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Hiud wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale tinged with brown or 

 rufous ; the underside white, slightly tinged with purplish red and 

 irrorated with fuscous ; a black discoidal spot and curved post- 

 medial line, the area beyond it suffused with fuscous. 



Ab. 1. leucanioides. Fore wing with the markings less distinct, 

 the reniform without the white streak below it and with a fuscous 

 patch beyond it. 



Ab. 2. facilis. Much more grey-brown and with hardly any 

 rufous tinge. 



Ab. 3. Suffused with deep fuscous. 



Hah. 'S. S. Wales, Moreton Bay (Digr/les), 1 $ ; Vtctoria, 

 Gisborne {Lyell), 1 c? ; S. Australia, Parkside (Z^otwer), 1 r? , 1 9 ; 

 Tasmania, Hobart (AUj^ort, Lyell), 7 d" , 1 $ , type facilis. E.vp. 

 38-40 millitn. 



1826. Dasygaster epundoides. (Plate XCI. fig. 15.) 



Basygasier epundoides, Gnen. Noct. i. p. 202 (1852). 

 Dasygaster ■punctivena, Wlk. ix. 242 (1856). 



2 . Head and thorax black slightly mixed with grey ; antennge 

 at base and tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous irrorated 

 with grey. Foi'e wing fuscous black, with some whitish irroration, 

 especially on basal, costal, and inner areas ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by a black striga from costa ; anteraedial line indistinct, 

 oblique, waved, defined by greyish on inner side ; claviform a small 

 black mark ; orbicular a black point; reniform very ill-defined and 

 small, formed of black and white scales ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 bent outwards and defined by white on outer side below costa, then 

 oblique, dentate, a series of white points on costa bej'ond it ; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of white points on short black 

 streaks, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, 

 greyish towards base and costa, the cilia whitish at tips ; the under- 

 side white irrorated with black ; a black discoidal lunule, the 

 terminal area black. 



Hah. Tasmania, 1 $ ty]}Q 'punctivena. Exp. 40 millim. 



Sect. III. Antennae of male witli cilia and bristles; claspers very elongate ; 

 hind wing witn the termen strongly excised from apex to vein 4. 



]827. Dasygaster reversa. 



Aletia reversa, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 6, pi. 144. f. 5 (1884) ; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 278. 



Head and thorax pale ochreous mixed with fuscous ; tegulae with 

 fuscous lines at middle and near tips ; patagia with some black 

 scales on upper edge ; tarsi with pale rings. Fore wing pale 

 ochreous, tinged with purplish red and irrorated with fuscous ; 



