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evenly arched, apex pointed, termen almost straight, oblique ; grey 
sprinkled with whitish; fuscous spots more or less developed; some- 
times a large spot in cell; another large spot above two-thirds dorsum, 
usually connected by a series of smaller spots to beneath three-fifths 
costa; an oblique subterminal series of spots; cilia white. Hindwings 
with termen slightly rounded; grey in male; in female fuscous; cilia 
white. 
North Queensland: Cairns. Queensland: Brisbane; Injune, 
Milmerran. Victoria: Moe. 
50. Xyleutes liturata Don. 
Ins. N. Holl. p. 4, PI. 37, f. 1 ; Obthr. Lep. Comp, xi, f. 20-22. casuarinae 
H-Sch. Lep. Exot. f. 162. 
$ , 64-184 mm. $ , 180-200 mm. Head brownish. Palpi 1, porrect ; 
fuscous. Antennae grey -whitish or brown-whitish ; pectinations in male 
5 ; dark fuscous, apical two-fifths simple. Thorax brown with an inverted 
blackish U-mark and a slender whitish median longitudinal grey line. 
Abdomen brownish-fuscous; apices of segments and whole of terminal 
segments whitish or grey. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa slightly 
arched, apex round-pointed, termen slightly rounded, strongly oblique; 
whitish closely strigulated and near termen reticulated with blackish; 
markings blackish ; a stripe on middle of fold ; a spot beneath middle of 
cell; two longitudinal subcostal stripes at two-thirds more or less 
developed; an oblique subterminal series of elongate spots; cilia 
brownish. Hindwings with termen gently rounded; fuscous-brown; 
towards termen whitish in male ; and in both sexes reticulated with 
blackish; cilia whitish with fuscous or brownish bars. 
North Queensland : Cairns. Queensland : Brisbane ; Bunya Mts. ; 
Injune. New South Wales: Uki; Sydney. Victoria: Melbourne; Moe. 
Tasmania : Launceston ; Strahan ; Hobart. West Australia : Perth. 
51. Xyleutes durvillei H-Sch. 
Ausser. Schmet. f. 63 ; Obthr. Lep. Comp, xi, f . 58-60. eucalypti H-Sch. 
Ausser. Schmet. f. 163, 164. angasii Feld. PI. 81, f. 4. fuscus 
Swin. Cat. Oxf. Mus. i, p. 280. 
8 , 128-160 mm. ; $ , 170-210 mm. Head brown sprinkled with 
white ; face brown. Palpi 1 ; brown. Antennae brown-whitish ; pectina- 
tions in male 4, dark fuscous, apical third white. Thorax brown with 
an inverted blackish U-mark ; patagia and tegulae fuscous sprinkled with 
white. Abdomen brown or fuscous ; apices of segments white ; first seg- 
ment with a pair of white tufts. Forewings elongate, costa straight to 
three-fourths, thence arched, apex round-pointed, termen slightly 
rounded ; oblique ; brown, on termen and tornus grey, with numerous 
blackish strigulae ; a suffused white median stripe from base to middle ; 
a short white streak or spot in end of cell; sometimes a broad white 
oblique suffusion from apex to near middle of disc ; cilia brown, some- 
times with white bars. Hindwings with termen rounded; brown, 
strigulated with fuscous except towards base; cilia white with brown 
bars, on dorsum and tornus wholly white. 
Queensland : Toowoomba. New South Wales : Newcastle ; Sydney. 
