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forewings ; first line just traceable and containing in its centre 

 a roundish ring of blackish scales. 



Cooktown, Queensland ; one specimen in December. 



Metachrostis sciaptera, n. sp. 



Male, 22 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and abdomen 

 fuscous, abdomen darker, anal tuft greyish-ochreous. Legs dark 

 fuscous, more or less ringed with whitish-ochreous. Forewings 

 elongate, triangular, costa slightly arched, term en obliqiie, faintly 

 waved ; light fuscons, median two-thirds of wing dark fuscous, 

 limited anteriorly by first line, posteriorly by second line; 

 first line waved, becoming dark fuscous below middle ; median 

 gently curved throughout, fine, waved ; second from costa just 

 above reniform to just beyond two- thirds of innemiargin, with 

 a strong angulation beneath costa, thence oblique to termina- 

 tion ; orbicular indistinct ; reniform large, placed somewhat" 

 obliquely, whitish, edged on either side with a short patch of 

 dark fuscous ; subterminal absent ; area of wing beyond lighter 

 than rest; a row of small black marks along termen ; cilia 

 light fuscous. Hindwings light fuscous ; base slightly clothed 

 with greyish-ochreous hairs ; cilia fuscous-whitish. 



Mackay, Queensland; one specimen in October. 



Bleptina odontias, n. sp. 



Male, 30 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, antennae, and abdo- 

 men light ochreous-fuscous. Legs ochreous, tibiae and tarsi 

 dark fusco-us. Forewings elongate, triangular ; costa gently 

 arched, termen not waved, obliquely rounded ; light ochreous, 

 faintly tinged with fuscous ; lines fuscous, very fine, obscure ; 

 first wa.ved, indented below costa and slightly angulated out- 

 wards above innermargin ; median not traceable ; second 

 nearly straight, strongly dentate throughout, slightly curved 

 beneath costa ; subterminal grey-whitish, waved ; angulated 

 outwards above and below middle, and edged anteriorly by a 

 narrow fuscons shade, and posteriorly by a similar shade, ex- 

 cepting in middle ; 'a row of small black marks along tennen ; 

 cilia ochreous. Hindwings with termen rounded; a fuscous 

 discal spot ; second, subterminal line and shades and dots as in 

 forewings, but dots more elongate ; cilia ochreous. 



Mackay, Queensland ; one specimen in October. 



PLUSIAiD^. 



Proconis eulopha, n. sp. 

 Male, 28 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax cinereous-fuscous, 

 antennae fuscous, pectinations 6, ochreous. Legs and abdomen 



