BY E. MEYRICK. 313 



90. G. tnelanoptila^ Low. 



{Psoricoptera melanoptila, Low., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 1897, 272.) 



(J9. 11-12 mm. Head and thorax white, sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous. Palpi white, second joint irrorated with dark fuscous, 

 terminal joint with base and a subapical ring dark fuscous. 

 Antennae whitish. Abdomen ochreous-whitish, more ochreous 

 towards base. Legs dark fuscous ringed with whitish, hairs of 

 posterior tibise whitish. Forewings acutely pointed ; white, 

 irregularly irrorated with fuscous and a few dark fuscous scales; 

 five very undefined costal spots of dark fuscous irroration; a 

 blackish plical dot near base; stigmata blackish, sometimes little 

 marked, plical beneath first discal; a blackish dot above tornus; 

 minute dots of black scales on termen : cilia whitish, irrorated 

 with fuscous. Hind wings hardly 1, pale grey; cilia pale greyish- 

 ochreous. 



Broken Hill, New South Wales, in October, March, and April; 

 three specimens received from Mr. Lower. Said to frequent 

 Solanum esuriale. 



19. Stegasta, n.g. 



Antennae |, in ^ simple, basal joint moderately elongate, with- 

 out pecten. Labial palpi long, curved, ascending, second joint 

 thickened with scales, somewhat rough beneath, terminal joint 

 as long as second, acute. Forewings : 2 separate, tolerably 

 parallel, 3 and 4 stalked or connate, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa; 

 in (J beneath with a dense reflexed fold of submetallic scales 

 from anterior half of costa, covering an expansible pencil of long 

 hairs from base. Hindwings 1, elongate-trapezoidal, apex pointed, 

 produced, termen sinuate, cilia IJ; 3 and 4 connate, 5 somewhat 

 approximated to 4, 6 and 7 stalked or approximated. 



Type S. variana. ^ A distinct endemic genus, related generally 

 to Gelechia, but differing from all the family in the peculiar costal 

 fold of the forewings. Forewings elongate, tolerably acute. 



Head bronze 91. variana. 



Head whitish-ochreous, sides bronzy-tinged 92. allactis. 



Head ochreous-white 93, cosmodes. 



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