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Hindwings with termen slightly rounded; grey, towards base whitish^ 

 peripheral veins outlined with fuscous; cilia as forewings. 



Agrees in structure with H. bi'achycei'a, Low, which I took at the 

 same time and place, but that species has the forewings darker, with 

 discal spot and transverse lines, and the abdomen has not a central 

 series of whitish marks. 



Q., Duaringa, Emerald, in March; one ^ from Mr. W. B. Barnard, 

 Clermont, in April; one $ from Mr. E. Q. J. Donnigan^ Charleville, 

 in September; six specimens at light, all of the same $ sex. N.S.W., 

 Brewarrina, one specimen received from Mr. W. W. Froggatt. 



^ 54 mm. Differs from ^ in lateral and posterior mar- 

 gins of thorax being suffused with whitish; a whitish suffusion 

 from base of forewing along dorsum, meeting a broadly suffused 

 whitish post-median fascia, acutely angled in middle posteriorly^ 

 containing a fuscous discal dot near its anterior margin; terminal 

 areas, with some whitish suffusion. 



Fam. URANIADAE. 



A few additions and corrections have to be made in my former 

 revision of this and the following families (Ann. Queensland Mus.^ 

 1911, p. 70). 



Alcidis zodiaca. 



Alciclis zodiaca, Butl., Ent. Mo. Mag., 1869, p. 273. 



Also from New Guinea. 



Gen. Stkophidia. 



Strophidia, Hb., Verz., p. 290, Hmps., Moths, Ind. iii. p. 113, 



Palpi moderately long, smooth, slender; terminal joint longer than 

 second. Antennae slender; in j* minutely ciliated. Forewings with 

 cell about ^ : 3 and 4 connate, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 and 9 stalked, 10 

 and 11 separate from cell. Hindwings with a short acute projection on 

 vein 4; cell about I; middle, 6 and 3 and 4 connate, 5 from above 

 middle, 6 and 7 separate. 



Type, S. fasciata, Cram. 



Strophidia fasciata. 



Geometra fasciata Cram., Pap. Exot. ii„ p. 12, pi. 104, f. D, 

 Phalaena candata, Fab., Ent. Syst. iii. (2), p. 163. 

 Mlcronia ohtusata, Gn, Lep. x., p. 25, PI. v. f.6. 

 Strophidia fasciata, Hmps., Moths, Ind., iii. p. 114. 



^ 60 mm., Head and thorax white. Palpi blackish above, white 

 beneath. Antennae grey, becoming white towards base; in ^ filiform,, 

 minutely ciliated. Abdomen grey- whitish. Legs whitish; internal 

 surface of anterior pair grey. Forewings broadly triangular, costa 

 strongly arched, apex acutely rectangular, termen straight, slightly 

 oblique; white; numerous black costal strigulae; nine straight fasciae, 

 consisting of two or more series of fine grey strigulae, except the ninth, 

 which is single; first four fasciae outwardly oblique, fifth transverse, 

 sixth and seventh convergent and fused before dorsum; eighth and 



