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with reddish, and irrorated with dar) fuscous: anterior pair 
in male fuscous. Forewings triangular, costa straight ex- 
cept close to base and apex, apex pointed, termen slightly 
rounded, slightly oblique; purplish- reddish- or ochreous- 
grey, with a few scattered, dark fuscous scales: a straight 
line from one-quarter costa to one-quarter dorsum, jale 
fuscous, sometimes edged anteriorly with pale ochreous, 
sometimes obsclete, or repre:ented by two or three dark 
fuscous dots; a faint linear discal dot sometimes obsolete: a 
line similar to first from three-quarters costa to two-thirds 
dorsum, slightly bent in middle, sometimes represented by a 
series of dots; cilia concolorous. Hindwings with termen 
rounded; colour and markings as forewings, but without 
basal line and discal dot. 
Type in Coll, Turner. 
N.Q., Townsville; in July (Dodd). Q., Brisbane, Dalby. 
Seven specimens. 
Genus, SYSTATICA, nov. 
(Systatikos, connecting.) 
Face smooth. Tongue welı developed. Palpi ascending, 
reaching vertex, densely haired, terminal joint concealed. 
Antenne in male with a single row of pectinations on outer 
side, apical one-sixth simple. ^ Legs smooth, posterior and 
middle tarsi with à few spinules. Forewings with 7, 8, 9 
stalked, 10, 11 stalked, 10 closely approximated to 9, but not 
connected, 12 free. Hindwings with 6 and 7 separate. 
Туре S. ranthastis. This genus forms a connecting link 
between Epidesmia and Monoctenia. 
SYSTATICA XANTHASTIS. 
Monoctenia (7) «anthastis, Low., Tr.R.S.S.A., 1894, p. 85. 
Q., Gympie, Mount Tambourine; in March. Two speci- 
mens. 
Genus, Homospora, nov. 
( HL omosporos, of the same ancestry.) 
Face with strong, obtuse, conical chitinous projection. 
Tongue well developed. Antenne in male bipectinated to 
apex. Palpi moderate, subascending; terminal joint very 
short. Thorax stout, densely rough-haired beneath. Legs 
without tarsal spines; anterior tibiæ densely tufted with long 
hairs beneath; posterior tibiæ without middle spurs. Fore- 
wings with 3 and 4 from angle of cell, 6 from upper angle, 
7, 8, 9 stalked, 10 connected by a bar with 8 and 9 beyond 7, 
11 free. Hindwings with 5 from above middle of cell, 6 and 
T connate. 
Allied to Arrhodia, Gn., from which it differs in the fron- 
tal projection, absence of hook on anterior tibie, and con- 
nection of vein 10 of forewings with 8 and 9. 
