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NOTES OS SOME UN'DESCRIBED AUSTRALIAN 



Fam.—LYCMmVM. 



Genus— PSEUDODIPSAS (Feld). 



P. Fumidus, n. sp. 



Dull smoky black, suffused with steel blue at base of wings. 



Uppeuside. — Primaries— Uniform smoky black, with an elongate 

 patch of steel blue, at the base below the cell. 



Secondaries — The same with a few specks of steel blue at base ; the 

 median branches, and sub-median terminating in produced bunches of hairs 

 tipped with white, between each of which is a submarginal line of pale blue, 

 above these a jet black spot surmounted with pale blue crescent ; the same 

 between the other nervules, but very indistinct. 



Underside — Light grey traversed by short transverse bands of pale 

 stone colour. 



Primaries — With the bands arranged in straight nearly parallel rows, 

 one near the base consisting of two parts, one across centre of cell of 

 three parts, one at end of cell of three parts not extending across wing; 

 towards and parallel with outer border a row stretching across wing, and a 

 sub-marginal one of very small bands. 



Secandaries — With the bands in curved irregular rows, making with 

 the marginal one — which is somewhat crenated — four, without counting 

 some basal spots. In the anal angle and between the two median branches 

 a round black spot nearly surrounded with orange band. 



¥ Upperside as in butVith somewhat less blue ; the black spots 

 and light blue crescents in outer margin of secondaries being continued to 

 apical angle. 



Underside as in <J 



Abdomen and thorax, upperside. black ; beneath light grey. 

 Exp.— $ 13 lines ; ? 13 J lines. Hab.— Brisbane. Coll. — Lucas. 



In this species the difference in contour of wings between the 

 sexes is strongly defined. 



Genus— LIPHYRA (Westw.) 



L. Brassolis (Westw). 



Proc. Ent. Soc. p. 31 (I864). 

 Sterosis. Robu&ta, Feld.—Relm, Nov. Lep. II. p. 219, n. 237, 

 t. 27, f. 10, 11 (1865). 



