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ochreous; a diseal spot at two-thirds; a sinuate line from five-sixths costa to 

 two-thirds dorsum, sometimes incompletely developed, being represented only to- 

 wards margins; a dentate line vei-y near termen; cilia white with a basal series 

 of golden-ochreous dots. Hindwings with termen moderately rounded; whitish 

 more or less suffused with pale-golden-ochreous, leaving a terminal series of white 

 spots; cilia white, bases narrowly oclireous. 



N.W. Aust. : Sherlock River- three specimens including the type in the 

 British Museum, taken by Mr. E. Clements. 



9. EPICOMA MELANOSTICTA. 



Bomhyx melmiosticla, Don., Ins. N. Holl., 1805, p. 34. 



d. 38-44 mm. Head white, face ochreous. Antennae fuscous, sometimes 

 mixed with ochreous. Thorax whitish-ochreous or pale-brownish. Abdomen 

 blackish; a median dorsal series of ochreous spots, sometimes scarcely developed; 

 tuft ochreous, apices paler. Legs fuscous mixed with ochreous. Forewings tri- 

 angular, oosta straight, apex round-pointed, termen bowed, slightly oblique; 

 shining-white; an ochreous costal streak, irrorated with blackish; a small, 

 ochreous, median, diseal spot, with thick blackish margin; a tawny-fuscous 

 oblique streak from costa before apex, posterior to or touching diseal spot, 

 beneath it angled outwards to two-thirds dorsum; a slight dorsal iiToration of 

 ochreous and blackish; a variable, narrow, fuscous, terminal band, containing a 

 terminal series of white spots; cilia ochreous, more or less barred with blackish, 

 apices whitish-ochreous. Hindwings with termen rounded; fuscous; a terminal 

 series of rounded-triangular ochreous spots; cilia ochreous. 



?. 40-47 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-brown. Forewings more or less 

 suffused with brown, usually with only thinly scattered white scales; diseal spot 

 larger, blackish with small ochreous-brown centre; post-median line not developed. 

 Hindwings with ochreous spots smaller or dot-like. 



The ? may be as dark as that of tristis but is disting-uishable by the blackish 

 diseal spot. A.c? example from Stajithorpe has the forewings mostly suffused 

 with grey, and the hindwings without ochreous terminal spots. I regard it as an 

 aberration of this species. 



N. Qland: Atherton, Herberton; Qland: Nambour, Brisbane, Stradbroke Is., 

 Mt. Tambourine, Toowoomba, Stajithorpe; N.S.W. : Ebor, Sydney; Vict.: Day- 

 trap; Tas. : Launceston, Hobart; S. Aust.: Adelaide: W. Aust.: Busselton, Perth, 

 Waroona. 



10. Eptcoma tkistis. 



Bombyx tristis, Lewin, Prodr. Ent., 1805, p. 9, PI. viii.; Don., Ins. N. Holl., 

 1805, PI. 34:.— Epicoma contristis, Hb., Zutr., ii., 1823, p. 9, f. 217, 218.— E. 

 pontificalis, Rosen., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (5), xvi., 1885, p. 383.— ? Euproctis 

 pelodes, Low., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 1893, p. 150. 



<S. 34-50 mm. S. 40-44 mm. Head and thorax brown, rarely brown- 

 whitish. Antennae fuscous. Abdomen blackish; sometimes a median dorsal 

 series of achreous dots; tuft ' ochreous. Legs fuscous. Forewin^ triangular, 

 costa straight, apex round-pointed, termen bowed, slightly oblique; dark-fuscous 

 or brown, more or less irrorated with whitish or whitish-ochreous, rarely with 

 whitish suffusion; a small, ochreous, median, diseal spot sometimes edged with 

 fuscous (not blackish) scales; a terminal series of whitish or pale-ochreous dots; 

 cilia fuscous with fine ochreous bars. Hindwings , with termen rounded ; dark- 



