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white ; a aubbasal black point on costa ; antemedial lino oblique. 

 fulvous with black spot at costa ; a black point at npper angle of 

 cell with blackish patch above it on costa with fulvous streak below 

 it, some black-brown just beyond the cell and an oblique wav< d 

 fulvous line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line black-brown, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then benl 

 outwards to tornus ; postmedial part of costa with white points with 

 black-brown streaks between them ; subterminal line only defined 

 by a slight black-brown mark before it below costa and black -brown 

 patches beyond it at discal and submedian folds, minutely dentate, 

 angled outwards at vein 4, then incurved and bent outwards to 

 tornua ; a terminal series of small black spots with 1'uItous between 

 them ; cilia chequered blackish and white. Hind wing grey-white 

 slightly irrorated with rufous and dark brown scales ; a black point 

 at upper angle of cell with faint waved line from it to inner margin ; 

 a dark sinuous postmedial line ; a black-brown band across apical 

 area and a diffused sinuous rufous and dark brown subterminal 

 line ; a terminal series of black points with rufous between them; 

 the underside grey suffused with fuscous brown, a dark discoidal 

 bar. 



Ilab. Qeeenslaxd, Brisbane {Tamer), 1 <5 . Exp. 14 millim. 



5013. Araeoptera rufescens, n. sp. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 17.) 



J. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with dark brown. 

 Fore wing grey-white with a purplish tinge, the medial area 

 yellowish tinged with rufous from cell to inner margin ; a aubbasal 

 black and rufous point on costa and small fuscous spots on median 

 nervure and vein J ; an antemedial black and rufous point on tost a 

 and traces of a rufous line, slightly angled outwards on median 

 nervure, then oblique ; a blackish spot at upper angle of cell with 

 oblique shade from it to inner margin near tornus, some black and 

 rufous above it on costa ; postmedial line blackish and obliquely 

 bent outwards from costa to vein 4, then indistinct, rufous and 

 strongly bent inwards, the costa beyond it with black and white 

 points; an indistinct dark subterminal line, ending at tornus: tin- 

 apical area with some dark Buffusion ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing yellow suffused with rufous, the apical area 

 suffused with black ; a black discoidal point, slighl sinuous post- 

 medial line, and traces of diffused subterminal line ; a terminal Bern - 

 of black points ; cilia grey mixed with brown; the underside 

 yellowish suffused with brown. 



Bab. Ceyiox, Kegalle (Alston), 1 o type. Exp. Id millim. 



501 4. Araeoptera pictalis. 

 Araopteron piciale, Hmpsn. 111. Hct. B.M. ix. p. 137, pi. I6a ' 19 1893 , 



T . Head and thorax grev-white slightly mixed with red-brown ; 

 palpi and frons blackish brown: antenna brown except at base; 



