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lines, and an aj)ical band and subapical ring whitish. Thorax 

 fuscous, with five longitudinal whitish lines. Legs dark fuscous, 

 obliquely ringed with wkite. Forewings fuscous; a white sul)- 

 costal line from base of costa to ^; median and subdorsal white 

 lines from base to fascia; dorsum narrowly white on basal ^; a 

 white costal streak from | to |; a moderate yellow postmedian 

 fascia, margined by narrow silvery-metallic fascite, first interrupted 

 in middle and followed by a black riot above middle, second bent 

 inwards in middle and preceded on costa by a fuscous spot; a 

 yellow patch immediately following second fascia, whence pro- 

 ceeds a white terminal streak to apex : cilia fuscous-whitish^ 

 white on costa except towards apex, with a white apical bar. 

 Hindwings pale grey; cilia grey-whitish. 



Brisbane, Queensland; one specimen (Mr. G. Barnard). 



1-5. Pyroderces, Zell. 



Antennae 4, in ^ minutely ciliated. Labial palpi very long, 

 recurved, smooth or slightly rough beneath, terminal joint longer 

 than second, acute. Thorax in ^ sometimes with long expansible 

 lateral hair-pencil from beneath hindwings. Posterior tibia? 

 rough-haired. Forewings in ^ sometimes with expansible pencil 

 of long hairs from dorsum towards base beneath; lb furcate, 

 5 sometimes out of 7, 6 out of 7, 7 to costa, 8 out of 7, 9 some- 

 times out of 7. Hindwings -§-4, narrow-lanceolate or linear- 

 lanceolate, cilia 3-7 ; 6 and 7 sometimes stalked, seldom coincident. 



The variations in the scaling of the palpi, certain points of 

 neuration, and the presence or absence of expansible hair-pencils 

 on the forewings or thorax of the (J, which occur in some species . 

 of this genus, seem from an extended study of a number of forms 

 to be here insuificient for generic subdivision, (the same being the 

 case in the allied genera Elachista and Limnoecia), and I have 

 therefore sunk as synonyms of this genus Staymntophora, HS., 

 Lahdla, Walk., and Proterocosma, Meyr. The genus is widely 

 distributed, especially in warm regions. Imago with forewings 

 lanceolate; during life the eyes are often crimson. 

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