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apex, thence rounded; whitish, towards termen broad!v 
fuscous ; cilia whitish, obseurely barred with fuscous. ; 
A neat and very distinct species. Type in Coll., Illidge. 
Q., Eumundi, near Nambour. One specimen, bred from 
Casuarina, by Mr. R. Illidge. 
PRAXIS ALAMPETA, n. Sp. 
(Alampetos, dark, unlightened.) 
Female, 32 mm. Head and palpi dark fuscous, mixed 
with pinkish-white. Thorax dark fuscous, mixed with 
brown-whitish. Abdomen dark fuscous, irrorated wi:h 
white; a small pinkish tuft on mid-dorsum. Legs dark 
fuscous, irrorated with whitish; posterior pair mostly 
whitish; tarsi  annulated with  pinkish-white. Fors- 
wings triangular, costa straight, termen bowed, 
slightly oblique, crenulate; dark fuscous,  irrorated 
with whitish; in basal half are several ill-defined, waved, 
blackish, transverse lines; an obscure 8-shaped whitish spot 
beneath one-third costa, connected by a whitish suffusion 
with dorsum; an obscure, finely dentate, white, postmedian 
line, and a similar more distinct subterminal line; a blackish 
terminallime, preceded by a series of whitish dots, cilia fus- 
cous, mixed with whitish. Hindwings with termen rounded, 
crenulate ; dark fuscous; base whitish ; a white line from *wo- 
thirds dorsum nearly to costa; a short, nearly parallel, white 
line from tornus; terminal line and cilia as in forewings. 
But for the abscence of red scales on the wings this /s 
very similar to marmarinopa, Meyr. 
Type in Coll, Turner. 
Q., Brisbane, in January. One specimen. 
LYNCESTIS MACROSTICHA, n. Sp. 
( Maerostichos, long-streaked.) 
Male, 48 mm. Head and palpi whitish, irrorated with a 
few brownish scales; terminal joint of palpı annulated with 
dark fuscous. Antenn® ochreous-fuscous, towards base 
whitish ; in male shortly laminate, very shortly ciliated (1). 
Thorax grey-whitish ; collar whitish, irrorated with brown- 
ish, with a median blackish transverse line: posterior crest 
well marked, brownish tinged. Abdomen whitish, apices of 
segments ochreous, basal crests grey-brownish. Legs whitish, 
irrorated with brownish and fuscous. | Forewings elongate, 
costa straight, termen bowed, oblique, crenulate:; white, suf- 
fused with grey : a blackish streak from base beneath cell and 
vein two to termen ; a similar streak from end of cell becom- 
ing suffused and bent upwards near termen; a V-shaped, 
blackish, suffused mark resting on termen above termination 
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