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moderately arched, apex obtiise, termeu extremely obliquely 

 rounded : light brownish-ochreous, more or less sprinkled with 

 fuscous or dark fuscous, veins more or less streaked with 

 white, especially posteriorly ; a fine undefined line of black- 

 ish scales on submedian fold from base to about middle, in- 

 cluding well-marked black plical stigma ; -oblique lines of 

 blackish scales from costa at J and before j, not reaching 

 middle, sometimes hardly traceable ; second discal stigma 

 black edged with white ; some suffused black marks on apical 

 portion of costa and termen except at apex : cilia whitish- 

 ochreous, with two ochreous-brown lines becoming obsolete 

 towards tornus, between these whitish round apex. Hind- 

 wings under 1, cilia H; 3 and 4 sieparate ; pale grey: cilia 

 whitish-ochreous. 



Brisbane, Queensland, common in September ; Sydney, 

 New South Wales, in June, July, January, and March ; ten 

 specimens. 



Eutorna spintherias, n. sp. 



Male, female, 10-12 mm. Head and thorax ferruginous- 

 ochreous, face whitish-ochreous. Palpi with second joint 

 ochreous, more whitish towards base, thickened with appres- 

 sed scales, terminal joint rather shorter than second, whitish, 

 anterior edge dark fuscous. Antenna whitish, ringed with 

 dark grey. Abdomen dark grey, apex whitish. Forewings 

 elongate, rather narrow, costa moderately arched, apex 

 round-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; f erruginous- 

 ochreous, in male suffused with brown posteriorly except on a 

 median streak, in female wholly suffused with dark brown on 

 posterior half ; markings in male silvery-white, partly edged 

 with blackish, in female bright silvery-metallic, suffusedly 

 edged with dark fuscous; a median longitudinal streak from 

 base to middle, in male edged beneath by a blackish-fuscous 

 streak from near base to beyond middle ; a slender oblique 

 streak from costa before middle to | of disc, in female con- 

 tinued along costa to base ; a transverse-oval spot in disc at § ; 

 a subtriangular spot on costa before j ; an irregular suffused 

 apical spot : cilia light fuscous, with two dark fuscous lines 

 becoming obsolete towards tornus, round apex white between 

 these and ochreous-tinged at base. Hindwings under 1, cilia 

 1|; 3 and 4 connate or approximated ; grey, becoming darker 

 posteriorly ; cilia grey. 



Healesville and Gisborne, Victoria : Deloraine, Tasmania ; 

 in November and December, eleven specimens. The difference 

 in the sexes is curious, and at present appears quite unintelli- 

 gible. 



