BY E. MEYRICK. 1151 



13. Tax. fhilodora^ n.sp. 



(J. 20 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, forehead more whitish, 

 face dark ferruginous-fuscous. Palpi 2, dark ferruginous-fuscous, 

 towards base white. Antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs whitish- 

 ochreous. Forewings triangular, hindmargin oblique, straight 

 above, rounded beneath ; 1 2 connected by bar with 1 1 ; whitish- 

 ochreous, irrorated with yellowish-ochreous in disc ; a straight 

 thick blackish line from beyond \ of costa to beyond \ of inner 

 margin, interrupted immediately beneath costa, preceded except 

 on costa by a brownish suffusion ; a thick blackish inwards-curved 

 and twice sinuate line from hindmargin below apex to inner margin 

 at J, followed by a brownish suffusion, and interrupted near upper 

 extremity by a straight cloudy whitish subterminal shade running 

 from near costa to anal angle \ space between this and hindmargin 

 marked with fine dark fuscous strigulse and scattered black scales : 

 cilia whitish-ochreous mixed with dark fuscous (imperfect). Hind- 

 wings with hindmargin rounded ; whitish-ochreous, fuscous-tinged, 

 with scattered dark fuscous scales ; three parallel cloudy dark 

 fuscous lines starting from lower third of inner margin but not 

 reaching far across wing j cilia whitish mixed with fuscous 

 (imperfect). 



Carnarvon, West Australia ; one specimen in October. Excep- 

 tionally distinct. 



2. Darantasia, Walk. 



Face with projecting cone of scales. Tongue developed. Antennae 

 in (J shortly bipectinated almost to apex, pectinations terminating 

 in pencils of cilia. Palpi rather long, porrected, rough-scaled. 

 Forewings with vein 10 anastomosing with 9, 11 anastomosing 

 strongly with 10 before 9, 12 connected by bar with 11. Hind 

 wings with veins 6 and 7 stalked. 



Nearly related to Nearcha^ and doubtless a development of it ; 

 contains only the one species, which in superficial appearance 

 shows some reversionary tendency towards Dich/rortiodes, 



