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Descriptions of New Australian Lepidoptera 
WITH Synonymic Notes.- No. XXlll. 
By Oswald B. Lower, F.E.S. (Lond.), etc. 
[Read August 1, 1905.] 
SYNEMONID.^. 
Synemon monodesma, n. sp. 
Male, 38 mm. Head, antennae, and legs dark fuscous; 
face and palpi white. Thorax and abdomen whitish 
beneath. Legs white, mixed with fuscous. Forewings 
elongate - triangular, costa gently arched, termen 
obliquely rounded ; deep fuscous - ochreous, faintly 
iridescent ; a moderate, very oblique white fascia from below 
costa in middle, extending towards anal angle, but only 
reaching two-thirds across wing, almost sejDarated by ground 
colour in middle ; a suffused, whitish, short, oblique fascia 
below costa at about four-fifths, about half the length of 
previous fascia ; some whitish scales on upper half of termen ; 
cilia fuscous-whitish. tlindMdngs with termen rounded ; 
blackish-fuscous, with bright orange markings ; a broad cres- 
centic fascia at end of cell ; a similar fascia, from below costa 
at three-fourths, running towards anal angle, but not reach- 
ing it, deeply excised on upper edge above middle ; an irregu- 
lar row of more or less obscure orange spots along termen ; 
cilia whitish. 
Differs from the other described species by the single 
fascia of forewings. 
Mount Darling Range, Wester" Australia. In Xovem- 
ber ; two specimens. 
CARADRINIXA. 
CARADRIXID.E. 
Ectopatria virginea, n. sp. 
Male, 36 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen snow- 
white, legs snow-white. Antennae ochreous. Forewings 
elongate, moderate, costa nearly straight, termen oblique, 
hardly rounded : snow-white, without markings : cilia snow- 
white. Hindwings snow-white, slightly iridescent : cilia 
snow-white. A distinct species, well characterised by the 
wholly white colour ; at first sight it is not unlike Caradrina 
gypsinu, Low., but is without markings of any kind. 
Adelaide, South Australia. One specimen : in October. 
Euplexia signata, n. s;p. 
Male, 48 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous, 
thorax with ochreous fuscous posterior crest, palpi ochreous. 
