354 NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



of ^ evenly ciliated, with a pair of bristles on each joint. Thorax 

 and abdomen smooth, legs normal. Forewings of ^ with a large- 

 tuft of long hairs from cell on undersurface; areole absent, 7 free, 

 8, 9, 10 stalked. Hind wings of ^ with a hairy patch on under 

 side; 3 and 4 stalked, 5 straight from rather below middle of 

 cell. 



Type, S. 7nilichias Turner. 



Saroptila milichias,"^ n.sp. 



^. 26 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen whitish-brown. 

 Antennae whitish-brown; ciliations in ^ IJ, bristles 2^. Legs 

 whitish-brown. Forewings triangular, costa gently arched, apex 

 rectangular, termen bowed, slightly oblique; in g with a patch 

 of long hairs from under side of cell, more or less covered by 

 costal expansion of hindwing; whitish-brown; a white dot in 

 middle, and another at end of cell; a slight ferruginous sujBPusion 

 between second dot and tornus; cilia whitish. Hindwings in ^ 

 with a large costal expansion and truncate apex, a dense hairy 

 ridge from beyond middle of costa in a straight line nearly to 

 mid-termen; whitish-brown; costal half thinly scaled, whitish, 

 translucent; cilia whitish. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q.: Kuranda; in October; one specimen received from Mr.. 



F. P. Dodd. 



Saroptila megalosara,! n.sp. 



(J. 25 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, abdomen, and legs fuscous- 

 brown. Antennae ochreous-whitish with fuscous irrorations; in 

 ^ ciliations 1, bristles IJ. Forewings triangular, costa nearly 

 straight, towards apex wavy; apex acute, termen strongly bowed, 

 scarcely oblique; in g with a patch of very long hairs from cell 

 beneath; fuscous-brown tinged with ferruginous; a whitish dot 

 in middle, and another in end of cell; immediately above ther 

 latter a small ferruginous reniform spot; cilia fuscous-whitish^ 



* /j.eiXixt09, gentle. 

 t/xeyaXocrapoy, with large brashes. 



