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. ochreous-yellow ; costal edge ochreous-yellow ; cilia pale 

 ochreous. Hindwings with termen rounded ; dark grey ; cilia 

 .grey or whitish-oclireous. 



Allied to E. chrysoplicea, Wlk., but smaller, and with the 

 wings nearly concolorous. 



Kiu-anda and Townsville, Queensland, in October and 

 January; two specimens. I should like to see the female of 

 fciiis species. 



EUPROCTIS ARROGANS, LuC. 



{Artaxa arrogans. Luc. Titans. Roy. Soc, Queensland, 1899, 

 140.) 



Male and female, 44-46 mm. Head, thorax, abdomen, and 

 .forewings reddish-orange; apical tuft of abdomen white. Hind- 

 wings ochreous or orange-ochreous. 



I think this is Lucas species, though he does not mention 

 iihe white tuft of abdomen. 



Cairns and Johnstone River, Queensland, in June and 

 November ; two specimens. There is a female in the British 

 Museum from Woodlark Island. 



EuPROCTIS HABROSTOLA, n. sp. 



Male, 43 mm. ; female, 58 mm. Head, thorax, and antennae 

 whitish-ochreous. Face and palpi ochreous. Abdomen 

 Mackish, towards base ochreous; lower surface ochreous; tuft 

 whitish. Legs whitish-ochreous. Forewdngs triangular, costa 

 moderately arched, apex rounded, teniien slightly rounded, 

 oblique; creamy-whitish without markings; cilia creamy- 

 whitish. Hindwings with termen rounded ; deep yellow ; 

 base to one-third suffused in female with dark fuscous, which 

 extends whole length of inner margin ; cilia yellow. 



Allied to E . uniformis, Moore, from India. 



Townsville, Queensland, in March ; one specimen bred by 

 Mr. F. P. Dodd from a larva feeding on Melaleuca. There is 

 .a male from Rockhampton, Queensland, in the Queensland 

 Museum. 



EuPROCTIS NIPHOBOLA, n. S(p. 



Male and female, 37-42 mm. Head, thorax, palpi, and an- 

 tennae fuscous; face in male brown, in female fuscous. Abdo- 

 men dark fuscous ; tuft in male ochreous in female grey. Legs 

 fuscous. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa moderately 

 arched, apex round-pointed, termen very oblique, in male 

 straight, in female slightly rounded ; fuscous, sparsely irrorated 

 with large triangular white scales, more densely in 

 posterior part of disc; a dark fuscous discal dot 



