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whitish-ochreous. Hindwings with termen rounded; orange; 

 some fuscous irroration at base; three fine, fuscous, transverse 

 lines, strongly angled in middle, in female obsolete; a dark- 

 fuscous terminal band, much narrower in female; cilia as 

 forewings. Underside ochreous; forewings with fuscous discal 

 dot, postmedian fascia strongly dilated towards dorsum so as 

 to join a terminal fascia, which is, however, mostly obsolete 

 in female; hindwing with postmedian line and terminal fascia 

 in male, in female hardly developed. 



Tasmania : Cradle Mountain, in January ; two specimens 

 received from Dr. R. J. Tillyard. Type in Coll. Lyell. 



Dasysternica crypsiphoena, n. sp. 

 Kpvil/L(f>oivo<s, with hidden red. 



9 , 26 mm. Head and palpi dark fuscous irrorated with 

 whitish. Antennae fuscous. Thorax dark fuscous irrorated 

 with whitish. [Abdomen broken off.] Legs dark fuscous 

 irrorated, and tarsi annulated, with whitish [posterior pair 

 missing]. Forewings triangular, costa slightly arched, apex 

 round-pointed, termen bowed, slightly oblique, slightly crenu- 

 late; whitish suffused with grey and on costa with fuscous; 

 a subbasal fuscous fascia, containing some reddish scales, not 

 reaching dorsum; this is followed by a whitish line, and this 

 again by a ferruginous fascia at -g-, becoming fuscous at ex- 

 tremities, and containing a small patch of reddish scales 

 beneath costa; a median band consisting of two fasciae 

 enclosing a pale area in which is a minute, fuscous, median, 

 discal dot; inner fascia at J, outwardly curved, edged with 

 fuscous and partly filled in with reddish-ferruginous; outer 

 fascia from | costa at first outwardly oblique, with an 

 obtusely-angled posterior projection beneath costa, and 

 another, double, in middle, thence dentate to | dorsum, out- 

 lined with dark fuscous, and containing some reddish streaks 

 on veins; a reddish-ferruginous band of suffusion separated 

 from preceding fascia by a whitish line, and containing a 

 wavy fuscous line; some obscure fuscous spots on termen; 

 cilia fuscous barred with whitish. Hindwings with termen 

 rounded; grey, with three obscure whitish lines beyond middle, 

 parallel to termen; cilia grey, apices whitish. IJnderside of 

 forewings paler than upperside, with four transverse fuscous 

 lines, the first median, the second followed by a whitish line, 

 the fourth by a series of whitish dots ; of hindwings like that 

 of forewings, with a discal fuscous dot at J. 



Type in Queensland Museum. It is possible that this 

 may be identical with Epirrhoe bertha, Swin. (Trans. Ent. 

 Soc, 1902, p. 648). 



