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medial line with diffused rufous band on its inner edge ; a slight 

 dark postmedial line excurvcd below costa and produced outwards 

 to a tooth at middle, the area beyond it rufous, somewhat paler 

 towards termen ; some white points on costa towards apex and 

 traces of a sinuous white subterminal line ; cilia pale reddish oeh- 

 reous with a white line at base. Hind wing ochreous yellow, the 

 terminal area slightly tin2;ed with rufous or the basal area whiter 

 and the terminal area darker ; cilia pale reddish ochreous ; the 

 underside yellow tinged with rufous. 



Hah. jS". Austealia, Roebuck Bay (J. J. Walker), 1 f , Port 

 Darwin {J. J. Wall-er), 1 (S ; W. Australia, Sherlock II. [Clements), 

 1 (5,1 $ ; Queensland, Duaringa {^Arnold), 6 6 • Exp. 16 millim. 



5195. Euhlemma lozostropha. (Plate CLIII. fig. 2.) 

 Euhlemma lozostrapha, Turner, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxvii. p. 118 (1902). 



Head and thorax rufous with some white on vertex of head and 

 tegulae ; abdomen red-brown with slight white segmental lines ; 

 palpi, pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white slightly 

 tinged with red-brown. Fore wing deep rufous with some darker 

 suffusion beyond the medial line and on terminal area ; medial line 

 oblique, white with some black scales on its inner edge ; traces of a 

 sinuous whitish postmedial line arising from the same point on 

 costa as the medial line ; some whitish points on costa towards 

 apex ; cilia white mixed with dark brown. Hind wing dark brown 

 slightly mixed with greyish ; cilia white mixed with dark brown ; 

 the underside whitish suffused and irrorated with brown except on 

 basal and inner areas, the costal area tinged with rufous towards 

 base. 



Hah. W, Australia, Sherlock R, {Clements), 1 $ , Roeburn, 9 5 ; 

 Queensland, Duaringa {Arnold), 1 c? , 3 5 . Exp. 14-16 millim. 



5196. Euhlemma sperans. 



Thalpockares sperans, Feld. Eei?. Nov. pi. 108. f. 9 (1874). 



9 . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark reddish brown with some 

 white on vertex of head and tegular and yellow at base of abdomen; 

 palpi white at base ; jjectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 brown mixed with white. Fore wing with the basal half deep 

 rufous, the terminal half purplish brown ; a slight antemedial black 

 point on costa ; medial line white, bounding the rufous area, oblique 

 and slightly angled outwards at discal and submedian folds ; an 

 indistinct dark postmedial line excurved below costa and at middle, 

 angled inwards at discal fold and incurved below vein 4, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white, punctiform. de- 

 fined on inner side by deep rufous suffusion, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle ; cilia with some white at lips. Hind wing deep 



