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conspicuous white line with dorsum beyond middle; a dark- 

 fuscous short transverse bar from costa beyond middle, suc- 

 ceeded by a squarish dark-fuscous subcostal blotch, evenly 

 and narrowly margined with white ; a faint whitish line from 

 posterior edge of blotch towards tornus ; a suffused white line 

 close to termen ; cilia grey, bases whitish. Hindwings with 

 termen rounded; pale brownish; cilia whitish-grey, with a 

 white median line. 



Townsville, Queensland, in Seiptember; one specimen re- 

 ceived from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



BiRTHAMA PLAGIOSCIA, n. Sp. 



Male, 22 mm. ; female, 29 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and 

 abdomen dark brown. Antennae whitish-ochreous, in female 

 dark fuscous. Legs dark brown. Forewings triangular, 



costa incurved in male, or straight in female to near apex, apex 

 much rounded, termen long, rounded, strongly oblique ; dark 

 brown; an oblique darker shade from near costa at three- 

 fourths to mid-dorsum, well marked in female, nearly obsolete 

 in male ; a broad dark shade from costa immediately beyond 

 this line, not extending more than one-third across disc; cilia 

 dark brown. Hindwings with termen rounded ; fuscous or 

 dark brown ; cilia concolorous. 



Brisbane, Queensland ; three specimens. Mr. R. lUidge has 

 bred this species. 



The genus Birthama. Wlk., with vein 7 of forewings sepa- 

 rate, and veins 8, 9, 10 stalked, is connected with the following 

 genera (which have 7, 8, 9 stalked) by Natada, Wlk., with 

 8. 9 stalked, 7 and 10 separate. To Natada I refer Doratifera 

 ordinata. Butl., rolUgans, Luc. 



BiRTHAMA DISCOTYPA, n. Sp. 



Male, 22 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax brownish-fuscous. 

 Antennae ochreous-fuscous ; male with long double pectina- 

 tions on basal two-fifths, thence slightly serrate. Legs fus- 

 cous. Forewings triangular, costa straight to near apex, apex 

 rounded, termen rounded, slightly oblique; brownish-grey 

 with a few dark fuscous scales ; a large circular fuscous brown 

 patch, edged posteriorly with white on dorsum from near base 

 to middle; a similar circular white-edge patch on costa from 

 three-fifths to near apex ; cilia grey. Hindwings with termett 

 rounded ; dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Queensland ( ?), one specimen without locality in the collec- 

 tion of the Agricultural Department. 



