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white irrorated with dark-fuscous : a dark fuscous spot mixed 

 with ferruginous red on costa near base ; a dark-fuscous spot 

 on dorsum near base, reaching to margin of cell ; lines slen- 

 der, wavy, dark-fuscous ; first from J costa to J dorsum, edged 

 anteriorly with white; second from | costa to § dorsum, edged 

 posteriorly with white ; a fuscous discal spot, beneath mid-costa : 

 an irregularly dentate dark-fuscous sub-terminal shade, ill- 

 defined anteriorly, sharply defined posteriorly, with a biden- 

 tate projection below middle ; a terminal series of triangular 

 dark-fuscous spots on veins ; cilia fuscous-whitish, with a fus- 

 cous median line. Hindwings with termen rounded : fuscous ; 

 cilia fuscous, apices whitish. 



Type in Coll., Turner. 



v.. Sea Lake: two specimens taken on March 31st by 

 Mr. D. Goudie. 



Amphiclasta, nov. 

 f AmjjhiMaatos, broken all round.) 

 Face with dense protuberant scales. Tongue developed. 

 Antennae in male (unknown). Palpi moderate, porrect ; second 

 joint clothed with dense projecting scales : terminal joint very 

 short, obtuse. Thorax and abdomen stout, the former densely 

 hairy beneath, and with a slight posterior crest above. Tarsi 

 spinulose : posterior tarsi with two pairs of spines. Forewings 

 with 6 separate, 7, 8, 9. 10 stalked, 11 connected by a bar 

 with 8 before 10. Hindwings vdth 6 and 7 separate, 8 

 closely approximated to cell to beyond middle. Both wings 

 with hindmargins deeply and irregularlv dentate. 



Amphiclasta lygaea, n. sp. 

 (Liigaios, dark, gloomy.) 



Female. 50 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey ; the 

 latter dark-fuscous beneath. Face dark-fuscous. Palpi brown. 

 Antennae grey. Legs fuscous ; tarsi annulated with ochreous- 

 whitish. Forewings triangular, costa straight, except near 

 base and ajDex, apex acute, somewhat produced, termen 

 oblique, dentate, with more prominent teeth on veins 3 and 6 : 

 grey, towards termen brownish- tinged : cilia concolorous. 

 Hindwings with termen irregularly dentate ; with stronger 

 teeth on veins 3, 6, and 7 ; purplish -grey : a short darker sub- 

 terminal line from dorsum near tornus, edged posteriorly with 

 obscure whitish : cilia brownish. 



Type in Coll., Tinmer. 



v., Birchip, in August. I am much indebted to Mr. D. 

 Goudie for presenting me with the only example he has taken 

 of this interesting species. 



