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Colonel C. Swlnlioe on neia 



tlie Cell; an aniouiedial, sinnon.«, trnnsverse white line; a 

 postniedial dift'iise white band, narrowino- hinduards^ and 

 througli it a black dentate line^ curved outwards below the 

 costa, its points outwards; a series of black lunules with 

 Avhite outer edges close to the margin ; cilia with some white 

 spots : hind wing ])aler, unit'orin in colour, without irrorations, 

 a white waved band across its middle IVom the middle of the 

 costa to the abdominal margin near tlie anal angle; cilia 

 white, with pale blackish spots. Underside unifornily 

 coloured like the iipperside of the hind wing ; a rather broad 

 white band across both wings, evenly outwardly curved, 

 postniedial on fore wing, medial on hind wing; the marginal 

 maiks on both Mings as on the npperside. Body and legs 

 hiack, with white hairs ; abdomen with wiiite lateral bands. 



Expanse of wings 1^ inch. 



IJab. N. Gippsland, Victoria {H. W. Davey). 



It is unnamed in the B. M. 



Sidna epipasta, nov. 



$ . Palpi ochreous brown ; liead and shoulders covered 

 with white hairs; thorax black, with ochreous-grey hairs; 

 abdomen black, with some ochreous-grey hairs on I lie tirst 

 two segments, small tufts of white haiis on the middle of the 

 last two segments and on each segment at the sides ; anal 

 tuft white : i'ore wing gre}', darkest on the middle of the 

 costa, bhicki.sh on the basal half of the hinder margin, the 

 wing covered with minute white irrorations, dense at the 

 base and on the lower half of the middle; below the cell a 

 white, sinuous, transverse, antemedial line ; a small whi'e 

 luiiular mark at the end of the cell; a postniedial band of 

 grey lunules outwardly edged with white; a subniarginal 

 row of black luimles, outwardly edged with white ; veins 

 brown, finely maiked with white: hind wing uniformly 

 grey, with a nearly straight white band from the n)iddle of 

 the costa to the abdominal margin above the anal angle ; 

 cilia of both wings grey. Underside coloured uniforndy 

 grey as on the upperside of the hind wing; a transveivse 

 medial white band on both wings, nearly straight on fore 

 wing, outwardly and evenly curved on liind wing. Body 

 concolorous with the wings ; abdomen with the lateral white 

 si)ots continued into segmental bands, its anal segment white ; 

 legs with white hairs. 



Expanse of wings 1-j^q inch. 



IJab. Yackandandali, Victoria (//. TT". Davey). 



