GRVCILARTADiT;. 295 



loosely scaled anteriorly, white, second joint fuscous except apex, 

 terminal joint with two oblique fuscous bars. Thorax light fuscous. 

 Abdomen grey, beneath white, lateral series of oblique dark 

 fuscous bars. Forewings very narrow, parallel-sided, short- 

 pointed, apex rather obtuse ; light greyish-ochreous ; white 

 markings edged dark fuscous as follows, viz., a narrow irregular 

 transverse fascia at | and spot on dorsum before it, a wedgeshaped 

 oblique streak from middle of dorsum, a quadrate spot on costa 

 beyond middle whence a Jiarrow irregular fascia runs to dorsum 

 before tornus, a transverse line, acutely angulated in middle, 

 crossing wing at |, a dot on termen beyond this preceded by a 

 black dot, a curved transverse line before apex, silvery-leaden in 

 middle, and a dot above a round black apical spot ; two rather 

 oblique transverse thick blackish streaks from costa before middle, 

 one at |, one at |^, and a mark from dorsum beyond middle ending 

 in a dash on fold : cilia light grey, round apex basal blue-leaden 

 and median blackish lines. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia 

 grey. 



Queensland, Brisbane, February (Dodd) ; three specimens. 

 Typo in Wals. Coll. (19423). 



Acrocercops crucigera, n. sp. 

 $. 10-11 mm. Head grey, face whitish. Palpi roughly scaled 

 anteriorly throughout, white, median band of second joint and 

 basal band of terminal dark grey, variable in development. Thorax 

 grey, posteriorly more or less suffused whitish. Abdomen grey, 

 beneath white, lateral series of oblique fuscous bars. Forewings 

 narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; white : a blackish blotch occupying 

 costal half of wing from base to middle, cut by a fine white trans- 

 verse strigula near base and including in its posterior portion an 

 irregular longitudinal white streak ; a blackish spot on dorsum at 

 ^, space between this and base tinged pale ochreous but including 

 an oblique transverse clear white mark ; beyond this two trans- 

 verse blackish striguhie from dorsum, space between them tinged 

 pale ochreous ; a triangular blackish spot on dorsum beyond 

 middle, margined anteriorly by an ochreous- white streak edged by 

 a fine black line terminating in a small spot in disc ; above this an 

 X-shaped mark formed by two fine blackish lines from costa 

 crossiug one another ; disc of wing on apical f light ochreous, its 

 anterior portion occupied by an ol)lique blotch of grey suffusion, in 

 posterior portion an oblique blue-leaden striga, costal white portion 

 above this area crossed by six rather converging black strigulse ; a 

 round dark grey apical spot; a blue-loaden dot on termen beneath 

 apex : cilia round apex and termen whitish, base blue-leaden, sub- 

 basal and median dark fuscous lines and obli(|ue dark fuscous bars 

 on apical half, beneath tornus light grey. Hindwings grey ; cilia 

 light grey. 



Queensland, Brisbane, October (Dodd) ; two specimens. Type 

 in Wals. Coll. (7870). 



