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NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPI DOPTERA.-NO. XXV. 



By Oswald B. Lower, F.Z.S., F.E.S., etc. 



[Read August 4, 1908.] 



' NOCTUID^. 

 AGROTIN^E. 

 ^Meliceptria flavitincta, n. sp. 

 9 , 34 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen pale 

 yellow. Legs pale yellow tinged with fuscous. Forewings 

 elongate, moderate, costa gently arched, termen rounded 

 oblique; pale yellow, with dark fuscous, moderately thick, 

 markings; a short basal fascia; a strongly waved fascia from 

 costa at J to dorsum at J, with an elongate projection out- 

 wards below middle; a moderately large round discal spot; 

 a transverse fascia, somewhat waved, from costa just beyond 

 middle, reaching only half across wing; a waved fascia from 

 just beyond last fascia, from beneath costa to dorsum at | 

 strongly bowed on iipper half; a transverse fascia beyond 

 this and parallel, more or less broken into spots and becoming 

 obsolete in middle; a row of spots along termen; cilia pale 

 yellow with fuscous spots at extremities of veins. Hind wings 

 with termen rounded ; pale yellow ; a broad fuscous band 

 along termen; cilia pale yellow. 



Derby, Western Australia. One specimen (without 

 date). 



Proteuxoa euglypta, n. sp. 

 $ , 34 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax brown- 

 ish-fuscous, mixed with whitish, thorax with a narrow trans- 

 verse anterior whitish band, anteriorly edged with a fine 

 line of black; a short transverse blackish bar above middle 

 of thorax, and two more or less quadrate spots on posterior 

 half, upper largest, patagia broadly white, with a fine fus- 

 cous anterior line. Legs fuscous, sprinkled with white, tibiae 

 and tarsi banded with white. Forewings elongate-moderate, 

 costa straight, termen rounded, faintly waved; ochreous- 

 fuscous, with whitish markings, finely edged with black; a 

 spot at base; a strongly waved moderately thick transverse 

 fascia, from costa near base, reaching more than half across 

 wing; a tridentate oblique fascia from costa at -J^ to J dor- 

 sum, connected with previous fascia in middle by a short 



* The names preceded by an asterisk were kindly suggested 

 by Sir G. Hanipson, to whom I am indebted for considerable help 

 in determining many species. 



