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Churia thermodes, n. sp. 



Male and female, 28-30 mm. Head, antemice, and thorax 

 light reddish-ochreous, palpi whitish-ochreous. Abdomen 

 light ochreous. Legs reddish-ochreous, dusted with whitish. 

 Forewings elongate, triangular, costa hardly arched, termen 

 obliquely rounded, very faintly sinuate beneath apex; light 

 reddish-ochreous, costa lighter ochreous, shortly strigulated 

 with reddish, more perceptible in female ; orbicular and reni- 

 form dot like, white, hardly traceable in male; cilia reddish- 

 ochreous. Hindwings with termen unevenly waved ; light 

 ochreous, becoming finely irrorated with reddish on posterior 

 half; cilia wliitish, with a fuscous subbasal line on upper half 

 of termen. 



The coloring of the sexes is somewhat different, the male 

 being much more ochreous than the female, which is strongly 

 suffused with reddish, but intermediate forms occur. 



Tennant's Creek, Central South Australia ; two specimens 

 in November. I have seen others from the same locality. 



. Zagira xylonota, n. sp. 



Male, 20 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax reddish, 

 mixed with white. Abdomen greyish, crests reddish. Legs 

 wliitish. Forewings elongate, triangular, costa hardly 

 .arched, termen somewhat bowed, especially in middle; dull 

 whitish, suffusedly irrorated with light reddish, so as to appear 

 pale reddish throughout; costal edge reddish; all markings 

 obsolete ; posterior sixth of wing darker reddish, especially 

 along termen ; cilia reddish-ferruginous. Hindwings with ter- 

 men irregularly a.nd ifaintly waved ; pale whitish-ochreous, 

 faintly reddish tinged along termen ; cilia ochreous, tinged 

 with reddish. 



Mackay, Queensland ; one specimen in November. 



Amyna spilonota, n. s,p. 



Female, 25 mm. Head, palpi, antenuce, and thorax dull 

 greyish. Abdomen greyish- white. Legs greyish. Forewings 

 elongate, triangular, costa slightly arched, termen hardly 

 rounded, oblique ; pale greyish-fuscous, markings obscure ; first 

 line fuscous, waved, hardly perceptible ; median appearing as 

 a short oblique fuscous shade, just reaching anterior edge of 

 reniform spot ; second line fuscous from costa just above reni- 

 fomi, thence curved outwards, strongly waved, and terminat- 

 ing on innermargin at two-thirds ; costa between line and apex 

 with five or six ochreous-white spots, separated by fuscous 



