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Descriptions of New Australian 

 Geometrina, &c. 



By Oswald B. Lower, F.E.S., Lond., &c. 



[Read September 2, 1902 ] 



GEOMETRINA. 



HYDRIOMENIAD.E. 



Hydriomena actinipha, n. sp. 



Female, 24 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and legs 

 fuscous-whitish thorax with a faint fuscous anterior band. 

 Abdomen greyish-ochreous. Forewings elongate-triangular^ 

 termen waved, obliquely rounded ; ochreous-whitish, markings- 

 fuscous, well defined, anterior edge' of basal patch gently curved, 

 and finely edged posteriorly by a narrorw streak of whitish 

 throughout, from one-fifth costa to one-fourth inner margin ; a 

 fine transverse line of fuscous in middle of patch ; median band 

 broad on upper half, finely edged on either side with streak of 

 white, anterior edge from one-third costa to beyond one-third 

 inner margin, strongly indented below middle and with a 

 short projection below costa, posterior edge from beyond two- 

 thirds of costa to two-thirds inner margin, with a strong acute 

 projection in middle ; gi'ound color between basal patch and 

 median band and subterminal line sometimes wholly pale 

 ochreous ; a black discal dot in middle of median band ; sub- 

 terminal waved, irregular, whitish, anteriorly edged with fus- 

 cous ; a sharply defined oblique white streak from apex to sub- 

 terminal below costa ; a fine waved black line along termen ; 

 cilia whitish, barred with fuscous. Hindwings with termen 

 waved ; grey-whitish ; median patch faintly indicated in fus- 

 cous; subterminal and line along termen as in forewings; cilia 

 as in forewings. 



Nearest cryeroiia, Meyr. 



Broken Hill, New South AVales ; two sp-ecimens, in March. 



STEKRHID^. 



EOIS STENOZONA, n. Sp. 



Female, 24 mm. Head, palpi, antenn?e, and thorax whitish, 

 face blackish, collar light ferruginous. Legs ochreous- 

 whitish. Abdomen grey-whitish. ForeAvings elongate-trian- 



