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grey. Thorax and abdomen grey. Legs fuscous, irrorated, 

 and tarsi annul ated with whitish. Fore wings broadly tri- 

 angular, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen 

 straight, oblique, crenulate; brown-whitish; markings fus- 

 cous; a moderate basal patch, its posterior edge well defined, 

 obliquely rounded, from J costa to J dorsum; a moderately 

 broad median band, anterior edge outwardly curved, ill- 

 defined, from J costa to J dorsum, posterior edge from | costa 

 to I dorsum, with a large acutely-angled median projection; 

 several very fine, ill-defined, finely-waved lines precede and 

 follow median band, and are traceable in the band itself; a 

 dark-fuscous discal dot slightly before middle; a fine terminal 

 line; cilia fuscous, bases and apices partly whitish. Hind- 

 wings with termen gently rounded, crenulate; pale grey, with 

 indications of fine, transverse, fuscous lines towards dorsum; 

 cilia grey, bases and apices partly whitish. Underside fuscoue- 

 grey, with dark-fuscoue discal dots on fore- and hind wings. 



New South Wales: Mount Kosciusko, on March 2, 1912; 

 two specimens. 



Gen. Dasysternica, n. gen. 



I substitute this name for Dasysterna, Turn., which is 

 preoccupied. 



Dasysternica pericalles, n. sp. 

 TreptKaWr]^, very beautiful. 



d , 9 , 23-27 mm. Head dark fuscous irrorated with 

 ochreous. Palpi 3; ochreous with some dark-fuscous hairs. 

 Antennae dark fuscous with fine whitish annulations ; in male 

 thickened and slightly laminate, ciliations ^. Thorax dark 

 fuscous irrorated with ochreous. Abdomen dark fuscous plen- 

 tifully irrorated with ochreous; beneath ochreous. Legs pale 

 ochreous with fuscous irroration, tarsi fuscous annulated with 

 pale ochreous. Forewings triangular, costa slightly arched, 

 apex round-pointed, termen bowed, oblique; fuscous with 

 brownish and whitish irroration in parts ; a basal patch limited 

 by an outwardly curved, dark-fuscous and brownish, trans- 

 verse, subbasal fascia; beyond this is a pale fascia containing 

 some whitish irroration ; median band outlined by two dark- 

 fuscous and brown fasciae, its centre paler, with a minute, 

 fuscous, median, discal dot sometimes indicated; anterior 

 fascia from J costa to f dorsum, outwardly curved, its anterior 

 edge twice indented and whitish ; posterior fascia from | costa 

 to f dorsum, its posterior edge whitish, with a small posterior 

 tooth above middle, and a large bidentate prominence in 

 middle; one or two fine parallel fuscous lines beyond this are 

 sometimes traceable; sometimes an indistinct pale subterminaj 

 line ; cilia fuscous, apices whitish-ochreous or barred with 



