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costa moderately arched, apex rounded, ternien nearly 

 straight, slightly oblique; whitish, mixed with brown and 

 fuscous; four irregular transverse leaden-metallic lines; an 

 ill-denned brown and fuscous median transverse fascia, its 

 posterior edge partly enclosing a whitish discal spot ; a 

 reddish-brown and fuscous line from f costa to termen below 

 middle, followed on costa by a whitish dot; a broad reddish- 

 brown and fuscous line around apex and along termen, 

 •enclosing a subapical whitish costal dot; cilia dark-fuscous, 

 on tornus mixed with whitish. Hindwings grey; cilia grey, 

 with a darker basal line. 



Hah. — Northern Queensland: Kuranda, in March; two 

 specimens received from F. P. Dodd. 



Laspeyresia hilaris, n. sp. (hilaris, g&y). 



9 , 13 mm. Head yellow, mixed with blackish. Palpi 

 2, ascending; yellow, base of external surface blackish. 

 Antennae dark-fuscous. Thorax dark-fuscous, towards mar- 

 gins mixed with yellow. Abdomen brown, apex fuscous. 

 X/Cgs whitish-ochreous ; tarsi annulated with fuscous. Fore- 

 wings dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex rounded- 

 rectangular, termen slightly rounded, slightly oblique; basal 

 half yellow, irrorated with blackish; a dark-fuscous line with 

 irregular edges from beneath midcosta to dorsum beyond 

 middle; beyond this ground-colour is dull-purple, with 

 dark-fuscous markings edged throughout with red, except for 

 four yellowish costal dots; two transverse series of spots, 

 partly confluent, not reaching costa, five costal strigulae and 

 a terminal line; cilia dark-fuscous with several reddish bars. 

 Hindwings dark-fuscous, partly suffused with pale-reddish ; 

 cilia pale-reddish, with a dark-fuscous basal line not extend- 

 ing to tornus. 



Hah. — Northern Queensland: Kuranda, near Cairns, in 

 October; one specimen received from F. P. Dodd. 



