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Gen. ScoTOCYMA, Turn, 

 This comes near the European genus Epirrhoe, Hb., but 

 differs in 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 arising by a common stalk from 

 the small areole. 



SCOTOCYMA ALBINOTATA, Wlk. 



Mr. Prout informs me that Paragramma mirriula, Warr., 

 is a synonym, 



ScOTOCYMA IDIOSCHEMA, U, 6p, 



i8tocr;^T7/xos, of peculiar pattern. 



9 , 31-34 mm. Head whitish-brown mixed with dark 

 brown. Palpi slightly over 1 ; whitish-brown irrorated with 

 dark fuscous. Antennae grey. Thorax brown ; patagia partly 

 whitisli-brown. Abdomen brown. Legs whitish-ochreous ; 

 anterior pair fuscous with whitish-ochreous basal annulations. 

 Forewings triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, 

 termen bowed, slightly oblique, crenulate; a fuscous basal 

 patch to J, containing some whitish-ochreous transverse lines 

 on costa prolonged to middle, and witli an inferior tooth near 

 extremity; remainder of disc except a costal strip, and tri- 

 angular apical and tornal areas occupied by a very large 

 whitish-ochreous blotch, suffused with brown, or dark 

 ferruginous-brown except at edges; costal strip fuscous 

 strigulated with whitish-ochreous; dorsal edge narrowly and 

 interruptedly fuscous ; apical and tornal triangles fuscous- 

 brown, containing an incomplete, fine, dentate, ochreous- 

 whitish line, sometimes forming a white spot above tornus, 

 a white spot sometimes present on margin of central blotch 

 above tornus; cilia fuscous partly mixed with whitish- 

 ochreous. Hindwings with termen rounded, dentate; 

 brownish; some whitish dots on veins; sometimes obscure 

 pale-fuscous transverse lines; some variable white spots pre- 

 ceding termen ; a dark-fuscous terminal line ; cilia fuscous- 

 brown. Underside whitish with many, more or less distinct, 

 transverse lines and a broad subterminal fascia fuscous. 



North Queensland: Kuranda, in November (Coll. Lyell) ; 

 Evelyn Scrub, near Herberton, in October, Queensland: 

 Brisbane, in January. Three specimens. 



ScOTOCYMA EURYOCHRA, n. sp. 



€i»/ovo>xpos, broadly pale. 



9 , 34 mm. Head dark fuscous. Palpi 1 ; dark fuscous 

 with a few whitish scales. Antennae fuscous. Thorax fus- 

 cous. Abdomen grey; apex fuscous. Legs fuscous; tarsi 

 with fine ochreous-whitish annulations ; posterior pair mostly 

 ochreous-whitish, Forewings triangular, costa moderately 

 arched, apex rounded-rectangular, termen bowed, slightly 



