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oceUata, Tep. [Ocellata, r Eepp. = excellens, Luc] Several 

 examples. Fairly common in Queensland, Northern and 

 North-western Australia. Mods alterna, Wlk. Two ex- 

 amples. Fairly common in Queensland, Northern and 

 North-western Australia. Polydesma submurina, Wlk. 

 Several examples. Also from Queensland and North-western 

 Australia. P. lawsoni, Feld. Several examples. Common 

 in Queensland. Also occurs in Western Australia. P. 

 aglossoides, Gn. Several examples. Occurs in New South 

 Wales and Queensland, and is more common inland. 

 I have it from Cunnamulla. P. ignipicta, Low. Several 

 examples. This may be only a form of the preceding. I have 

 it from Cunnamulla and Broken Hill. Da.sypodio selenophora, 

 Gn. One example. This is a Victorian species, but it evi- 

 dently spreads far inland, for I have received it from Cunna- 

 mulla, in Western Queensland. TatorJiynchus vinctaJis, Wlk. 

 Several examples. Common in Queensland. I have one from 

 Cunnamulla, and have seen one from Broome, North-western 

 Australia. 



LYMANTRIAD^E. 



Aprosita, n. gen. (a7rpocrn-os, unapproachable, isolated). 

 Head, thorax, and abdomen densely clothed with very 

 long hairs. Tongue absent. Palpi moderate, porrect, 

 also clothed with very long hairs. Femora and tibiae 

 long-haired; posterior tibiae without middle spurs. Fore- 

 wings without areole, 2 from §,■ 3 from well before 

 angle, 4 and 5 from near angle, 6 from near upper- 

 angle, 7 and 8 stalked from angle, 9 and 10 stalked from well 

 before angle, 11 from ^. Hindwings with frenulum strongly 

 developed; discocellulars acutely angled, dorsal portion of cell 

 forming a strong projection, from which 3, 4, and 5 arise 

 separately, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 widely separate from cell, with 

 which it is connected by a bar about middle, forming a large 

 precostal cell. A very interesting genus. The neuration is 

 altogether peculiar in this family, the stalking of 9 and 10, 

 and the large precostal cell of the hindwings recalling the 

 Latiocampidce. 



Aprosita ulothrix, n. sp. (ov\o6pi£, densely haired). 

 Male, 14 mm. Head dark-fuscous; face fuscous* 

 whitish with reddish-brown side-tufts. Palpi dark-fuscous. 

 Antennae fuscous; pectinations in male very long (15). 

 Abdomen dark-fuscous ; terminal segments covered with very 

 long fuscous-whitish hairs. Legs fuscous. Forewings broadly 

 triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen bowed, 

 oblique; fuscous-whitish, thinly covered with fuscous scales; 

 .two transverse dark-fuscous lines; first from ^ costa to 



