318 EXOTIC MTCROLEPIDOPTEUA. 



COSMOPTERYGIDyE. 



Labdia hastifera, n. sp. 



d' $ . 11 mm. Head ocbreous-white, crown sometimes centrally 

 tinged pale greyish-oehreous. Pulpi white, second joint pale groy 

 except apex. Antenna* white ringed dark fuscous. Thorax 

 fuscous, a broad ochrcous-white dorsal stripe. Alxlomen grey, 

 ovipositor of 2 long. Forewings lanceolate ; 5 separate ; fuscous- 

 grey, with slight violet gloss; a slender ochreous-white dorsal 

 streak from base to tornus : cilia light grey, beneath tornus mixed 

 ochreous-white at base. Hindwings bluish-grey ; cilia light grey. 



Fui, Lautoka, April to June ( Veitch) ; four specimens. Type in 

 British Museum. 



Pyroderces deudrophaga, n. sp. 



d 2- 9-10 mm. Head whitish-rosy or pale red-brownish, face 

 white. Palpi white, second joint with two, ternnnal joint thn^e 

 blackish-grey rings. Antennae white ringed blackish, towards 

 apex three dark grey bauds. Thorax pinkish-fuscous, sometimes 

 mixed white. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish. Forewings 

 narrowly elongate-lanceolate, apex produced, acute ; pinkish- 

 fuscous ; markings white, partially and irregularly edged scattered 

 black scales ; sometimes some white suffusion towards base ; a very 

 irregular oblique suffused fascia at 5, containing a black dot near 

 costa, and preceded by some black irroration on fold ; a transverse 

 irregular suffused median fascia, containing an irregular black 

 mark below fold ; a very inwards-oblique streak from costa 

 towards apex, in one specimen extended to pruceding ; an irregular 

 line along termen, marked with black apical strigula ; cilia light 

 red-brownish, with two black apical hooks, towards toruus gre}-. 

 Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Queensland, Brisbane, bred in October from Xnnthorrhoea 

 arhorea {Liliacene) (Dodd) ; four specimens. Tyj)e in Wals. Coll. 

 (24020). Very similar to the common terminella, but smaller 

 (termiaella 1 1-13 mm.), darker, less distinctly and rather differently 

 marked, head more broAvnish or rosy (terminella whitish) ; and in 

 termiaeUa 6 there is on upper surface of hindwings a short 

 expansible hairpencil of greyish-oehreous hairs becoming blackish 

 on apical half lying in a median groove from base and extending 

 to I of wing (not previously noticed), which is not found in the 

 present species. Probably the larva feeds in dry refuse and seeds, 

 as usual in the genus. 



' ULOCHORA, n. g. 



Head smooth; ocelli posterior; tongue developed. Antenna) 

 |, basal joint elongate, without jjecten. Labial palpi long, slender, 

 recurved, smooth-scaled, terminal joint as long as secojid or longer, 



