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costa to tornus, dilated posteriorly in middle and on coata,- 

 enclosing a dark fuscous transverse mark in disc; a whitish- 

 ochreous streak along upper two-thirds of termen; cilia dark 

 fuscous, beneath tornus yellow. Hind wings bright orange ; 

 apical one-fifth dark fuscous ; a narrow dorsal patch mixed with 

 dark fuscous ; cilia dark fuscous. 



Yale Paddock, South Australia, in March (E. Guest); one 

 specimen. 



Allied to K. helias, from which it differs, besides distinctlongh 

 of color, by the shorter palpi and much longer antennal cilia- 

 tion&. 



PHILOBOTA, Mer. 



Philobota argykaspis^ Low. 

 iCmsyra argyraspis, Low., Trans. Roy. Soc, S. Astr., 1897, 

 54.) 



Male and female, 14-15 mm. Head orange. Palpi orange, 

 irrorated with dark fuscous. Antennae fuscous. Thorax 

 orange-tawny, patagia pale ochreous posteriorly. Abdomen 

 light yellowish. Legs white, banded beneath with dark fus- 

 cous, hairs of posterior tibiae whitish-yellowish. Forewings^ 

 elongate, moderate, costa moderately arched, apex round- 

 pointed, termen hardly rounded, oblique ; tawny-orange ; 

 markings shining snow-white, more or less edged with dark 

 fuscous suffusion ; a costal streak from near base to near apex, 

 extremities attenuated ; a slender subdorsal streak throughout, 

 continued along termen to apex ; a median longitudinal series 

 of three rather large spots, first elongate, second oval, third 

 sublriangular ; beneath second a small additional spot; cilia 

 fuscous-whitish, basal half orange mixed with dark fuscous. 

 Hindwings fuscous, lighter anteriorly ; cilia fuscous- whitish, 

 basal half mixed with fuscous. 



Duaringa, Queensland, in October and November (G. Bar- 

 nard) : five specimens. 



Lovs^or's type was from Bulimba. 



Related generally to the trijugella group, but very distinct, 



PYRGOPTILA, Meyr. 

 Pyrgoptila zelotis, n. sp. 

 Male, 20 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax whitish- 

 ochreous mixed with dark fuscous. Abdomen ochreous, «ieg- 

 mental margins whitish-ochreous. Legs dark fuscous, ringed 

 with whitish-ochreous, hairsi of posterior tibiae whitish- 

 ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa anteriorly mode- 

 rately, posteriorly gently arched, apex obtuse, ter- 



