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PORTHESIA LUTEA, Fab. 



{Artaxa clirysophila, Wlk. Suppl. 334; lArtaxa varians, 

 Wlk., iv., 796 ; Porthesia iohrota, Meyr. Trans. E-oy. Soc, 

 S.A., 1891, p. 194 ; Artaxa clirysophcea, Luc. Proc. Linn. Soc, 

 N.S.W., 1892, nee Wlk. 



This species varies in size and intensity of coloring, speci- 

 mens from southern Queensland excelling in both respects. 

 There is a vai'iety occasionally met with in both sexes with 

 hindwings irrorateH with fuscous. 



Cairns, Kuranda, Townsville, Rockhampton, and Brisbane, 

 Queensland; common. 



EUPROCTIS CHIONITIS, n. Sip. 



Male, 25-29 mm.; female, 31-35 mm. Head white, tinged 

 with pale ochreous on crown. Pale ochreous. Antennse 

 white. Thorax and abdomen white ; tuft in male white or 

 orange, in female ochreous. Legs white; anterior coxae and 

 inner surface of anterior femora and tibiae bright ochreous in 

 male. Forewings triangular, costa rather strongly arched, 

 apex rounded, termen oblique, rounded ; snow white ; base of 

 costal edge ochreous; cilia white. Hindwings with termen 

 rounded ; color and cilia as forewings. 



Vein 9 of forewings is absent in this species. 



Cardwell and Brisbane, Queensland ; common. 



This species has stood in collections as ohsoleta, Fab. I have 

 seen the Fabrician type of ohsoleta in the British Museum, and 

 identify it with Laelia eremcea, Meyr. 



EuPROCTIS AMPHIDETA, n. Sp. 



Male, 26 mm. Head, palpi, and antennse pale yellow. 

 Thorax and abdomen ochreous-yellow. Legs pale yellow. 

 Forewings triangular, costa rather strongly arched, 

 apex rounded, termen slightly rounded, slightly ob- 

 lique; vein 9 absent; orange-ochreous, suffused with pale 

 grey except near costa, and a spot in disc beneath mid-costa ; 

 a pale yellowish terminal band, indented at two-fifths of 

 termen; cilia pale yellowish. Hindwings with termen 

 rounded ; ochreous-yellow ; cilia pale yellowish. 



This pretty species recalls Porthesia fimhriata, Luc, in its 

 markings. 



Townsville, Queensland, in March and April ; two specimens 

 received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



