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LETHOCEPHALA (?) CALLIDESMA, N. Sp. 
Male, 32 mm. Head, abdomen, and legs reddish fuscous, tinged 
with darker fuscous ; abdomen tinged with dark purplish-reddish 
on posterior half. Thorax deep purplish-fuscous, tinged with 
scarlet posteriorly ; collar scarlet. Antenne reddish, pectinations 
at greatest length four, gradually attenuated to apex, but not 
ending in a bristle. Forewings moderate, somewhat dilated pos- 
teriorly, costa almost straight, apex rounded, hindmargin obliquely 
bowed ; deep reddish-fuscous, anterior half deep purplish-fuscous, 
separation well defined by an ochreous-white oblique, hardly 
sinuate line, from inner-margin at one-third to more than half 
across wing, then obscurely continued to just beneath costa at 
five-sixths ; a dark fuscous, somewhat undulated line from apex 
of this streak to below middle of hindmargin ; cilia reddish- 
fuscous. Hindwings with hindmargin rounded ; reddish-fuscous, 
purplish tinged, becoming lighter towards costa ; cilia as in fore- 
wings. 
One specimen, Mackay, Queensland, in December. Not unlike 
Lethocephala bombycoides, Feld., but is shorter winged. 
DoRATIPHORA EUMELA, N. sp. 
Female, 28 mm. Head, palpi, legs, antenne, and abdomen fleshy 
white ; legs ninutely irrorated with black. Thorax pale reddish- 
fuscous, with a short black longitudinal streak behind collar. 
Forewings moderately dilated, costa hardly arched, apex rounded, 
hindmargin bowed, oblique; pale fleshy-brown, more or less 
suffused with whitish, with scattered minute blackish scales ; a 
somewhat quadrate shining-fuscous patch extending from base to 
near middle, reaching more than half across wing, edged poster- 
iorly with a line of white, and containing a round sharply-defined 
black spot near base; a large whitish ill-defined somewhat sutfused 
round patch near apex, partly edged anteriorly by a fine fuscous 
line, and containing near its posterior edge a suffused fuscous 
mark, on which are placed three dark fuscous-cuneiform spots on 
veins, the apices directed inwards. The mark is edged posteriorly 
by a line of whitish, indicating extreme edge of round spot ; cilia 
tleshy-white, with a whitish basal line. Hindwings with hind- 
margin rounded ; dull fuscous, tinged with reddish ; cilia as in 
forewings. 
One specimen from Mackay, Queensland ; sent by Mr. Rowland 
Turner. 
ARCTIADE. 
SORCOSTIA NIPHOSTENA, N. Sp. 
Female, 20 mm. MHead and thorax white. Legs fuscous 
whitish; palpi three, fuscous, internally white. Antenne and abdo- 
