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streak of ground color; an irregular quadi-ate spot on cost "3. 

 before ap^ex ; a smaller spot just before it, from which proceeds 

 an outwardly curved series of spots terminating on upper (^age 

 of innermarginal patch ; a fine white subterminal line ; cilia 

 fuscous, becoming mixed with whitish scales at base. Hind- 

 wings orange-yellow ; a narrow fuscous apical streak ; cilia 

 orange, fuscous-tinged around apex. 



Penola, South Australia ; one specimen, in November. 



BOMBYCID^. 



EUPROCTIS EURYZONA, U. Sp. 



Male, 22 mm. Head, thorax, palpi, legs and abdomen dark 

 orange fuscous. Antennae ochreous, pectinations fuscous, 

 Forewings elongate-triangular, termen strongly rounded, 

 oblique; deep ochreous-fuscous minutely irrorated with 

 dull ochreous-whitish scales; costal edge ipaler ochreous; 

 two moderately thick ochreous-fuscouS transverse fasciae,, 

 first before middle, moderately straight; second from 

 two-thirds costa to innermargin to before anal angle, mode- 

 rately curved outwards on upper half; cilia ochreous-fuscous, 

 terminal half lighter. Hinclwings dull orange ; paler on basal 

 half ; cilia as in forewings. 



Henley Beach, South Australia ; two specimens, in Novem- 

 ber. 



BoMBYX (Cosmotrjche) oxygramma, n. sp. 



Male, 38 mm. Head and thorax ashy-grey, palpi dark fus- 

 cous. Antennas whitish, pectinations 6, dark fuscous. Abdo- 

 men and legs ashy-grey, tarsi ringed with whitish. Forewings 

 elongate-triangular, costa faintly sinuate, termen rounded, 

 somewhat oblique; cinereous-grey; median third somew^hat 

 tinged with ochreous ; a long round black discal spot in middle ; 

 a thick, well-defined, very strongly dentate transverse black 

 fascia, from just before apex to beyond middle of innermargin, 

 continued as a moderate streak along innermargin towards 

 base ; veins faintly outlined with ochreous-fuscous ; a row ot 

 large black spots along termen and base of cilia; interneural 

 spaces with hne black lines, continued to spots along tennen ; 

 cilia greyish. Hindwings with termen rounded ; white ; 

 costal edge fuscous ; spots along termen and cilia as in fore- 

 wings. 



Related to niioleAica, Meyr., and its allies; but very distinct 

 by the curious oblique strongly dentate black fascia and discal 

 dot. It is an easily recognised species. 



Broken Hill. New South Wales ; one specimen, in May. 



