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Hah. — Queensland: Brisbane, in June, July, and 

 August ; Toowoomba, in September ; a winter species. 



Philobota mysticodes, n. sp. (/xva-riKojSr/s, mystical). 



9 , 14 mm. Head and palpi white. Antennae grey- 

 whitish. Thorax white, patagia and a large posterior spot 

 orange. Abdomen white, bases of segments on dorsum, except 

 of the first three, brownish-ochreous. Legs white. Forewings 

 rather broad, slightly dilated, costa arched in basal half, 

 thence straight, apex round-pointed, termen straight, oblique ; 

 sncw-white with bright-orange spots and dots ; a sub-basal 

 median spot with several minute dots between it and basal 

 part of costa ; a spot on dorsum at f ; a discal dot before 

 middle ; a large tornal spot produced narrowly half-way across 

 disc ; many minute dots, often not more than single scales, 

 in costal and terminal parts of disc ; cilia white irrorated 

 with orange. Hindwings and cilia white. 



Not like anything else. 



Hab. — Queensland: Brisbane, in January; one specimen. 



Philobota pandora, n. sp. (TravStopos, all-bounteous). 



6 , 9 t 30-32 mm. Head and thorax grey. Palpi grey, 

 slightly reddish-tinged, terminal joint fuscous, at base 

 whitish. Antennae grey; ciliations in male 4. Abdomen 

 ochreous-brown irrorated with whitish ; apices of segments 

 and tuft whitish ; under-surface grey. Legs, anterior pair 

 fuscous, reddish-tinged : middle pair grey, reddish-tinged ; 

 posterior pair whitish, reddish-tinged. Forewings elongate, 

 dilated posteriorly, costa moderately arched, apex round- 

 pointed, termen straight, rounded beneath, moderately 

 oblique : grey more or less suffused with red ; costal edge red ; 

 a terminal band bounded by a fuscous line from | costa very 

 obliquely outwards, then strongly rounded and bent down- 

 wards parallel to termen to tornus, whitish-red ; sometimes a 

 fuscous-reddish discal spot at ^, and another at | ; cilia grey, 

 toward apex of wing suffused with reddish. Hindwings grey- 

 whitish with slight reddish suffusion towards apex ; cilia 

 whitish, at apex of wing suffused with reddish-grey. Under- 

 side of forewings grey with a broad reddish streak around 

 costa and termen ; of hindwings grey-whitish with a reddish 

 suffusion at apex. 



Hab.— Tasmania: Cradle Mountain (3,000-3,500 feet), in 

 January : two specimens, received from Mr. R. J. Tillyard. 

 The first-fruits of the Central Tasmanian mountains. Of 

 these the female is in coll. Lyell. 



