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DEEPANULID^. 

 OrETA MILTODES, H. sp. 



Female, 34 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, antennae, legb, and 

 abdomen pale flesliy-oclireous, head more carmine tinged. 

 Fore wings elongate, triangular, costa strongly arched, term en 

 strongly bowed, excised beneath apex, apex produced ; pale 

 ochreous-fuscous, strongly suffused with carmine-pinS, espe- 

 cially on terminal area, where it becomes wholly carmine-pink ; 

 a fuscous ante-median shade, moderately broad ; folfowed by 

 a similar shade in middle; a nearly straight rather narrower 

 shade from costa/ at three-fourths to innermargin at about three- 

 fourths ; cilia carmine-pink. Hindwings with termen rounded ; 

 color and cilia as in forewings ; subterminal streak as in fore- 

 wings; costa broadly grey-whitish. 



Mackay, Queensland ; one specimen in January. 



GEOMETRINA. 



BOARMIAD^. 



BOARMIA XYLOTEEMA, 11. Sp. 



Female, 38 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, legs, and 

 abdomen light mahogany-red. Forewings elongate triangular,, 

 costa slightly arched, termen rounded, oblique ; mahogany- 

 red ; a black discal spot ; a fine white line, nearly straight, 

 from costa at three-fourths to innermargin just beyond middle, 

 edged throughout by a broad shade of darker ground color ; a 

 waved white subterminal line! considerably beyond, edged ant^e- 

 riorly by its own width of deeper ground color; cilia maho- 

 gany-red. Hindwings with termen waved, rounded ; color^ 

 discal, lines, and cilia as in forewings. 



Cooktown, Queensland ; one specimen in November. 



NOCTTJINA. 



AGAEISTIDiE. 

 Argyrolepidia unimacula, n. sp. 

 Female, 40 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen Hght 

 fuscous, palpi beneath greyish. Legs fuscous, banded with 

 white. Forewings elongate, triangular, costa gently arched, 

 termen obliquely rounded; dark brownish, with some scat- 

 tered bluish- white scales in disc; a moderately broad white 

 oblique transverse fascia, from costa at two-thirds to anal 

 angle, somewhat interrupted at anal angle, broadest on upper 

 half ; some faint bluish-white scales along termen, cilia 

 fuscous. Hindwings with termen waved, rounded; 



