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and lateral margins narrowly pale-yellow. Abdomen fuscous, 

 lateral margins and tuft pale-ochreous, third to eighth seg- 

 ments brownish-ochreous with apices grey. Legs ochreous 

 with fuscous irroration. Forewings elongate, not dilated, 

 costa straight except near base, apex round-pointed, termen 

 straight, oblique ; dark-fuscous with yellow irroration and 

 spots ; two elongate spots on fold ; a subcostal spot at A and 

 another, rather larger and quadrangular, before § ; a sub- 

 apical costal dot extending into cilia ; several subterminal dots 

 between this and tornus ; cilia dark-fuscous, apices yellowish 

 except on tornus. Hindwings dark-grey ; cilia dark-grey, 

 apices yellowish tinged in apical part of wing, on costa pale- 

 yellowish. 



Hab. — New South Wales: Ebor, in January; one. 

 specimen. 



Philobota thermophanes, n. sp. 

 (#ep/xo<£tti'?79, warmly coloured). 



o , 9 : 16-18 mm. Head ochreous-yellow. Palpi dark- 

 fuscous ; second joint with apex and a spot on inner surface 

 whitish ; terminal joint whitish except anteriorly. Antennae 

 dark-fuscous; ciliations 2h. Thorax dark-fuscous. Abdomen 

 dark-fuscous. Legs yellowish mixed with dark-fuscous. 

 Forewings elongate, somewhat dilated posteriorly, costa 

 slightly arched, apex round-pointed, termen oblique, slightly 

 rounded ; dark-fuscous with whitish-ochreous spots : a large 

 squarish spot on dorsum near base not quite reaching costa ; 

 two triangular spots on costa before middle, and at | ; a 

 vertically elongate oblong spot on dorsum at §, its upper end 

 indented by a blackish discal spot ; one or two small suffused 

 spots near termen ; cilia dark-fuscous, in middle of termen 

 and beneath tornus pale-ochreous. Hindwings dark-fuscous ; 

 towards base orange-ochreous ; cilia dark-fuscous. 



Hab. — Queensland: Stannary Hills; Townsville, in 

 August and October : four specimens. 



Philobota mimetis, n. sp. (/xi/^tis, an imitator). 



c? , 9 5 11-14 mm. Head ochreous. Palpi fuscous, 

 anterior and inner surfaces of second joint partly whitish- 

 ochreous. Antennae fuscous; ciliations in male 2^. Thorax 

 dark-fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. Legs fuscous on dorsal, 

 whitish-ochreous on ventral surfaces. Forewings narrow - 

 elongate, costa nearly straight, apex acute, termen slightly 

 rounded, strongly oblique ; fuscous : a small basal fuscous 

 fascia produced along costa ; succeeding this a broad bright- 

 yellow fascia not quite reaching costa, suffused yellow spots 

 in middle of disc, on dorsum before tornus, on costa before 



