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wings greyish-ochreous ; cilia greyish -ochreous, with a fuscous 

 sub-basal line. 



North Queensland. Two specimens; in October. 



Nephogenes amphisema, n. sp. 



Male, 18 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax ashy- 

 grey-fuscous. Abdomen and legs greyish. Forewings elon- 

 gate, moderate. Costa gently arched, termen rounded, oblique; 

 ashy-grey-whitish; a small elongate black spot on fold in 

 middle; a similar one above and beyond, and a third in middle 

 of wing at |, each dot surrounded by an irregular ring of dull 

 whitish in the first two, more or less confluent; in the third, 

 becoming somewhat fascia-like ; cilia dull fuscous. Hindwings 

 and cilia fuscous. 



North Queensland. Several specimens; in December; 

 frequenting grass. 



Philobota dasycopa, n. sp. 



Female, 15 mm. Head and palpi white. Thorax fus- 

 cous, patagia. Antennae fuscous. Abdomen ochreous. Legs 

 ochreous, anterior pair fuscous. Forewings elongate, moderate, 

 costa gently arched, termen rounded, oblique; white, with 

 fuscous markings ; an S-shaped mark, commencing from dor- 

 sum near base, thence curved up towards costa and around to 

 fold at J, and continued along it for a short distance, and 

 curved up at extremity, whence it meets a broad, irregular- 

 edged lighter fuscous transverse fascia, whitish-edged, from 

 costa at g to dorsum at anal angle ; a short, inwardly oblique, 

 transverse fascia from costa at ^ to termen at anal angle, with 

 a darker fuscous spot on its anterior edge above middle; cilia 

 white, with a broad fuscous tooth below middle. Hindwings 

 greyish-fuscous; cilia greyish-ochreous, fuscous tinged at base. 



MacDonnell Bay, South Australia. One specimen : in De- 

 cember. ^ 



Philobota sphenoleuca, n. sp. 



Male, 20 mm. Head snow-white. Palpi fuscous, termi- 

 nation of second joint white. Antennae fuscous, faintly irro- 

 rated with white. Thorax whitish, patagia brownish. Legs 

 fuscous, sprinkled with whitish; posterior tibiae ochreous. Ab- 

 domen dull whitish. Forewings elongate, moderate, costa 

 gently arched, termen oblique; white, becoming broadly fus- 

 cous along dorsum; markings fuscous; a well-marked streak 

 from costa at base, continued along fold to near middle, with 

 a sharp projection near costa; a lunate mark at jDosterior ex- 

 tremity of streak, almost confluent with it; a thick suffused 

 streak along costa from -J to |, both extremities pointed; a 

 strong, inwardly oblique streak from | costa to beyond middle 

 of wing, preceded above middle by a minute black dot : wing 

 beyond this irrorated with fuscous; a suffused row of dots 



