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strongly arched, apex rounded, hindmargin rounded oblique ; 

 fuscous, strewn with darker fuscous and whitish scales ; markings 

 blackish ; a suffused mark near base forming an indistinct fascia ; 

 a thick streak along costa from base to beyond middle, posteriorly 

 attenuated ; a dot in disc at one-third, another immediately below 

 it ; an elongate spot midway but slightly beyond these ; two 

 spots immediately above this ; an indistinct crescentic series of 

 three spots immediately below apex of costal streak ; a streak 

 from costa at about three-fourths to anal angle, indented below 

 costa ; a hindoiarginal series of dots, apical portion more 

 elongate ; cilia fuscous, at base yellow with a distinct darker 

 median line. Hindwings and cilia ochn^ous, more or less fuscous- 

 tinged. In the female the markings are almost obliterated 

 through the density of the ground-colour, and the hindwings are 

 darker. 



This species is usually found at rest on trunks of EucaJy2:>tus, 

 and are consequently difficult to perceive on account of their 

 colour. Two specimens were taken at light, Parkside, in Sep- 

 tember ; and eight specimens in ( )ctol3er. 



Philobota platyptera, n. sp. 



Male, 36 mm. Head, thorax, and palpi slaty -grey. Abdomen 

 grey-whitish, posterior segments dull-orange. Antennae whitish- 

 ochreous. Legs fuscous, posterior pair ochreous-whitish. Fore- 

 wings elongate ovate, moderate, Inroad ; costa gently arched, apex 

 rounded, hindmargin obliquely rounded ; slaty-grey, extreme 

 costal edge blackish ; a broad white costal streak from base to 

 near apex, attenuated posteriorly, margined beneath throughout 

 by a dark slaty-grey shade, more pronounced anteriorly where it 

 becomes blackish ; cilia greyish, terminal-half lighter. Hindwings 

 ochreous-grey whitish ; cilia grey. 



One line specimen beaten from Styjihelia Sonderi at Teatree 

 Gully, S.A., 1st September. The largest of the genus, and very 

 distinct from any other species. 



Philobota Id^, n. sp. 



Male and female, 22-24 mm. Head and thorax orange, thorax 

 with an anterior light-fuscous spot. Palpi ochreous-whitish, 

 externally infuscated, except at base. Antennas fuscous. Abdomen 

 and legs pale yellowish-ochreous, anterior and middle pair infus- 

 cated. Forewdngs elongate, costa slightly arched, apex round- 

 pointed, hindmargin oblique ; shining snow-white, with brownish 

 markings ; a thick streak from l^ase to costa at three-fourths, 

 thence continued along costa to apex, leaving costal edge for its 

 own width wdiite ; extreme costal edge fuscous ; lower edge of 



