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North Australia, Port Darwin (Dodd) ; three specimens. A 

 second species of this curious genus, in all respects congeneric 

 with the first, but apparently offering no help towards the deter- 

 mination of its true affinity, which remains (]uite uncertain. 



1/ PARAXENISTIS, n. g. 



Head with dense appressed scales, on face forming a more 

 or less developed wedgeshaped projecting tuft ; ocelli posterior ; 

 tongue developed. Antenna? |, in J simple, basal joint moderate, 

 with anterior projection of scales from base. Labial palpi long or 

 very long, straight, porrected, much thickened with dense loosely 

 appressed hairscales, attenuated anteriorly, terminal joint concealed 

 in long scales of second. Maxillar}^ palpi short, filiform, porrected. 

 Posterior tibias smooth-scaled. Forewings 1 b furcate, 2 from 

 angle, 2 5 rather approximated, 7 to termen, 11 from before 

 middle. Hindwings |, narrowly trapezoidal-ovate, cilia It ; 2 very 

 short, 2-4 remote, parallel, 5 and 6 nearly approximated towards 

 base, 7 tolerably parallel. 



Type rnacrostomd Meyr. Nearly allied to Plutella, from which 

 it differs by the peculiar palpi. To this genus is also referable 

 2->entanIa Meyr., described as a Plutella owing to injury of the palpi 

 of the original examples; I have since obtained further material, 

 I judge the antennte in repose to be porrected as in Plutella. 



Paraxenistis macrostoma, n. sp. 



cJ . 11 ram. Head, palpi, thorax greyish-ochreous, two minute 

 blackish dots behind eyes and one in front ; palpi 5, a minute 

 ))lackish dot at base and four or five towards middle, tip dark grey. 

 Antenna) whitish-grey, apical third blackish with two wiiitish rings. 

 Abdomen light grey, Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, 

 slightly bent in middle, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; 

 whitish-grey, with some scattered dark fuscous scales on basal area, 

 greyer and violet-tinged in disc posteriorly ; a grey spot marked 

 with several minute black dots on costa at | ; a dark grey transverse 

 triangular spot from middle of dorsum reaching half across wing, 

 outlined with whitish and within this partially edged blackish ; 

 a round brownish-tinged spot marked on edge with several small 

 blackish dots and outlined anteriorly with white near termen 

 beneath apex ; some brownish tinge above this, and some white 

 irroration along termen : cilia light grey sprinkled Avhitish, with 

 two brownish shades, outer sprinkled black, Hindwings dark grey ; 

 cilia grey. 



S. India, Coimbatore, February (FlefcJier) • one specimen, 



Paraxenistis sphenospila, n, sp. 



cJ § . 8 mm. Head, palpi, thorax white slightly sprinkled light 

 brownish, palpi 3. Antenna? grey with indistinct whitish rings at 

 middle and |, Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, costa gently 

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