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terminal portions of disc more or less suffused with grey; sparsely 

 scattered dark-fuscous scales tending to form minute transverse 

 striguhv, most numerous on costa ; lines ferrugineous-fuscous ; 

 antemedian line from costa at one-fourth, very obliquely out- 

 wards, acutely angled in mid-disc to end in dorsum at two-fifths ; 

 postmedian line from costa beyond middle, strongly outwardly 

 curved and slightly waved, then sigmoid to dorsum at three- 

 fourths ; a subterminal series of minute black dots not reaching 

 tornus ; cilia whitish, with a ferrugineous central line and dark- 

 fuscous dots opposite veins. Hindwings with termen, forming 

 two acute projections on veins 4 and 1; colour and irroration as 

 forewings ; antemedian line fine, transverse, with a slight median 

 angle ; postmedian line evenly curved, slightly waved in middle, 

 followed by a whitish line ; a spot of tine blackish irroration near 

 mid-termen ; a fine whitish terminal line, preceded b}'- a greyish 

 line, and this again by three fine black dots between projections ; 

 cilia ferrugineous-fuscous, apices whitish, towards tornus whitish, 

 with a median ferruginous line. Under surface white, with 

 dark-fuscous strigulse ; costal and terminal areas of forewings 

 suflfused with grey. 



Type in coll. Turner. 



Queensland, Brisbane, in May ; two specimens, received from 

 Mr. R. Illidge, 



Epiplema inclarata. 



Erosia inclarata, Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat., XXXV., p. 1,646, 

 Thursday Island, in March. 



North Queensland, Townsville, in May : received from Mr. F. 

 P. Dodd. 



Epiplema xylinopis, n. sp. 



{Xulinopis, looking like wood.) 



Female, 22 mm. Head whitish-grey ; face and palpi dark- 

 brown. Antennte ochreous-whitish. Thorax and abdomen pale- 

 brownish, tinged with purplish-grey. Legs ochreous-whitish^ 

 anterior pair grey. Forewings triangular, costa gently arched, 

 strongly arched just before apex, apex tolerably acute, termen 

 sinuate beneath apex, bowed on vein 3 ; pale- brownish, suffused^ 

 except in mid-disc, with purple-grey ; with numerous obscure 

 darker transverse strigulae; lines obscure, ochreous ; antemedian 

 at one -third, obsolete towards margins ; postmedian from beneath 

 two-thirds costa to three-fourths dorsum, dentate, not outw^ardly 

 bowed ; a narrow terminal dark-fuscous sufifusion from apex ta 

 mid-termen ; cilia bases pale-brownish, apices dark-fuscous. 

 Hindwings with termen straight to between veins 1 and 2, where 

 it forms an acute angle and is notched between this and tornus ; 



