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dark- fuscous. Antennse brown- whitish, aj^ical half dark-fus- 

 cous. Thorax and abdomen brown-whitish. Legs dark-fus- 

 cous ; middle femora, posterior femora, and tibiae brown-whit- 

 ish irr orated with fuscous. Forewings triangular, costa 

 straight, so-mewhat arched towards base and apex, apex 

 rounded, termen rounded, slightly oblique; brown-whitish 

 with some fuscous irroration towards termen ; markings dark- 

 fusoous : an incomplete transverse line near base : a partly 

 dentate line from ^ costa to -g- dorsum, with an outward pro- 

 jection below middle : a fuscous dot with whitish centre in 

 disc at J, and a similar rather larger dot before middle ; a 

 finely dentate slender line from g costa to -| dorsum ; an 

 irregularly dentate brown-whitish sub-terminal line ; a series 

 of triangular dark-fuscous terminal dots between veins : cilia 

 brownish-fuscous. Hindwings with termen rounded ; colour 

 and markings as forewings, but without basal lines, and with 

 a single discal dot not pale-centred. 



Somewhat variable : my second specimen is darker, with 

 markings less developed. 



Type in Coll., Turner. 



N.Q., Kuranda, in April ( Dodd). Q., Sandgafce, near 

 Brisbane. Two specimens. 



Section ERASTRIAN^^:. 



Raparna trigramma, n. sp. 



(Trigrammos, thrice marked.) 



Male, 24 mm. Head, white ; face and palpi grey-whitish. 

 Antennae fuscous, towards base v>'hitish. Thorax, grey- 

 whitish. Abdomen, grey ; terminal segments clothed beneath 

 with dense fuscous hairs, which forn? lateral tufts. Legs 

 whitish-grey; posterior pair whitish. Forewings triangular, 

 costa nearly straight, apex tolerably pointed, termen slightly 

 bowed, slightly obliqiie ; grey-whitish, with three whitish 

 lines edged anteriorly with grey ; first, from \ costa to 

 mid-dorsum, nearly straight; second, from before mid-costa 

 to beyond mid-dorsum, slightly outwardly curved; third, from 

 I costa to f dorsum, rather more curved; a faint dentate 

 sub-terminal line from f costa, otherwise resembling pre- 

 ceding, but much fainter, and becoming obsolete towards 

 tornus ; a faint grev terminal line, cilia grey. Hindwings 

 with termen rounded ; grey towards base, and dorsum whit- 

 ish : cilia grey, towards tornus whitish. 



Type in Coll., LycU. 



N.S.W., Sydney, in INIarch ; one specimen. 



