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PYEAUSTIW^. 

 Marasmia hexagona, n. ^p. 



Male, 12 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, legs, and 

 abdomen pale brass-yellow, palpi fuscous on sides. Forewings 

 elongate, triangular, costa hardly arched, termen oblique; 

 pale brassy-yellow, with fuscous markings ; a fine slightly out- 

 wardly curved line from one-fourth costa to one-fourth inner- 

 margin ; a second from beneath costa in middle, curved outr- 

 wards at commencement and slightly sinuate beneath, ending 

 on innermargin about middle ; a third from costa a,t three- 

 fourths to innermargin at three-fourths, nearly straight, verA^ 

 slightly angulated in middle ;1 a faint fuscous subterminal shade, 

 curved outwards above middle ; a fine line along termen ; cilia 

 whitish, with a fuscous subbasal line. Hind wings with ter- 

 men rounded, faintly sinuate on posterior half; color, lines, 

 and cilia as in forewings ; subterminal shade suffused into third 

 line. 



Cooktown, Queensland ; one specimen in January. 



Tyspanodes metachrysialis, n. sp. 



Male, 24 mm. Head, palpi, antennse, thorax, legs, and ab- 

 domen pale yellow. Forewings elongate, triangular, costa 

 gently arched, termen rounded, oblique; pale ochreous, basal 

 half of wing mixed with yellowish, veins appearing to' be out- 

 lined with alternate dark fuscous and whitish line ; an o'bscure 

 fuscous dot at base ; a similar one at end of cell ; cilia fuscous 

 (imperfect). Hindwings with termen rounded; yellow; a 

 dark fuscous band along termen, very broad at apex, becoming 

 suddenly narrowed in middle and continued as a fine line to- 

 wards anal angle ; cilia yellowish. 



Cooktown, Queensland; one specimen in November. 



Nacoleia xanthoscota, n. sp. 



Female, 20 mm. Head yellowish. Palpi, legs, and abdo- 

 men yellow- whitish, anterior tibiae fuscous tinged. Thorax 

 yellow, with anterior and posterior fuscous spots, patagia spot- 

 ted with] fuscous. Forewings elongate, triangular, costa gently 

 arched, termen rounded, oblique; yellow, with fuscous mark- 

 ings ; a moderate streak along costa throughout ; four mode^ 

 rately thick waved fasciae, first from costa at one^sixth direct 

 to innermargin ; second from costa at one-third direct to inner- 

 margin ; third from costa at about two-thirds to middle of 

 wing, thence becoming fiuTate and ending on innermargin 

 about middle and anal angle respectively ; fourth fi'om threes 



