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Agar, tetrapleura, n. sp. 



Female, 48 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax black, sprinkled 

 with whitish-yellow ish dots. Abdomen black, segmental margins 

 whitish-yellowish, apex orange. Legs black, apex of joints white, 

 hairs of cox« orange. Forewings somewhat elongate-triangular, 

 hindmargin rounded, somewhat oblique ; purplish-black ; a few 

 scattered white scales towards base, forming a ring beneath costa ; 

 a rather narrow, straight, irregular-edged fascia of six partially 

 confluent whitish-yellow spots from costa beyond middle to hind- 

 margin above anal angle, but not quite reaching margins ; a short 

 line of a few white scales from costa at two-thirds : cilia purple- 

 blackish, round apex snow-white. Hindwings purple-black ; a 

 nearly straight, rather narrow, entire whitish-yellow fascia from 

 beneath costa at two-thirds to inner margin above anal angle, 

 outer edge waved, and sinuate below middle ; a small triangular 

 whitish-yellow apical spot ; cilia purple-blackish, round apex 

 whitish-yellow. 



New South Wales ; I have one fine specimen of tl.is very dis- 

 tinct species, of which I unfortunately omitted to record the 

 locality when captured, now 13 years ago; but I believe it was 

 on the hills above the Bulli Pass. 



Callipyris, n. g. 



Face rounded ; ocelli present ; tongue developed. Antenna? in 

 male filiform, rather strongly ciliated (2). Palpi moderate, por- 

 rected, second joint with appressed scales beneath, projecting 

 triangularly above towards apex, terminal joint short, obtuse. 

 Thorax and abdomen without crests. Tibia; rather densely 

 scaled, not spinose. Forewings with veins 7 and 8 out of 9, 10 

 anastomosing with 9. Hindwings with vein 5 well developed, 

 parallel to 4, 6 and 7 from a point. Probably allied to Soplda 

 and Sventia. 



Call, drosera, n. sp. 



Male and Female, 15-19 nnn. Head antenna?, thorax, and 

 abdomen deep i-eddish-ochreous, thorax and abdomen with bril- 

 liant silvery-metallic gloss. Palpi and legs orange, anterior legs 

 reddish-ochreous. Forewings rather elongate-triangular, apex 

 tolerably pointed, hindmargin forming a strong obtuse projection 

 below middle on vein 3, concave above this and slightly sinuate 

 below it ; fuscous, more or less tinged with reddish-ochreous 

 anteriorly and towards costa, irregularly strewn with brilliant 

 silvery-metallic scales; a fine whitish line at one-third, white towards 

 costa, angulated outwards above and below middle, inwards in 

 middle ; an obli({ue snow-white streak from costa beyond middle, 

 emitting an obscure whitish line to thi-ee-fourths of inner margin, 



