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N.Q.: Mourilyan Harbour, near Innisfail, in June. 8 — Q.: Strad- 

 broke Island, commonly taken in November and April. 



EPICEPHALA XEPHELODKS, n.Sp. [rec/>€Ato6>/s, cloudy]. 



o^. 9-10mm. Head whitish-ochreous; face and palpi white: 

 outer surface of labial palpi whitish-grey. Thorax and abdomen 

 grey. Legs white, with blackish annulations. Forewings grey 

 without ochreous tinge ; markings white, rather indistinct ; an 

 irregularly outlined streak along dorsum ; short oblique costal 

 streaks at J, |, and §; a double outwardly oblique streak from 

 tornus; a transverse silvery line from £ costa to tornus; followed 

 by a round blackish dot; a white spot on tornus; a dark fuscous 

 line around apical part of costa and termen; cilia white, apices 

 fuscous opposite apex, on dorsum grey. Hindwings and cilia 

 grey. 



Distinguished by the ochreous-tinged crown, the absence of 

 ochreous tinge in forewings, the blackish annulations on the legs, 

 and the absence of dark markings on hindwings of (J. Type in 

 Coll. Turner. 



N.Q.: Kuranda, near Cairns, in June and September; three 

 specimens. 



Gen. Acrocercops. 



Acrocercops Wallengren, Ent. Tidskr., ii., p. 95(1881). 



Conopomorpha Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst,, 1885, p. 183. ^ ;: 



A large genus universally distributed. 



Acrocercops mendosa. 

 Meyr., Gen. Insect., Gracilariadee, p. 16. 

 N.Q.: Kuranda, near Cairns; in October(Dodd ). 



Acrocercops hierocosma. 

 Meyr., Gen. Insect., Gracilariada?, p. 18. 

 N.A.: Port Darwin (Dodd). 



Acrocercops ordinatella. 

 N.Q.: Kuranda, near Cairns. — Q.: Gympie, in April; Nambour, 

 in November ; Mt. Tambourine, in November and February ; 

 Burpengary, near Brisbane, in May. A number bred from larvae 

 mining the leaves of Litsea dealbata. 



