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until the male genitalia have been examined and compared 

 by a competent authority, this doubt is likely to continue. 



Sodaliata female is very distinct by its uniform dark 

 suffusion; the male has a uniformly dark median band on 

 forewing, without brown or purplish tinge, while the terminal 

 area is paler or even whitish. From eastern examples of male 

 suhidaria I have little difficulty in distinguishing it, but some 

 Western Australian examples (which may represent a third 

 species) are very similar. 



Northern Queensland : Atherton, Herberton, Townsville. 

 Queensland : Eidsvold, Gayndah, Nambour, Brisbane, Strad- 

 broke Island, Mount Tambourine, Killarney, Nanango, Stan- 

 thorpe, Roma. New South Wales : Murwillumbah, Lismore, 

 Glen Innes, Ebor, Sydney, Moruya. Tasmania: Hobart. 

 Also from Norfolk Island. 



Xanthokhoe epia, n. sp. 

 rj7no<;, soft. 



d* , 9 , 29-34 mm. Head brownish-grey, sometimes partly 

 reddish tinged. Palpi 3; brownish-grey. Antennae grey; 

 pectinations in male 6, Thorax and abdomen grey. I^egs grey; 

 posterior pair paler. Forewings triangular, costa nearly 

 straight to |, thence arched, apex pointed, termen bowed, 

 oblique; grey with numerous fine, oblique, fuscous, transverse 

 lines, more or less reddish tinged; sometimes the lines and 

 disc are wholly reddish; a small slightly darker basal patch; 

 median band darker, moderately broad on costa and in middle, 

 then narrowed to dorsum to half this breadth, anterior edge 

 from ^ costa to beyond ^ dorsum, slightly curved, posterior 

 edge from § costa to before | dorsum, very obtusely angled 

 outwards in middle, sometimes a fuscous discal dot beneath 

 costa before middle; cilia pale fuscous, reddish tinged, apices 

 paler. Hindwings with termen rounded; grey; a series of 

 alternate darker and paler transverse lines from dorsum not 

 reaching middle; a fine, interrupted, fuscous terminal line; 

 cilia grey. 



The sexes are similar. Nearest X. centroneura, Meyr., 

 which has the ground-colour much paler and contrasting with 

 the median band, whose outer edge is more angled, and has 

 also numerous blackish dots on veins. 



New South Wales: Mount Kosciusko (5,000 ft.), in 

 February and March; 5 male and 6 female examples. 



Xanthorhoe metoporina, n. sp. 

 /xeTOTTOjptvo?, autumnal. 



9, 32 mm. Head grey-whitish with dark fuscous; tuft 

 fuscous. Palpi 2J; fuscous; base narrowly white. Antennae 



