184 STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN MICROLEPIDOPTERA, 



Q. : Coolangatta, in May ; several pupae, each under a slight web 

 on the upper sides of the leaves of a large trailing bean, at Point 

 Danger; two moths bred. The species attributed to Coolangatta, 

 belong equally to New South Wales and Queensland, the locality 

 being situated exactly on the artificial boundary line between 

 these States. 



ACROCERCOPS SPODOPHYLLA, n.sp. [(T7To8ocf)vWos, with ashen leaves 



(wings)]. 

 (j£. 7-8 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and abdomen grey- 

 whitish. Legs whitish; tarsi faintly annulated with pale grey. 

 Forewings grey-whitish; a white subapical fascia gradually dilat- 

 ing from costa to tornus; cilia grey- whitish. Hindwings and cilia 

 pale grey. Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q.: Kuranda, near Cairns, in June; five specimens. 



ACROCERCOPS MELANOMMATA, 11. Sp. [/i€Attl'0/x/xaT05, black-edged]. 



£Q. 7-8 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax white. Antennae grey. 

 Abdomen grey-whitish, with a dark fuscous penultimate ring. Legs 

 white ; tarsi with fuscous annulations. Forewings whitish or grey- 

 whitish; a suffused grey fascia from f costa to before tornus; a 

 large blackish subapical spot extending from costa to tornus, and a 

 smaller apical spot; cilia grey-whitish. Hindwing pale grey; cilia 

 whitish. 



Readily distinguished from the preceding, to which it is allied, 

 by the terminal blackish dots of forewings. Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q.: Cairns, Kuranda, and Atherton, in June and July; four 

 specimens. 



Gen. Phrixosceles. 



Phrixosceles, Meyr., Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, xviii., p. 

 814(1908) ; Gen. Insect., Gracilariadae, p. 13. 



1 regard this as a derivative of Cyphosticha, to which it is closely 

 akin, differing only in the bristly hairs on the middle tibiae. Mey- 

 rick enumerates five species, of which four are Indian, and one 

 (unknown to me) Australian. I add four new species, all minute 

 and delicate insects. 



