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lated with fuscous-purple ; a very indistinct fuscous discal dot ; 
a small cuneiform spot on costa at three-fourths, from which 
proceeds a curved row of suffused indistinct dots to beyond 
middle of wing ; a suffused leaden-purplish mark on inner-margin 
before anal angle; cilia white, basal half purplish-fuscous. 
Hindwings with hindmargin rounded, dentate ; apex and middle 
dentation prominent ; a hardly perceptible waved line (dotted on 
points) from two-thirds of costa to two-thirds inner-margin ; cilia 
as forewings. Underside ochreous-pink ; markings of upperside 
more distinctly reproduced ; a small purplish blotch on middle of 
hindmargin of forewings ; a similar blotch at apex of hindwing. 
One specimen from Duaringa, Queensland; also one in Brisbane 
Museum without record. This species is allied somewhat to 
subustaria, Walk., but differs in the hindmargin, hindwings, «c. 
MONOCTENIA ORTHODESMA, %. Sp. 
Female, 54 mm. Head, antennee, palpi, thorax, and abdomen 
pale-biscuit color; palpi beneath white. Legs pale-pinkish-white. 
Forewings elongate ; costa almost straight, slightly curved at 
apex; apex acute, hindmargin sinuate beneath apex, thence 
bowed, oblique; pale-biscuit colour; an almost straight dark- 
reddish line from costa just before apex to inner-margin at about 
two-thirds, edged anteriorly throughout with a pale-yellow line ; 
cilia dark-reddish. Hindwings with hindmargin almost straight ; 
cilia, colour, and markings as in forewings; costa broadly snow- 
white, becoming suffused with pale carmine pink at and around 
apex. 
One specimen, Brisbane, in October. Chaste and elegant ; 
not to be confused with any other described species. The 
hindwings beneath have a large purplish patch placed as in 
vinaria, to which it is allied. 
MONOCTENIA CYCNOPTERA, 7. Sp. 
Male, 40 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale-greyish, some- 
what tinged with slate colour; legs grey ; antenne ochreous, 
pectinations four; palpi greyish-ochreous. Forewings triangular ; 
costa straight, apex acute, hindmargin sinuate beneath apex, 
thence strongly bowed, oblique; pale slaty-grey, minutely and 
imperceptibly dusted with blackish ; a ferruginous spot on inner- 
margin at about two-thirds, from which proceeds a faint paie- 
yellowish streak towards apex; cilia pale-ferruginous. Hind- 
wings with hindmargin rounded, somewhat prominent at apex ; 
snow-white, without markings ; cilia white. Forewings beneath 
with a large blotch of claret colour just below middle of hind- 
margin. 
