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DiRADES LEUCOCEPHALA. 



Erosia lencocephala, Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat., XXVI., p. 1,758. 

 Bpiplema luaens, Warr., Nov. Zool., 1897, p. 202. 

 North Queensland, Geraldton, Townsville, in March. Queens- 

 land, Rockharapton, Brisbane, in August. 



DiRADES DECORATA. 



Dirades decorata, Warr., Nov. Zool., 1898, p. 228. 



North Queensland, Townsville, in February and April Queens- 

 land, Duarinoa, Brisbane, and Mount Tambourine, in November, 

 December, March, and April. 



DiRADES STEREOGRAMMA, H. Sp. 



(Stereogrammos, stiffly marked — in allusion to postmedian line 

 of fore wing.) 



Female, 16 mm. Head white; face and palpi fuscous. 

 Antenna whitish. Thorax and abdomen white, irrorated with 

 brownish, Legs whitish, irrorated with fuscous ; anterior pair 

 mostly fuscous. Forewings triangular, costa nearly straight, 

 slightly arched towards apex, termen straight above, slightly 

 rounded tow^ards tornus, dorsum somewhat incurved ; grey- 

 whitish, irrorated with brownish ; a few dark-fuscous scales on 

 costa, and near base beneath costa ; a brownish median band, 

 anterior margin from one-third costa to two-fifths dorsum, 

 strongly angulated outwards ; posterior edge from beyond mid- 

 costa to three fourths dorsum, nearly straight, slightly inwardly 

 curved in mid-disc, edged posteriorly with whitish ; three or four 

 subterminal dark-fuscous spots above mid-termen ; cilia whitish, 

 mixed with brownish and dark -fuscous. Hindwings with termen 

 rounded, with short acute projections on veins 4 and 7; grey- 

 whitish, with sparse brownish and dark-fuscous irroration ; 

 posterior line whitish, partly edged anteriorly with brownish, 

 rather strongly outwardly bowed ; a dark subterminal line, 

 preceded by a whitish line, and interrupted by two white streaks 

 on either side of inner projection : cilia as fore wings. 



Type in coll. Turner. 



North Queensland, Townsville, in March ; one specimen, 

 received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Paradirades assimilis. 



Paradirades assimilis, Warr., Nov. Zool., 1896, p. 353. 



My example has a broad obscurely darker band across middle 

 of both wings. 



North Queensland, Cooktown, Townsville, in May ; one speci- 

 men, received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



