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rounded, oblique; dull whitish, irrorated with light fuscous, 

 somewhat more pronounced in cell and on costa ; an outwards- 

 curved, fuscous line from costa at two-thirds to dorsum at two- 

 thirds ; a row of fuscous dots along termen ; cilia grey-whitish, 

 with a fuscous median line. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Townsville (l)odd) and Cooktown. Four specimens; in 

 September and August. 



MUCIALLA LEUCOSPILA, n. sp. 



Male, 15 mm. Plead and thorax ashy-grey-whitish, 

 mixed with some ferruginous ochreous-scales. Antennae fus- 

 cous. Legs and abdomen grey-whitish. Forewings elongate, 

 moderate, costa gently arched, termen obliquely rounded ; 

 ashy-grey-whitish, more or less irrorated with fine blackish 

 scales and scattered ferruginous scales ; an obscure ferruginous 

 patch, at patch followed by a whitish spot on costa at one- 

 fifth ; a fine, irregular, fuscous line from costa beyond white 

 spot to dorsum at one-third, indented above dorsum, a simi- 

 lar but very suffused line from costa at five-sixths to dorsum 

 at anal angle ; one or two fine black marks at end of cell ; 

 three blackish spots on costa near apex ; a row of suffused 

 fuscous spots along termen ; cilia grey, becoming fuscous on 

 terminal half. Hindwings light fuscous ; cilia greyish, becom- 

 ing fuscous on terminal half. 



North Queensland. One specimen. 



MUCIALLA MACROMORPHA, n. Sp. 



Male, 20 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dull-reddish- 

 fuscous, thickly sprinkled with dull white. Abdomen grey. 

 Antennse grey. Legs and abdomen grey-whitish. Forewings 

 elongate, moderate, costa hardly arched, termen rounded, 

 oblique ; dull reddish-fuscous, thickly irrorated with very 

 minute whitish and black scales ; veins very obscurely outlined 

 with darker towards termen ; cilia dull reddish-fuscous, with 

 a fuscous sub-basal line. 



North Queensland. One specimen. 



MUCIALLA CRYPSIMERA, U. Sp. 



Male, 16-18. Head, palpi, thorax, and antennae ashy- 

 grey-fuscous. Legs grey, abdomen silvery-grey. Forewings 

 elongate, moderate, costa gently arched, termen rounded, 

 oblique ; ashy-grey-fuscous, sometimes thickly mixed with 

 whitish, all veins more or less outlined in black, sometimes 

 obscure ; indications of two fuscous fasciae somewhat oblique, 

 both reaching from costa to fold at middle and two-thirds : a 

 row of more or less confluent fuscous spots alonef termen : cilia 

 ashy-grey, with fuscous submedian and subterminal lines. 

 Hindwings grey, tinged with fuscous : cilia grey, with a 

 fuscous sub-basal line. 



North Queensland. Two specimens ; in March. 



