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margin obliquely rounded ; fuscous, mixed with whitish and dark 

 fuscous hairscales ; costal edge in male dark fuscous ; two strong 

 dark fuscous lines, first from quarter of costa to two-fifths of 

 inner margin, rather irregularly sinuate, second from before two- 

 thirds of costa to beyond middle of inner margin, with a slight 

 angular dentation outwards above middle, and somewhat bent 

 inw^w^ards below middle ; a small transverse-oval fuscous-whitish 

 discal spot before middle, circled with blackish ; an indistinct 

 irregular subterminal series of darker spots : cilia whitish, barred 

 with dark fuscous. Hindwings dull whitish ; cilia whitish, 

 barred with dark fuscous. 



Mount Lofty, South Australia ; a pair received from Mr. E. 

 Guest, who has taken others. 



LIPARIDID.^. 



Darala, Walk. 



Dar. xaxtiiarcha, n. sp, 



Male, 63 mm. Head fuscous. Antennae blackish, stalk 

 sprinkled with pale yellowish. Thorax blackish, somewhat 

 mixed with whitish and ferruginous hairs. Abdomen ferrugin- 

 ous-red, anal-tuft yellow-whitish. Legs blackish, sprinkled with 

 pale yellowish, hairs of femora partly ferruginous-red. Forewings 

 triangular, hindmargin rounded, somewhat oblique ; dark fuscous, 

 densely strewn with white hairs, and a few bright ferruginous 

 scales ; three waved blackish-fuscous lines, first from one-fourth 

 of costa to one-third of inner margin, sharply angulated above 

 middle, second and third close together beyond middle, slightly 

 curved inwards ; a small, round, w^hite black-circled discal spot 

 above middle, immediately preceding second line ; a moderate 

 hindmarginal band nearly witliout white irroration, its anterior 

 edge straight, dentate. Hindwings pale whitish-yellow, deeper 

 towards base, with some orange hairs in submedian fold ; a faint 

 grey straight median line ; a broad dark-grey hindmarginal band, 

 irrorated with whitish-yellowish, anterior edge faint and preceded 

 by a series of faint grey spots, and including a faint pale dentate 

 subterminal line. Undersurface of all wings whitish, Avith a 

 black discal dot and median line ; disc of forewings orange, with 

 white black-circled spot as above. 



Koolunga, South Australia ; one specimen in the collection of 

 Mr. E. Guest. It is a handsome and extremely distinct species. 



Dar. protocentra, n. sp. 



Male, 48 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, abdomen, and legs dull 

 brown-reddish. Antenna? whitish, pectinations reddish-fuscous 

 (10). Forewings triangular, hindmargin rounded, little oblique ; 



