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fourth of costa to one-fourth inner-margin, edged internally by 

 a fine line of black ; posterior margin of band edged by a 

 similar, internally black-edged fascia from beyond three-fourths 

 of costa to just before anal angle, with sharp projection out- 

 wards beneath costa, and another less pointed in middle, the 

 fascia edged throughout externally by a line of ochreous- 

 brown ; subterminal slenderly white, indented beneath costa ; 

 a black hindmarginal line cut by veins into spots ; cilia 

 fuscous, somewhat chequered with blackish towards base. 

 Hindwings with hindmargin hardly waved, fuscous, lighter 

 towards base ; several darker fuscous, somewhat indistinct 

 waved transverse lines ; three below middle more pronounced ; 

 cilia greyish. Markings of hindwings reproduced more clearly 

 beneath. One specimen ; Semaphore, S. Australia, in December. 



SELIDOOSEMID.E. 



Paralcea maritima, n. sp. 



Male, 33 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark ashy-grey 

 fuscous. Thorax with a large, dense, bifid, posterior crest. Palpi 

 long. Antennae ochreous-fuscous ; pectinations three to apex. 

 Abdomen grey. Legs fuscous ; posterior pair whitish. Fore- 

 wings elongate-triangular ; costa strongly arched at base, thence 

 nearly straight ; hindmargin hardly oblique, somewhat crenulate, 

 slightly angulated in middle, ashy-grey-whitish, densely and 

 finely transversely strigulated throughout with darker ; a thin, 

 obscure, cuneiform mark of pale whitish-fuscous from costa at 

 about two-thirds, reaching half across wing ; a fine, blackish, 

 interrupted hindmarginal line ; cilia ashy grey-whitish. Hind- 

 wings white, with slight projections on veins four and seven, 

 waved on upper half, lower half nearly straight, three and four 

 from a point, grey-whitish ; a more or less suffused-fuscous hind- 

 marginal band, becoming obsolete towards anal angle ; hind- 

 marginal line as in forewings ; cilia white. Underside of 

 hindwings silvery-white, with a large, black, apical spot. One 

 specimen at Exeter, S. Australia, in June (at light). In Mr. 

 Meyrick's generic description the apex of the antenna? is said to 

 be simple ; in the present species the ciliations reach the apex, 

 although extremely short at that point. 



NOCTUINA. 



ISOCTUID.E. 



Agrotis callimera, n. sp. 



Male and female, 38-40 mm. Head and face pale-ochreous. 

 Palpi ochreous ; second joint thickly infuscated on sides 



