■NEPTICULID^. — COPROMORPniD.n:. 7 



Nepticula rusticula, n. sp. 



2 . 5 mm. Head orange. Antemiiie light grey, ej-ecaps oclireous- 

 whitish. Thorax fuscous mixed with dark fuscous. Abdomen 

 grey. Forewings laucoohite ; fuscous-grey irrorated with blacidsh : 

 cilia pale grey, basal half irrorated with blackish. Hindwings and 

 cilia light grey. 



Kanaka, Ganesh Gudi, in April {Maxwell) ; one specimen. 



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COPROMORPHID.E. 

 OSIDRYAS, n. g. 



I propose this name in place of Heterocrita Turn. (Meyr. MS.) 

 (191J3), preoccupied by Heterocrita Warr. (1901). 



Osidryas phyllodes, n. sp. 



$ . 16 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax brownish-fuscous, palpi 5. 

 Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa 

 moderately arched, apex tolerably pointed, termen slightly sinuate, 

 rather oblique ; brownish-fuscous, suffusedly irrorated with dark 

 grey, imlicating obscure strigulation ; small cloudy spots of darker 

 fuscous suffusion in disc before and beyond middle; a terminal 

 series of small blackish dots : cilia light grey. Hindwings light 

 grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 



Queensland, Herberton, in January (Dodd) ; one specimen. 

 Very similar to chersodes, but in that species the forewings have 

 costa less arched, apex obtuse, termen not sinuate, and well- 

 marked blackish antcmedian and postmedian dots, with some 

 whitish suffusion between them. 



^ SISYROXENA, u. g. 



Head clothed with dense loose scales, sidetufts roughly spreading; 

 ocelli small. Antennje under g, in J strongly lamellate, basal 

 joint stout, without pecten. (Palpi broken.) Thorax densely 

 scaled, with posterior crest, prosternum with dense rough scales. 

 Posterior femora densely hairy beneath, tibiae wholly clothed with 

 dense rough hairs, tarsi clothed with dense rough hairs above 

 throughout. Forewings with surface somewhat roughened Avith 

 scales : 16 rather short-furcate, cell shorter than g of wing, 2 from 

 near base, 3 and 4 stalked from angle, 5 approximated, 7 and 8 

 stalked, 7 to apex (indefinite), 9 absent. 10 approximated, 11 from 

 near base. Hindwings over 1, ovate, cilia J ; cell shorter than |- 

 of -wing, very narrow, 2 from beyond its middle, 3 and 4 short- 

 stalked from angle, 5 approximated, transverse vein between 4 and 

 5 very weak, from 5 to 6 extremely oblique inwards, 6 and 7 

 connate, basal and dorsal areas furnished with long hairs. 



Notwithstanding the loss of palpi, this genus is so distinct and 

 interesting that it calls for characterisation. 



