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white, with brownish -fuscous markings ; costa obliquely strig- 

 ulated throughout with short equidistant marks, posteriorly 

 becoming better defined, the last six separated by whitish 

 ground colour : a more or less interrupted blackish submedian 

 longitudinal streak, darkest on basal third and edged below 

 throughout by its own width with ferruginous-fuscous, ex- 

 tending from base to f, ground colour above whitish ; a patch 

 of pale-fuscous along termen, rather broad at apex, thence 

 curved inwards and rapidly attenuated to tornus : an elongate 

 blackish spot in patch above middle, edged above by a streak 

 of whitish ; a small blackish spot on termen above middle ; 

 several fine, somewhat dot-like transverse strigulge on pos- 

 terior half of wing : a narrow fuscous shade along dorsum ; 

 cilia whitish, with a ferruginous median line and some scat- 

 tered black points. Hindwings fuscous; cilia fuscous, with a 

 paler basal line. 



North Queensland. One specimen : in January. 



Pal^obia peltosema, n. sp. 

 9 , 12 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax very pale-green- 

 ish-white, palpi beneath whitish. Antennae pale-greenish- 

 white, fuscous-tinged. Abdomen greyish-fuscous. Legs 

 whitish, anterior and middle tarsi banded with fuscous. Fore- 

 wings elongate, moderate, costa hardly arched, termen rather 

 strongly sinuate beneath apex, apex somewhat produced ; 

 pale-greenish-white, finely stigulated throughout with light- 

 fuscous, paler towards base of costa ; costa obliquely strigu- 

 lated with short fuscous marks : a rather large triangular fus- 

 cous patch on costa, extending from just beyond middle and 

 continued nearly to apex, apex of patch reaching nearly j 

 across wing ; in the patch are 4 or 5 small oblique pairs of 

 whitish marks ; a fine fuscous, interrupted line along termen ; 

 cilia greyish-fuscous, with a sharp tooth of fuscous at apex, 

 being the continuation of the triangular patch. Hindwings 

 thinly scaled ; pale-fuscous : cilia grey, with a fuscous sub- 

 basal line. 



Mackay, Queensland. One specimen ; in November. 



Strepsiceros lasiophora, n. sp. 

 c? 9 > 16 ^^- Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax dark- 

 brownish-fuscous, palpi paler internally and beneath. Abdo- 

 men pale-fuscous. Anterior and middle legs fuscous, tarsi 

 banded with white, posterior legs whitish, banded with fus- 

 cous. Forewings elongate, moderate, rather narrow, termen 

 nearly straight, hardly oblique. Costal fold of d rather 

 broad, extending from base to near middle, and containing 

 a large tuft of ochreous wool-like hairs : brownish-fuscous, 

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