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posterior edge whitish. Abdomen pale fuscous, apices of 

 segments whitish-ochreous. Legs dark fuscous mixed with 

 whitish; posterior pair mostly whitish. Forewings elongate- 

 triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen obliquely 

 rounded; dark fuscous with a few brownish scales; a blackish 

 streak from base along fold to ^; a small circular oclneous spot, 

 representing orbicular, at ^, contained in a wedge-shaped blackish 

 streak with apex anteriorly; this streak is abruptly followed by 

 a wedge-shaped ochreous blotch, its apex at f and its posterior 

 «dge finely dentate; a terminal paler brownish-fuscous fascia 

 limited anteriorly by a wavy line; cilia brownish-fuscous with 

 obscure darker bars. Hindwings with termen rounded, slightly 

 wavy; fuscous; cilia whitish with a fuscous basal line not 

 reaching tornus. Underside of forewings fuscous; of hindwings 

 whitish with a central fuscous dot and apical fuscous blotch. 



Type in Coll Turner. 



v.: Birchip; in April; one specimen received from Mr. D. 

 Ooudie. 



Section Stictopterlnse. 



Gyrtona lophota,* n.sp. 

 (J. 22 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous-brown. Antenna3 

 dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. Legs fuscous-brown with 

 whitish annulations. Forewings elongate, posteriorly strongly 

 dilated, apex rounded, termen scarcely oblique, rounded beneath; 

 fuscous-brown irregularly mixed with whitish; a roundish dark 

 spot on base of costa; several transverse lines in basal ^, the last 

 being occupied by a very prominent ridge-like crest in disc; 

 median area lof disc suffused with whitish containing several 

 indistinct transverse lines, this suffusion prolonged to tornus 

 and lower part of termen; two closely parallel dentate fuscous- 

 brown lines at ^, succeeded by a similar single line; a dark apical 

 blotch traversed by a whitish dentate subterminal line; an inter- 

 rupted brown line close to termen; cilia brown-whitish. Hind- 

 wings with termen wavy; fuscous, towards base whitish; cilia 

 whitish with a fuscous basal line. 



* XocjjcoToi, crested. 



