wing ; a violet-white dot on ooata at A : cilia bronzy-fuscous, with 

 dark fuscous subbasal and median lines, with two white basal dots 

 beneath apex, outer half pale yellowish round apex, outer third 

 yellow-whitish towards tornns. Hindu ings and cilia dark fuscous. 

 Queensland, Cairns, in November (Dodd); one specimen. Dis- 

 tinguishalde from the followinji; by the dorsal yellow irroration, and 

 the light yellow patch in apical cilia extending above apex, whereas 

 in leucotona there is a white patch below apex only. 



Callicerastis leucotona, n. sp. 



6 ?. 10-11 mm. Head and thorax deep shining bronze or 

 dark fuscous. Palpi whitish, second joint with a dark grey streak, 

 terminal joint externally dark grey except edges. Abdomen dark 

 grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex 

 obtuse-pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded : dark coppery- 

 fuscous ; a fine very oblique white strigula from middle of costa, 

 tipped with pale metallic-blue ; a whitish dot near dorsum towards 

 base ; a fine oblique white streak from middle of dorsum to some 

 palo metallic-blue scales above fold ; a small snow-white spot on 

 costa towards apex ; two white linear dots on termen beneath ajiex : 

 cilia pnrplish-grey, basal half dark fuscous, with a white spot on 

 costal spot, and a white subapical patch, towards tornus suffused 

 with white with a grey median shade. Hindwings and cilia dark 

 grey. 



Queensland, Cairns, in November (Dodd); four specimens. 

 Having received by tlie kiiulness of T\rr. Lower a specimen of bis 

 ci/anosfic((f, described with doubt as a Cosmopten/x {Trans, lioj. Soc. 

 S. Austr. 1010, 543), I am able to state that it also is referable to 

 CcdUcerastis. 



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BRACHYDOXA, n. g. 



Head loosely rough-hairod ; ocelli posterior ; tongue absent. 

 Antennae i, in S simple, basal joint short, with slight pecten. 

 Labial palpi moderate, porrected, loosely scaled, second joint witli 

 several lateral projecting bristles, terminal joint somewhat longer 

 than second, hardly pointed. Maxillary palpi long, several-jointed, 

 folded, filiform. Posterior tibife smootb-scalcd. Forewings with 

 2 from angle, 3 absent, 6 absent, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 9 

 absent, 11 from before middle. Hindwings |, lanceolate, cilia 1|; 

 4 absent, cell open between 3 and 5, 5 and 6 short-stalked, 7 

 ai)proxiLnated. 



Apparently beb)nging to the Tinea group, but remarkable for the 

 sliort antennae. 



Bracliydoxa syntrocha, n. sp. 



S . 7 nun. Head and thorax light greyish-ochreous. Palpi 

 dark grey, apex ocbreous-whitish. Abdomen dark grey. Fore- 

 wings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse- 

 pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; light greyish-ochreous 



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