108 XEAV AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



obscure in some specimens, from base to | ; three equidistant 

 blackish spots on middle of lower extremit}'' of streak; a larger 

 somewhat elongate spot, immediately beneath first of the three 

 spots; two minute spots at end of cell, somewhat crescentic; an 

 obscure outwards-curved row of black scales, from costa before 

 apex to anal angle, indented beneath costa; a very obscure row 

 of blackish hindmarginal dots : cilia ashy-grey-whitish, with a 

 fuscous median line. Hindwings greyish-ochreous; cilia ochreous. 



Broken Hill, N.S. W.; several specimens in October and Novem- 

 ber, mostly at light. 



Nephogenes melanthes, n.sp. 



(J. 16 mm. Head whitish. Thorax fuscous, patagia whitish. 

 Antennje and palpi fuscous-vvhitish, palpi internally and on sides 

 white. Legs fuscous, posterior pair yellowish. Abdomen greyish, 

 segmental margins ochreous-grey. Forewings elongate, moderate, 

 -costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen oblique ; fuscous, 

 suffusedly mixed with whitish in disc, markings of wing darker 

 fuscous : cilia greyish, with some dark fuscous scales at base. 

 Hindwings pale yellow, somewhat infuscated ; cilia yellowish, 

 terminal half greyish. 



Broken Hill, N.S.W.; common during October and November. 

 Allied to the preceding, but easily distinguished from that and 

 the other grey species by the yellow hindwings. 



Philobota habrodes, n.sp. 



^9. 12-17 mm. Head pale reddish. Palpi fuscous, internall}'- 

 and at base externally dull fleshy-pink, collar narrowly white. 

 Thorax brownish, patagia white posteriorl3^ Abdomen fuscous. 

 Antennre fuscous, obscurely annulated with whitish. Legs 

 fuscous, middle and posterior pair mixed with whitish; hairs of 

 posterior tibiaa mixed with dull reddish. Forewings rather 

 narrow, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin 

 obliquely rounded; fuscous; a short white fascia from base of 

 wing to middle of inner margin at ^, obscure in some specimens; 



