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•pointed, termen long, slightly rounded, very oblique ; trans- 

 lucent, being only very thinly covered with fine blackish hairs 

 except along costa and dorsum, and at apex, base, and discal 

 spot ; costal half of basal area whitish, dorsal half dark fuscous 

 mixed with whitish and brownish ; a fine white line from one- 

 fourth costa to one-third dorsum ; a broad brown streak irro- 

 rated with white scales along dorsum to tornus ; an oval black 

 spot above mid-dorsum ; a black di&cal spot at end of cell ; 

 veins outlined in brownish mixed with whitish ; a. white dot on 

 -costa at three-fourths, from which a faint oblique slightly sig- 

 moid white line proceeds to dorsum at two-thirds; a fuscous 

 suffusion at apex ; two black dots sometimes followed by a 

 third minute dot between veins near apex ; a very fine crenate 

 white sub-terminal line immediately follows these, and is con- 

 itinued to dorsum ; cilia very short, blackish tipped with 

 whitish. Hindwings produced at tornus, termen slightly 

 rounded; translucent with veins outlined as in forewings; 

 towards inner margin covered with long grey hairs mixed with 

 whitish ; a white line from two-thirds costa to tornus ; cilia 

 as forewings. 



Closely allied to Crexa j)unctigtra, Wlk., anthraroidtii, Wlk.), 

 iDut differs in having only a single discal spot and the sub- 

 terminal spots mostly obsolete. 



Brisbane, Queensland, January to March ; four specimens. 



Crexa punctigera, Wlk. 



{Entometa 'punciigera. Wlk., iv., 974 (male); Mecytha trima- 

 cula, Wlk., v., 1122 (female); Crexa anthra.xoides, Wlk., Suppl. 

 1927 (male); Dichromosoma majus, Feld., pi. Ixxxiii., f, 26 

 '(female). 



Mr. Lyell informs me that he took six similar larvae in a 

 -crevice in the bark of Exocarpus cupressiformis, and bred two 

 males and three females. 



Clathe pyrsocoma, n. sp. 



Male, 28 mm. ; female, 36 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax 

 purple-reddish. Antennse purple-reddish, pectinations 



whitish-ochreous. Abdomen purple-reddish. Legs purple- 

 reddish. Forewings triangular, costa in male straight to near 

 apex, in female gently rounded, apex round-pointed, termen 

 rounded, slightly oblique ; dull-reddish finely in'orated with 

 whitish hairs ; dorsum sometimes narrowly suffused with fus- 

 cous ; a median fuscous discal dot; in female a fine, crenulate, 

 outwardly curved line from three-fifths costa to mid-dorsum, 

 obsolete in male sjpecimen ; a sub-terminal series of minute fus- 



