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liorny frontal projection. Abdomen and legs grepsh, abdo- 

 men with a lateral row of fuscous dots. Fore wings elongate- 

 triangular, termen waved throughout ; rounded, oblique ; grey- 

 whitish, minutely irrorated with blackish, so as to appear 

 greyish-fuscous; lines blackish, sometimes well developed; first 

 from one-third costa. very strongly twice sinuate outwards, 

 thence returning to innermargin at one-third ; second from five- 

 sixths costa to two-thirds inner margin, strongly dentate 

 throughout, sinuate above and below middle, leaving a biden- 

 late projection in middle ; a black discal dot midway the two 

 lines ; a waved black line along termen ; cilia grey-whitish, with 

 a fuscous median line. Hindwings with termen gently waved, 

 rounded ; greyish, faintly irrorated with light fuscous beyond 

 second line ; first line and discal dot absent ; second line, line 

 along termen, and cilia as in forewings, but second line some- 

 •times absent. 



Not unlike some species of Taxeotis {Monocteniadce). The 

 female is more obscure than male ; and the second line of both 

 wings is better developed beneath, and in fresh specimens is 

 sometimes faintly edged with whitish posteriorly. 



Broken Hill. New South Wales ; three specimens, in April. 



THALAINODES, n. g. 



Face with broad flat horny projecting plate. Tongue de- 

 veloped. Palpi short, porrected, rough-scaled, terminal joint 

 «hort.. Antennse in male bipectinated to apex. Thorax with- 

 out crests, densely hairy beneath. Femore smooth, posterior 

 tibiae slightly dilated. Forewings in male with fovea; 10 out 

 of 9, 11 anastomosing or connected with 12, sometimes with 10 

 also. Hindwings normal. 



Intermediate in form between Amelora, Meyr., and Thalaina, 

 Walk., but apparently most related to the latter, from which it 

 differs by the horny projection of face and bipectinated an- 

 tenn?e. 



Thalainodes tetraclada. Lower. 



(Amelora tetrarlada. Lower, P.L.S., N.S.W., p. 406. 1900.) 



Thalainodes paronycha, Lower. 

 (Anieloi-a paronycha. Lower, I.e., p. 407, 1900.) 

 Having recently obtained male specimens, I find that my 

 conjecture, that this species would possibly prove to be the 

 female of the previous species, was unwarranted. The anten- 

 nal pectinations are 4 ; the other details are precisely similar 

 to the female. 



