48 NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



cuneiform, blackish patch, edged with whitish, on costa before 

 middle, hardly reaching \ across wing, attenuated anteriorly; 

 costa between base and patch spotted with fuscous; an interrupted 

 series of about 10 fine elongate blackish spots, from costa at about 

 f, around hindmargin, and ending on anal angle, those on hind- 

 margin being placed on a much paler ground colour : cilia pale 

 fleshy-pink, with 3 darker lines throughout, basal thickest. 

 Hind wings with apex prominent; bright orange, posterior half of 

 wing dark fuscous, darkest at apex; cilia fuscous, paler on inner 

 margin. 



Brisbane, Queensland; one specimen, in December. 



G-ELECHIA (?) MESOLEUCA, 11. sp. 



9. 20 mm. Head and palpi white, terminal joint of palpi 

 blackish, second joint nearly smooth, not grooved. Antennae f . 

 black faintly annulated with white, basal -| blackish laterally. 

 Thorax blackish, with two broad whitish longitudinal stripes 

 throughout. Abdomen silvery-grey. Anterior and middle legs 

 blackish, strongly suffused with whitish, posterior pair whitish. 

 Fore wings narrow, elongate; costa hardly arched, apex pointed; 

 blackish; a broad white longitudinal median streak from base to 

 apex ; an elongate, somewhat indistinct, blackish spot before 

 middle, resting on lower half of ground colour; a well defined 

 black mark in white streak at § , nearer to costa than to inner 

 margin : cilia greyish, strongly mixed with blackish, and with a 

 sharply defined black apical streak, indicating continuance of 

 ground colour. Hind wings thinly scaled, with apex somewhat 

 pointed, hindmargin slightly sinuate beneath apex; pale fuscous, 

 darker round apex; cilia greyish, ochreous-tinged. 



Gisborne, Victoria; one specimen (Coll. Lyell), in April. 



Doubtfully referable to Gelechia; the palpi being somewhat 

 different in character. 



Gelechia tridecta, n.sp. 



fiQ. 14 mm. Head, thorax, palpi, antenna?, legs and abdomen 

 fleshy-ochreous, patagia with a fuscous anterior spot, palpi with 



