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cell to about middle ; liindwings with very broad ochreous- 

 whitish median fascia, nearly half breadth of wing, not dis- 

 located at costal extremity towards tornus. 



This is the northern representative of s<}p\oj)h(^ just as 

 darwiniensis is that of don o van i. 



Hah. — Northern Queensland: Atherton, in May; Evelyn 

 Scrub, near Herberton, in October and January; three 

 specimens. 



4. Gren. Eutrichopidia, Hmps. 



Eyes hairy. Antennae about J; very slightly dilated 

 beyond middle: hooked at apex. Frons with truncat-e conical 

 prominence with raised rim at apex. Palpi rather long, 

 ascending; second joint with long dense rough hairs; t-erminal 

 joint long, smooth. Abdomen slightly hairy, not crested. 

 Posterior tibiae smooth. Neuration normal. 



latina, Don. 



5. Gen. Phalaenoides, Lew. 



Antennae about J ; slightly dilated beyond middle and 

 hooked at apex. Frons with a truncate conical prominence 

 with raised rim at apex. Palpi rather long, ascending; 

 second joint with long dense rough hairs; terminal joint long, 

 smooth. Abdomen moderately hairy. Posterior tibiae with 

 long rough hairs on dorsum. Neuration normal. 



f/lf/cinae, Lew. tristifica, Hb. 



Phalaenoides thoracophora, n. sp. 

 {6o)paKocliopo<s, wearing a breastplate). 

 9 , 50 mm. Head yellow, apex of frontal process and 

 an interrupted bar between antennae blackish. Palpi 

 yellow; upper and lower edge of second joint blackish; 

 terminal joint wholly blackish. Antennae blackish. Tliorax 

 [partly abraded] yellow with blackish spots; pectus yellow. 

 Abdomen fuscous; terminal segment and tuft yellow. Legs 

 blackish ; tibiae and femora partly whitish beneath ; those of 

 posterior pair wholly whitish beneath. Forewings triangular, 

 costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen bowed, oblique; 

 blackish with bluish and purple reflections ; a narrow whitish- 

 grey sub-basal fascia; median area whitish-grey, bounded 

 anteriorly by a line from J costa to ^ dorsum, posteriorly by 

 a line from J costa nearly to tornus, containing a blackish 

 line along costa, a large oval antemedian .spot, an incomplete 

 fascia from beneath midcosta, expanding on dorsum and con- 

 tinued to tornus; veins on posterior area grey; cilia blackish. 

 Hindwings with termen rounded, somewhat irregular; 

 blackish ; a large basal white blotch not extending to margins 

 nor extreme base ; cilia blackish, towards tornus apices white. 

 Underside blackish; forewnngs with a long oblique oval blotch 



