BY E. MEYRICK. 315 



93. S. cosmodes, Low. 



(Gelechia cosmodes, Low., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1899, 

 98.) 



g. 13 mm. Head ochreous-white. Palpi white, second and 

 terminal joints with dark fuscous subbasal and subapical bands. 

 Antennae ochreous-white ringed with dark fuscous. Thorax 

 ochreous-whitish sprinkled with fuscous. Abdomen whitish- 

 ochreous. Legs ochreous-white, banded with dark fuscous. 

 Fore wings pale yellow-ochreous, suffused ly mixed with fuscous 

 except towards dorsum between l and tornus; three white fasciae, 

 becoming silvery-metallic on lower half, first from costa at J, 

 outwardly oblique, partially confluent with a silvery-white patch 

 on fold preceding it, second median, vertical, third from costa at 

 |, inwardly oblique, interrupted in middle : cilia whitish, partially 

 tinged with ochreous and sprinkled with brown. Hindwings 

 whitish-grey; cilia pale whitish-ochreous. 



Broken Hill, Kew South Wales, from September to November; 

 one specimen received from Mr. Lower. 



20. Phthorimaea, Meyr. 



Antennae i, in g simple, basal joint elongate, without pecten. 

 Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint expanded with rough 

 projecting scales beneath, terminal joint as long as second, acute. 

 Forewings : 2 and 3 parallel, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa. Hind- 

 wings 1, trapezoidal, apex produced, acute, termen bisinuate, 

 cilia 1|; in (J with long pencil of hairs lying along costa from 

 base beneath forewings; 3 and 4 connate, 5 somewhat approxi- 

 mated to 4, 6 and 7. remote, nearly parallel. 



A North American genus of several species, of which one has 

 been artificially introduced with its foodplant into widely separated 

 regions; it is a derivative of Gno7'imoschema. Imago with fore- 

 wings elongate, pointed. 



