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and since the palpi and neuration also agree, it might be thought 

 to be really akin to them, but the hindwings considerably exceed 

 the forewings in breadth, and the antennae of male are quite 

 without ciliations ; the combination of these two prohibitive 

 characters seems to me conclusive. The structure of vein 2 of 

 the forewings, which is not widely remote from 3, removes the 

 species from the Xylorj^ctid group. It accords well with the 

 family characters of the Gelechiadce^ but is discordant in every 

 group of that family, and I am compelled to regard it as repre- 

 senting an early unspecialised branch; perhaps other allied forms 

 may be discovered in West Australia. 



274. T. alveola, Feld. 

 {Cryptolecliia alveola, Feld., Reis. Nov. pi. cxl., 35.) 

 $<^. 23-26 mm. Head orange. Palpi pale ochreous-orange, 

 base of second joint dark fuscous, terminal joint more or less 

 suffused with dark fuscous. Antennae blackish. Thorax pale 

 orange, darker anteriorly, with a curved antemedian band and a 

 posterior spot purple-blackish. Abdomen dark fuscous, segmental 

 margins and anal tuft orange. Legs dark fuscous ringed with 

 pale orange, posterior tibiae more or less wholly pale orange. 

 Forewings elongate, moderate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen almost straight, rather oblique; whitish-ochreous, more or 

 less orange-suffused at base and towards dorsum and termen; 

 four moderate irregular-edged purple-blackish fasciae, first sub- 

 basal, outer edge prominent in middle, second below middle 

 dilated and enclosing a spot of groundcolour, third running into 

 middle of fourth, and connected with dilation of second by a 

 narrow bar, fourth subterminal, enclosing a series of dots of 

 groundcolour in disc, and connected with termen below apex by 

 a bar : cilia whitish-orange, with dark fuscous spots on extremi- 

 ties of fourth fascia and a patch below apex. Hindwings dark 

 fuscous ; costa ochreous-yellowish ; a large ochreous-yellowish 

 tornal patch; cilia light ochreous-3'ellowish, with a dark fuscous 

 apical patch and smaller patch below middle. 



Geraldton, York, Perth, and Alban}^, West Australia; from 

 October to December, common; fourteen specimens. 



