340 KXOTIC llICROT.EPTDOrTKEA. 



Polychrosis fetialis, n. sj). 



J. 10 ram. Head, thorax brownish, sprinkled wliitish, thorax 

 transversely barred darker. Palpi whitish-fuscous, second joint 

 sprinkled dark fuscous. Forewini^s dilated, costa straiglit, wiih 

 gUxndular scaled swelling beyond middle, tormen obliquely rounded ; 

 pale brownish, somewhat mixed whitish, costa and dorsum strigu- 

 latod dark fuscous irroration ; basal patch brown sprinkled 

 blackish, extending to g, edge obtusely angulated in middle ; central 

 fascia postmedian, nearly direct, rather broad, suffused brown, 

 irregularly marked or sprinkled dark fuscous ; a brownish 

 apical spot surrounded with whitish ; a faintly darker erect 

 suboval blotch from termen below middle, with three or four 

 strigulae of dark fuscous irroration: cilia whitish-brown, a brown 

 basal line. Hindwings subtriangular, light grey ; cilia whitish- 

 grey. 



Bkngat,, Pusa, bred in January from larva on flowers of Leiicas 

 (Lahiatce) {Fletcher) ; 1 ex. 



Polychrosis transtrifera, n. sp. 



2 . 11 mm. Head, palpi, thorax brownish-ochreous. Forewings 

 elongate-triangular, costa almost straight, termen rounded, rather 

 oblique ; brownish-ochreous, largely covered by irregular anas- 

 tomosing ochreous-whitish transverse striae rising from pairs of 

 whitish costal strigula?, between these with dark fuscous irroration 

 forming irregular strigulas ; markings brown sprinkled blackish 

 on edges ; central fascia rather narrow, little oblique, narrowed on 

 costa, posterior edge with long abrupt evenly broad subtruncate 

 projection just below middle ; asubquadrate praetornal spot ; three 

 spots on costa posteriorly and a round one at apex ; a nearly evenly 

 broad slightly curved fasciate blotch from beneath second of these 

 costal spots to termen below middle, pointed above : cilia light 

 brownish, with obscure bars of darker fuscous mixture. Hind- 

 wings grey, darker posteriorly ; cilia light grey, a darker subbasal 

 shade. 



Queensland, Brisbane, February (Dodd); 1 ex., AVals. Coll. 

 (19473). 



Polychrosis serangodes, n. sp. 



(5$. 12-13 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, sides of collar 

 fuscous. Palpi whitish, second joint sprinkled fuscous. Thorax 

 whitish mixed grey and dark fuscous. Forewings dilated, costa 

 slightly arched, termen nearly straight, obli(]ue : whitisli mixed 

 grey and dark fuscous ; basal ])atch grey mixed blackish, edge tinged 

 brownish, nearly straight; central fascia postmedian, almost direct, 

 rather broad, anterior half dark brown marked blackish, posterior 

 half dark grey marked with an irregular blackish spot in middle 

 and more or less ochreous-whitish suffusion above and below this ; 

 apical area be5'ond this suffused pale ochreous with faint rosy tinge, 

 a suboblique deep ochreous-brown blotch from below middle of 



