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poisers tawny. Length of the body 6 — 8f lines ; of the wings 

 12—16 lines. 



a. New South Wales. From Mr. Pamplin's collection. 



b. New Holland. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



c. New Holland. From Mr. Lambert's collection. 



Trichophthalma leucophaea, n. s. Fusca, subtus alba, thorace 

 fulvo univittato et albo bivittato, scutello utrinque albo, abdo- 

 minealbo bivittato, antennis fulvis, pedibus ferrugineis, tar sis pi - 

 ceis, alis cinereis, ad costam fuscis. 



Body rich brown, white beneath : head white, thickly clothed 

 beneath with white hairs ; eyes piceous, thickly clothed with white 

 down : sucker black, as long as the chest : feelers, hypostoma, and 

 palpi tawny ; the latter piceous at the tips : chest with a very slen- 

 der tawny stripe in the middle, and two broader white stripes 

 on each side ; the inner white stripes are somewhat widened in the 

 middle, whence two oblique bands of tawny hairs pass from them to 

 the outer stripes, and join a fringe of the same colour on each side 

 of the chest : a white semicircular band on each side of the scutch- 

 eon : breast thickly clothed with vyhite hairs : abdomen with two 

 white stripes, which are somewhat irregular in outline, and slightly 

 widened on the fore borders of the segments : legs ferruginous, 

 clothed with black hairs ; thighs also clothed with white hairs ; feet 

 piceous : wings gray, slightly brown in front on half the breadth 

 and on two-thirds of the length, whence to the tips the fore borders 

 only are brown ; wing-ribs and fore border veins ferruginous; the 

 other veins black ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 6 lines ; of 

 the wings 14 lines. 



a. Western Australia. From Mr. Clifton's collection. 



Trichophthalma degener, n. s., mas. Fusca, subtus alba, thorace 

 fulvo univittato et albo bivittato, abdomine albo bivittato, lateri- 

 busflavo-fuscis, aniennis fulvis piceo cinctis apice nigris, pedibus 

 ferrugineis, alis subcinereis. 



Body rich brown, white beneath : head white, thickly clothed 

 beneath with white hairs : eyes red, thickly clothed with white 

 down : sucker black, as long as three-fourths of the body ; palpi fer- 

 ruginous ; third joint piceous at the tip : feelers tawny ; third joint 

 piceous, short-conical ; bristle black : chest like that of H. leucophaa, 

 but having only a tuft of tawny hairs on each side ; scutcheon dark 

 ferruginous, with no white band : breast thickly clothed with white 

 hairs : abdomen yellowish brown on each side, and having on the 

 back two broad white stripes, which are more irregular than in the 

 preceding species, and diverge along the fore borders of the segments 



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