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dot-. Legs ochreous-wliitish ; anterior pair fuscous in front, 

 posterior tibiae in female with terminal spurs only. Forewings 

 triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen bowed, 

 oblique; ochreous-whitish with slight pale-grey suffusion and 

 dark-fuscous dots; a median basal dot; five dots representing 

 an antemedian line angled outwards beneath costa; a median, 

 subcostal discal dot; a series of dots in a line from f costa to 

 mid-dorsum; another series representing an undulating sub- 

 terminal line; some grey submarginal suffusion; a terminal 

 series of dots extending into cilia; cilia ochreous-whitish. 

 Hindwings with termen rounded; as forewings. Underside 

 similar. 



Northern Queensland: Kuranda, in June; one specimen. 



Gen. AciDALiA, Treit. 



I adopt this name for the genus to which I formerly 

 attributed the name Leptomeris, Hb. Th© absence of long- 

 stalking of veins 6 and 7 of the hindwings may generally be 

 relied on as a distinguishing character from Eois, though 

 short-stalking is not uncommon, 



ACIDALIA DESPOLIATA, Wlk. 



S , 18 mm. Antennae moderately ciliated (1). Posterior 

 femora of male short, tibiae elongate (2J), swollen, smooth- 

 scaled, without spurs, tarsi very short in comparison (1/lOth). 

 No doubt the tibiae contain an internal groove and tuft of 

 hairs which are not visible in my example. The relative sizes 

 of femora, tibiae, and tarsi here attain their maximum dis- 

 proportion. A . optivata, which comes next, has tibiae 2, 

 tarsi ^. 



I took one male at Caloundra, Queensland, in October. 

 Northern Queensland: Cairns; one female in Coll. Lyell. 

 Queensland: Stradbroke Island. 



AciDALiA HYPOCHRA, Meyr. 

 Acidalia axiotis, Meyr. 



I Jbave received specimens from Western Australia, which 

 differ in no way from those from Queensland. 



Northern Territory: Darwin. Northern Queensland: 

 Thursday Island, Cooktown, Cairns, Herberton, Townsville, 

 Ravenswood. Queensland: Duaringa, Gayndah, Nambour, 

 Brisbane, Stradbroke Island, Southport, Coolangatta, Rose- 

 wood. New South Wales: Sydney, Moruya. South Aus- 

 tralia : Mount Lofty. Western Australia : Perth, Mundaring, 

 York, Geraldton. Also from Norfolk Island. 



