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LlODES NEUllOGRAMMA, 11, SD. 



(NeurogirininioH, with well-marked nerves.) 

 Male, 32-33 mm. Head browu. mixed with whilish. 

 Palpi porrect, rather long (IH), second joint with loose spread- 

 ing hairs above and beneatli ; fuscons, upper edge whitisli. 

 Antennas grey; in male with a doul)le row of long pectina- 

 tions (6), inner row somewhat shorter, not quite reaching 

 apex. Thorax brown, mixed with whitish. Abdomen ochre- 

 ous-whitish. Legs ochreous-whitish, anterior pair suffused 

 with fuscous-brown internally, and with a posterior tibial 

 tuft. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa nearly straight, 

 apex rounded-rectangular, termen at first straight and 

 scarcely oblique, then obliquely rounded; brownish-fuscous; 

 costa and all veins marked by strong whitish lines; costal 

 edge fuscous to J ; cilia fuscous, barred with whitish. Hind- 

 wings broad, termen rounded, somewhat sinuate beneath 

 apex ; in male with a pencil of long whitish -ochreous hairs 

 from base of dorsum on under-surface ; ochreous-w^hitish ; ter- 

 men suffused with fuscous at apex ; cilia whitish. 

 Type in Coll., Tyijell. 



v., Geelong, in November : one specimen. T., George- 

 town ; one specimen. 



Section HYPENIN^. 



Catada acrospila, n. sp. 



( Acros pilos , with apical spot.) 



Male, 20 mm. Head brown-whitish. Palpi brown- 

 whitish, irrorated with dark-fuscous; terminal joint with a 

 broad median, dark-fuscous ring : base of second joint dai-k- 

 fuscous externally. Aiiteniice whitish, towards base dark- 

 fuscous; in male with rather long ciliations (2). Thorax 

 dark-fuscous; collar brown-whitish. Abdomen brown, irro- 

 rated with dark-fuscous; first two segments dark-fuscous. 

 Legs ochreous-whitish; anterior pair fuscous. Forewings tri- 

 angular, costa nearly straight, apex rounded, termen bowed, 

 oblique, crenulate ; brown, suffused with dark-fuscous ; costa 

 with brown- whitish strigulae at }, beyond middle, and near 

 apex ; the last ends in a large whitish reniform sub-apical 

 blotch, from which an indistinct pale line proceeds to tornus ; 

 a series of blackish dots on veins close to termen ; a slender 

 dark-fuscous terminal line ; cilia dark-fuscous with obscure 

 paler bars. Hindwings with termen rounded, dentate : pale 

 brown with some dark-fuscous scales towards base; a fine 

 dentate transverse fuscous line at f. a fine fuscous terminal 

 line; cilia brown, on dentations fuscous. 



Type in Coll.. Turner. 



N.Q., Geraldton, in May; one specimen. 



