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Queensland : Stanthorpe, in October. New South Wales . 

 Armidale. Victoria : Melbourne, Beaconsfield. 



BOARMIA PANCONITA, Tum. 



Nearly allied to B. zascm. It is darker than the northern 

 examples of this species, from which it may be always dis- 

 tinguished by the lower part of the face being white, and by 

 the crescentic discal mark on the hind wing. [The female 

 example with wholly blackish face, which I formerly referred 

 to this species, is an example of zascia.^^ Tlie Gayndah 

 examples apparently represent a distinct local race. 



Queensland : Gayndah, Stanthorpe, in October. 



BOARMIA DESTINATARIA, Gn. 



Also allied to the two preceding species, and like them 

 variable, but readily .distinguished by the paler suffused 

 coloration more or less tinged with ochreous, and the absence 

 of any black on the face. 



Queensland: Stanthorpe, in October. New South Wales: 

 Ebor, Sydney, Katoomba. Tasmania. 



BOARMIA PISSINOPA, n. Sp. 



7no-crti/a)7ro5, black as pitch. 



(^ , 42 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax blackish. 

 Antennal pectinations in male 10, apical \ simple. 

 Abdomen on dorsum fuscous becoming blackish towards base ; 

 lower-surface, sides, and tuft grey-whitish. Legs fuscous; 

 posterior pair grey. Forewings triangular, costa nearly 

 straight, apex round-pointed, termen bowed, oblique, slightly 

 crenulate ; blackish ; markings intensely black ; a fine trans- 

 verse line from J costa, bent strongly inwards beneath costa, 

 and again bent to \ dorsum; a thicker obliqae shade from 

 mid-costa to dorsum before middle; a transverse, median, 

 subcostal discal mark ; a slightly dentate line from f costa, 

 strongly bent inwards to mid-dorsum; a faint, incomplete, 

 dentate subterminal line ; a fine terminal line ; cilia dark 

 fuscous. Hindwings with termen gently rounded, obtusely 

 dentate; as forewings but without first line, other lines trans- 

 verse, gently rounded. 



In colour this species resembles M elanodes anthracitaria y 

 Gn., and both are adapted for concealment on tree-trunks 

 blackened by fire. 



Western Australia: Perth, in October; one specimen. 



BOARMIA MACULATA, LuC. 



Queensland: National Park (3,000 ft.), in March; a 

 series taken at light. These agree with two examples from 



