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taining more or less of pale ochreous, posterior half dark fuscous ; a 

 whitish spot over tornus; a white streak from J costa nearly to 

 tornus, broadening beneath; two fine white longitudinal streaks 

 beyond this; a white apical dot; cilia dark fuscous, on dorsum 

 grey. Hindwings and cilia grey. Type in Coll. Turner. 



Q.: Eumundi, near Nambour, in March; eight specimens, all 

 taken at one spot at one time. 



PHRIXOSCELES NIPHADIAS, n.Sp. [v«/>as, a snowflake]. 



(J^. 6-8 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax snow-white. Antennae grey, 

 towards base white. [Abdomen broken]. Legs white, with fuscous 

 annulations; middle and posterior tibiae and proximal tarsal joints 

 with long loose hairs on upper surface. Forewings snow-white, 

 with some fuscous irroration; apical area pale ochreous-fuscous, 

 sharply denned anteriorly; bounded by an inwardly oblique line 

 from costa near apex to midtermen; cilia fuscous, on dorsum 

 grey. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Allied rather closely to the preceding. Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q.: Cairns, in October; three specimens. 



Gen. Cyphosticha. 



A small genus, so far as known. Meyrick enumerates one species 

 from Ceylon, and two from Australia, to which I am able to add 

 three more. 



Cyphosticha albomarginata. 

 Q.: Brisbane, in March; one specimen, corresponding accurately 

 with Stainton's description, and certainly referable to this genus. 

 The middle tibiae and first two tarsal joints are thickened with 

 scales throughout. 



Cyphosticha pandoxa, n.sp. [7ravSo£os, all-glorious]. 



<|). 10 mm. Head yellow; face and palpi white. Antennae grey. 

 Thorax brown-purple, with a large yellow central spot. Abdomen 

 grey; undersurface white. Legs whitish-ochreous ; tarsi with fus- 

 cous annulations; middle tibiae and first two tarsal joints much 



