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beneath ; anterior legs suffused with dark fuscous, posterior tibiae with a 

 small blackish apical spot above. Abdomen light yellowish, on sides and 

 beneath silvery-white. Forewings narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; silvery- 

 whitish, faintly ochreous-tinged ; extreme costal edge dark grey on basal 

 half ; ciUa ochreous-whitish. Hindwings grey-whitish ; cilia whitish. 

 Undersurface of forewings suffused with dark grey. 

 1 specimen, taken in July. 



Gracilariad^. 

 Gracilaria octopunctata, Turn. 

 6 specimens. India, Australia. 



Plutellid^. 

 Glyphipteryx scolias, n. sp. 



? . 8 mm. Head and thorax light greyish - bronze. Palpi with four 

 whorls of blackish white-tipped scales, without tuft. Antennae bronzy- 

 fuscous. (Abdomen broken.) Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, 

 apex acute, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; 7 and 8 stalked ; greyish- 

 bronze ; six whitish costal streaks edged anteriorly with dark-fuscous 

 suffusion, first from middle, oblique, reaching half across wing, second at |, 

 equally long, less oblique, third short, cloudy, and less defined, remaining 

 three short, direct, close together before apex ; an irregularly sinuate slender 

 silvery-whitish oblique streak from dorsum before tornus, nearly reaching 

 apex of second costal ; a silvery-whitish dot on middle of termen ; a round 

 black apical dot ; cilia bronzy-whitish, with a black subbasal shade, inter- 

 rupted with whitish below apex, with a fine black line projecting from 

 interruption, above apex with a black hook, and with four fine black bars in 

 costal cilia between streaks. (Hindwings missing.) 



1 specimen. Denham Bay. Very nearly allied to G. iochecera from 

 New Zealand, but that species is larger, and has the praetornal streak straight, 

 and the terminal silvery- whitish dot replaced by a short streak. I have a 

 good series of it, and these characters are constant. 



Plutelia maculipennis, Curt. 



6 specimois. Quite cosmopolitan. Larva on cabbage, turnip, and 

 other Gruciferce. 



TlNEID^. 



Opogona aurisquamosa, Butl. 



2 specimens ; 21 others taken. Hawaiian and South Pacific isles. 

 Larva on sugar-cane and banana. 



Decadarchis fiavistriata, Wals. 



1 specimen ; 2 others taken. Hawaiian Isles. The example examined 

 differs from the description and figure of the single original type in having 

 a black dot representing plical stigma, and the streak at base of costal cilia 

 towards apex blackish. I do not think, however, that it can be separated 

 specifically. Hindwings with 5 and 6 stalked, 6 to costa. 



* Monopis ethelella, Newm. 



3 specimens. Australia, New Zealand, South Africa. A semi-domestic 

 species, of which the larva probably feeds on refuse. 



