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-costal edge near base ochreous; cilia white; along dorsal mar- 

 giij a fringe of large bright-ochreous scales. Hindwings with 

 termen rounded ; white ; cilia white. 



Mount Tambourine, Queensland, in November ajid 

 February; four specimens. 



PORTHESIA PANABRA, n. Sp. 



Male, 24-26 mm. ; female, 40 mm. Head, thorax, and an- 

 tennas white. Palpi white. Abdomen white; tuft bright 

 ochreous. Legs white. Porewings triangular, costa strongly- 

 arched, apex rounded, termen rounded, oblique ; clear white ; 

 costal edge near base ochreous; cilia white; along dorsal 

 margin a fringe of white scales, mixed with a few larger pale 

 ochreous scales. Hindwings with termen rounded; white; 

 cilia white. 



Closely allied to the preceding, but the abdomen is white, 

 and ochreous coloring much less pronounced. 



Brisbane and Mount Tambourine, Queensland, in March and 

 April ; three specimens. 



PORTHESIA GALACTOPIS, U, Sp. 



Male, 18-25 mm. ; female, 26-30 mm. Head, thorax, and 

 antennae white. Palpi white, external surface in male pale 

 ochreous. Abdomen white ; tuft ochreous, in male sometimes 

 whitish. Legs white ; anterior pair in male ochreous-tinged. 

 Forewings triangular, costa rather strongly arched, especially 

 in female, apex rounded, termen oblique, scarcely rounded in 

 male, rounded in female ; dull milk-white ; base of costal edge 

 ochreous in male ; cilia white. Hindwings with termen 

 rounded : white ; cilia white. 



Best distinguished from the preceding by the absence of 

 ochreous scales on dorsal margin of forewings. 



Mareeba and Townsville, Queensland, from May to October ; 

 <;omnion. 



PORTHESIA FIMBRIATA, LuC. 



{Teara frmhriata, Luc. Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., 1891, p. 

 285.) 



Forewings of male pale ochreous-yellow, more or less suffused 

 with purple-grey, leaving a wavy-margined ochreous-yellow ter- 

 minal band, and sometimes also a costal streak of the same 

 <jolor ; cilia ochreous-yellow. Hindwings ochre ous-whitish ; 

 <!ilia pale ochreous. Female with both wings and cilia whitish. 



Stradbrooke Island, Queensland, in October; locally 

 <)ommon. 



