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and terminal fascia blackish; hindwings with oblique fascia 

 from J costa to mid-dorsum, and broad band from costa before 

 middle around apex and termen to tornus. 



Tasmania : Cradle Mo'untain (3,000-3,500 ft.), in January ; 

 four specimens received from Dr. R. J. Tillyard. 



Fam. OENOCHROMIDAE. 



Oenochroma lissoscia, n. sp. 



A.to-o-oo-/cto9, smoothly shaded. 



9 , 46-48 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax grey. Antennae 

 dark grey. Abdomen grey with a few blackish scales ; under- 

 surface reddish. Legs grey, partly reddish tinged; tarsi 

 fuscous. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa bisinuate, apex 

 acute, termen strongly bowed, becoming straight towards 

 tornus; grey with a few scattered blackish scales; some fine 

 fuscous-brown transverse strigulae from basal half of costa; a 

 fuscous-brown suffusion on costa from middle nearly to apex, 

 leaving costal edge for a short distance at about f whitish; 

 a fine blackish line from costa shortly before apex to f dorsum, 

 outwardly bowed in middle, towards dorsum preceded by a 

 fuscous-brown parallel line, costal half edged posteriorly by 

 whitish, which extends to apex; some grey-brown suffusion 

 on termen, preceded in middle by a suffused blackish spot; 

 cilia fuscous-brown. Hindwings with termen slightly rounded, 

 tornus prominent, rectangular ; as forewings but with blackish 

 line antemedian, straight, preceded by a fuscous-brown line, 

 which diverges somewhat towards costa; no subterminal spot. 

 Underside similar; but forewings with a blackish spot on 

 costa near apex, with two blackish dots on veins beneath it, 

 and no brownish suffusion ; disc purplish tinged with darker 

 median transverse line; hindwings with a purplish antemedian 

 fascia ; posteriorly to this brownish, with suffused reddish 

 subterminal spot between veins 3 and 4. 



Exceptional in the genus is that veins 10 and 11 of 

 forewings arise separately from the cell. 



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

 specimens taken at light. 



Oenochroma artia, n. sp. 



d/9Tto9, perfect. 



(S , 38 mm. Crown of head yellow with a dark-reddish 

 anterior line; face whitish. Palpi whitish with a few crimson 

 scales. Antennae brownish-ochreous ; pectinations in male 1|. 

 Thorax pale green; bases of patagia yellow; pectus whitish, 

 margin of eyes and forewings ochreous-yellow. Abdomen 

 whitish. Legs whitish irrorated with crimson. Forewings 



