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colour, strigulation, and ciiia as fore wings. Under surface grey 

 with sparsely scattered dark -fuscous strigulse. 



Peculiar in the shape of the hindwings, and referred to this 

 genus only provisionally. 



Type in coll. Turner. 



North Queensland, Townsville, in April ; one specimen, 

 received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



MONOBOLODES SUBFALCATA. 



Monoholodes suhfalcata, Warr., Nov. Zool, 1898, p. 230. 



North Queensland, Townsville, in March and April ; six 

 specimens, received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. Queensland, 

 Duaringa. 



DiRADES PLATYPHYLLA, n. Sp 



{PlatitphuUos, with broad wings.) 



Male and female, 25-26 mm. Head white ; face and palpi 

 dark-fuscous. Antennae white. Thorax and abdomen whitish or 

 pale-grey. Legs whitish, anterior pair fuscous. Forewings 

 triangular, costa slightly arched, apex rounded, termen obliquely 

 rounded; whitish or pale-grey ; a darker suffused line along basal 

 half of costa ; a few scattered black scales ; antemedian line 

 obsolete ; a small or minute blackish discal dot ; postmedian line 

 slender, faintly marked, ferrugineous, externally margined with 

 whitish, in female fuscous, from three-fourths costa first strongly 

 outwardly, and then strongly inwardly curved to three-fourths 

 dorsum, dorsal end blackish in male, in female preceded on dorsum 

 by a broad fuscous suffusion; a subterminal row of black dots 

 from apex to mid-termen ; cilia grey. Hindwings with termen 

 in male angled and slightly projecting on vein 7, thence nearly 

 straight fco vein 4, inner portion of wing folded over and con- 

 taining a glandular thickening; termen in female with small 

 acute projections on veins 4 and 7; colour irroration and cilia as 

 forewings ; postmedian line in male very slender, evenly rounded, 

 crenulate ; in female rather strongly bowed and angled between 

 veins 3 and 4, and better marked; a dark -fuscous discal streak 

 precedes it in female ; in male three black subterminal dots. 



Type in coll. Turner. 



North Queensland, Thursday Island. Queensland, Brisbane, 

 in February and March ; seven specimens, 



DiRADES MUTANS, 



Erosia mutans, Butl., Ann. Mag. N.H , 1887, p. 434. 



Dirades leucocera, Hmps., TIL Het., YIIL, p. 102, PL 150, 

 f. 13; Moths Ind.. III., p. 133. 



North Queensland, Thursday Island, Townsville, in March ; 

 four specimens, received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



