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not reaching dorsum ; an incomplete interrupted narrow dark 

 fuscous sub-terminal line ; cilia white. Hindwings with ter- 

 men rounded ; white ; cilia white. 



Cooktown, Queensland ; one specimen in Coll. Lyell. 

 Anthela phoenicias, n. sp. 



Male, 36-42 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and abdo- 

 men vinous-purple. Legs vinous-purple. Fore wings trian- 

 gular, costa straight, apex rounded, termen rather strongly- 

 bowed, slightly oblique ; vinous-purple without markings ; cilia 

 vinous-purple. Hindwings with termen rounded; vinoua- 

 purple ; cilia vinous-piu'ple. 



The coloring is uniform throughout. There is a specimen 

 of this species unnamed in the British Museum. It does not 

 correspond to any of Walker's types. 



Brisbane and Stanthorpe, Queensland, in January and Feb- 

 ruary ; two specimens. There is also a specimen in Coll. Lyell 

 from Roeburne, North- West Australia. 



Anthela (type ferruginosa, Wlk., iv., 854) includes and super- 

 sedes Darala (type ocellata, Wlk., iv., 887.) 



Anthela aspilota, n. sp. 



Female, 44 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, 

 and legs pale brownish-ochreous. Palpi with loose spreading 

 hairs. Forewings triangular, costa moderately arched, apex 

 rounded, termen rounded, oblique, rather thinly scaled ; pale 

 brownish-ochreous ; cilia pale brownish-ochreous. Hindwings 

 with termen rounded ; vein 8 connected by a bar with cell ; 

 pale brownish-ochreous; cilia pale brownish-ochreous. 



Another unicolorus species for which I can find no name. 



Stanthorpe, Queensland, in January; one specimen. 



Anthela neurospasta, n. sp. 



Male, 38 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish; face 

 and palpi ochreous. Antennae whitish, pectinations brownish- 

 fuscous. Legs fuscous, posterior surfaces whitish. Fore- 

 wings triangular, costa straight, slightly arched towards apex, 

 .apex rounded, termen strongly rounded, slightly oblique; 

 whitish, with pale fuscous streaks; a streak along costa, a 

 second from disc at one-fourth to termen, a third along fold 

 and continued to tornus ; six shorter streaks running into ter- 

 men, three above and three beneath median streak; cilia 

 whitish. Hindwings with termen rounded ; color and mark- 

 ings as forewings, but costal streak absent, and dorsal streak 

 not continued to base. 



Cooktown, Queensland ; one specimen in Coll. Lyell. 



