188 STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN MICROLEPIDOPTERA, 



Parectopa TRAPEZOIDES. 

 Correctly referred to this genus ; the posterior tibiae are smooth. 

 N.Q. : Kuranda, near Cairns. 



Parectopa Formosa. 

 Q. : Brisbane, and Stradbroke Island, from August to April, pro- 

 bably throughout the year; Mt. Tambourine, in November and 

 January; Toowoomba, in September. 



Parectopa polyplaca. 



I have gone fully into the distinctions between this and the next 

 species, in Trans. R. Soc. S. Australia, 1900, p. 20. 



Q. : Maroochydore, near Caloundra, in August; Brisbane, in 

 August, September, October, and April; Mount Tambourine, in 

 March; Coolangatta, in May. The Duaringa locality requires 

 confirmation. 



Parectopa ida. 

 N.Q. : Cairns, in June; Herberton, in February. — Q. : Brisbane, 

 in July, August, and April; Toowoomba, in September. 



PARECTOPA CHALCEOPLA, n.sp. [xaAK€07rAo9, with brazen armour]. 

 <£, 9 mm. Head and thorax brassy-white ; face and palpi white. 

 Antennae grey-whitish. [Abdomen broken]. Legs white, with pale 

 fuscous annulations. Forewings white, with brilliant brassy reflec- 

 tions; a rather broad grey streak on dorsum from J to middle; a 

 broad pale brownish fascia from | costa to tornus; a large oval 

 blackish apical spot; cilia whitish, with a narrow fuscous bar at 

 apex, on dorsum grey. Hindwings and cilia grey. Type in Coll. 

 Turner. 



N.Q. : Kuranda, near Cairns; one specimen, received from Mr. 

 F. P. Dodd. 



Parectopa thiosema, n.sp. [^eioo-^/zos, sulphur-marked]. 



g. 8 mm. Head ochreous-f uscous ; face pale yellowish. Palpi 



whitish, apices fuscous. Antennae fuscous, towards base whitish. 



Thorax and abdomen oehreous-fuscous. Legs ochreous-f uscous ; 



posterior pair whitish; all tarsi whitish, with fine fuscous annula- 



