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series of irregular whitish lunulate spots ; hind wing with some 

 fuscous toA\ards tornus. 



Hah. ArsTRALiA {not Natal), 1 d , 1 2 , type ; Queensland, 1 J : 

 W. S. Wales, Bathurst, Mt. Kosciusko ; Victoria, Melbourne 

 {Lucas), 2 J, type consolatriv. Exp. 24 millira. Typet hemichroa 

 in Coll. Turner. 



585. Halone servilis. (Plate XXVI. fig. 11.) 



Mosoda senilis, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 731 (1886); Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 348. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey strongly mixed with fuscous ; 

 claspers yellowish white. Fore wing grey, strongly irrorated with 

 fuscous black ; the costa black towards base ; an indistinct sub- 

 basal line dentate below costa and obsolete towards inner margin ; 

 an antemedial line defined by whitish on inner side, dentate below 

 costa, then oblique and sinuous ; a white discoidal lunule ; the 

 postmedial line minutely dentate, indistinct, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, then oblique ; cilia chequered white and black. Hind 

 wing fuscous grey, pale towards base and inner margin. 



Hah. N. S. Wales, Sydney {Matlwiv), 1 $, typef S in Coll. 

 Meyrick. Exp. 2U millim. 



Sect. III. Antennse of male ciliated. 



586. Halone diffusifascia. (Plate XXVI. fig. 12.) 

 Minene diffusifascia, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii. p. 362 (1896). 



S . Crey ; palpi blackish ; tegulse, patagia, and metathorax with 

 blackish patches ; legs banded with blackish ; abdomen tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing strongly irrorated with brown ; a triangular 

 black-brown patch on costa near base ; a sinuous antemedial line 

 arising from a spot on costa ; a black point in middle of cell ; a 

 difiiised medial brown band angled outwards in cell ; two discoidal 

 points ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, excurved beyond the 

 cell, and obliquely below vein 4 ; a qnadrate black patch bejond it 

 on costa, a spot between veins 4 and 6, and a smaller spot on inner 

 margin ; a terminal series of points ; cilia marked with black at 

 apex and middle. Hind wing fuscous, the underside with discoidal 

 spot and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Assam, Khasis, 2 cS . Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus BLABIOIDES, nov. 



Type, B. sfnelleni. 



Proboscis fully developed ; piilpi porrect, not I'eacliing beyond the frons ; 

 antennif of male minutely serrate and fasciculate ; tibi;c with the spurs 

 moderate. Fore wing long and narrow; vein 2 from beyond middle of cell, 

 curved at base ; 3, 1 on a long stalk ; 5 absent ; 6 from well below upper angle ; 

 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 from beyond 9 ; 10, 11 free; male with short thick fringe of 

 hair from extremity of subcostal nervure and loose fringe of longer hair from 

 median nervure on underside. Hind wing with vein 2 from beyond middle of 



