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termen slightly angled on vein 4; as forewings but discal 

 spot at J and larger. 



New South Wales : Port Macquarie, in March, one speci- 

 men. Type in Coll. Lyell. 



Sterrha ooptera, n. sp. 



uiOTTTcpos, oval- winged. 



9 , 23 mm. Head whitish ; face grey. Palpi about 1 ; grey. 

 Antennae whitish-grey. Thorax and abdomen whitish-grey 

 with slight grey irroration. Legs ochreous-whitish irrorated 

 with grey; posterior tibiae with terminal spurs only. Fore- 

 wings elongate-oval, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen 

 bowed, strongly oblique; whitish-grey irrorated with dark 

 grey; a small, circular, fuscous, discal spot at f ; a fine, 

 interrupted, dark-grey line from costa just before apex to 

 I dorsum ; a similar terminal line ; cilia whitish with two lines 

 of grey irroration. Hindwings suboval, narrow, termen very 

 strongly rounded ; as forewings but discal spot median, and 

 posterior line strongly curved. 



A curious-looking species, more suggestive of the genus 

 Pylarge than Sterrha. 



Queensland : Gayndah ; one specimen received from Dr. 

 Hamilton Kenny. 



Sterrha euclasta, n. sp. 

 €VK\a(rTo<;, fragile. 



(S , 24-26 mm. Head brown; fillet broadly white; face 

 fuscous-brown. Palpi about 1, curved upwards, thickened 

 with rough scales, terminal joint short; whitish. Antennae 

 white; in male with fine short pectinations (J), ending in tufts 

 of long cilia (3). Thorax and abdomen ochreous-whitish. 

 Legs fuscous; posterior pair ochreous-whitish; posterior tibiae 

 of male with terminal spurs only, otherwise normal. Fore- 

 wings rather narrowly triangular, costa gently arched, apex 

 pointed, termen bowed, oblique; ochreous-whitish with slight 

 grey suffusion and a very few fuscous scales ; a minute fuscous 

 discal dot beneath mid-costa; a suffused, straight, grey line 

 from I costa to mid-dorsum ; a similar double subterminal line 

 from apex ; a third line close to terminal margin ; a series 

 of minute, interneural, fuscous, terminal dots; cilia ochreous- 

 whitish. Hindwings with termen rounded; ochreous-whitish; 

 a fuscous discal dot before middle; a straight grey line from 

 apex to f dorsum; a faint parallel line posterior to this; 

 terminal dots and cilia as forewings. 



New South Wales : Mount Kosciusko (3,500 to 5.000 ft.), 

 in January; three specimens, of which one is in Coll. Gold- 

 finch. 



