curved in- 

 wards ; a small patch at anal angle touching this streak ; a 

 moderate hindmarginal fascia from apex to anal angle, enclosing 

 a well-defined streak of ground-colour between this and preceding 

 line ; cilia ochreous-whitish, towards base tinged with reddish, 

 and mixed wdth blackish towards tips. Hindwings ochreous- 

 w^hitish, reddish-tinged ; a suffused reddish hindmarginal line ; 

 cilia as in forewings, but becoming paler towards anal angle. 

 The markings on the posterior portion of wing being in part 

 obliterated, the description may need expansion. 



One specimen, Belair, December 28, 1892. 



SCOPARIAD.E. 



SCOPARIA LEUCOMELA, 71. sp. 



Male and female, 22-25 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, antennae, 

 and legs fuscous ; legs suffusedly irrorated with, and posterior 

 pair wholly, white ; al^domen dark -grey, basal segment orange. 

 Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa nearly straight, 

 hindmargin obliquely rounded, silver-grey, costal edge very 

 narrowly whitish throughout ; a blackish longitudinal line above 

 middle, from base to three-fourths, where it is lost in tlie ground- 

 colour ; all veins tending to be outlined with black, interspaces 

 filled with white, giving the wing the appearance of alternate 



