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Avith aijprcssed scales, terminal joint shorter, slender, acute. 

 Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Postciior 

 tibite clothed with hairs above. Forewings 1 6 furcate, 2 from 

 angle, 8 and 9 out of 7, 7 to apex, 11 from middle, Hindwings 1, 

 elongate-ovate, cilia | ; 3 and 4 connate, 5-7 nearly parallel. 

 Near Anchonoma, but earlier. 



Ancharclia ombromorpha, n. sp. 



c? . 15 mm. Head fuscous, face somewhat mixed whitish- 

 oclireous. Palpi pale ochreous sprinkled fuscous, terminal joint 

 suffused dark fuscous. Thorax dark fuscous, a posterior spot and 

 apical half of patagia ochreous-whitish. Eorewings el mgate, 

 termcn rounded, rather strongly oblique ; pale ochreous suifusedly 

 sprinkled fuscous and dark fuscous; four suffused dark fuscous 

 transverse fascite, first narx'ow, basal, second broad, anteinudian, 

 third broad, postmedian, somewhat oblique, fovirth subterminal, 

 broad opposite apex, narrower on costa and rapidly narrowed down- 

 wards : cilia pale ochreous. Hindwings grey ; cilia light grey, 

 darker towarda base. 



AVest Australia, C. N^aturaliste, December {Turner); 1 ex., 

 Wals. Call. (300282). Not in good order, but structurally distinct. 



v' ATOPOPHRICTIS, u. g. 

 Head with dense appressed hairs ; ocelli posterior ; tongue obsolete. 

 Antennae |, basal joint moderate, scaled, without pecten. Labial 

 palpi moderate, curved, subascending, slender, second joint with 

 appressed scales, terminal joint short, setiform. Maxillary palpi 

 rudimentary. All tibise and base of posterior tarsi clothed above 

 with very long rough erectly expanded and spreading huirscales. 

 Thorax with rough erect scales posteriorly, and some rough hair- 

 scales on patagia. Abdomen elongate, stout. Forewings with scales 

 somewhat roughened in disc anteriorly, but without tufts ; 2 froin 

 angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex, 11 from before middle. Hind- 

 wings 1, elongate-ovate', cilia nearly 1 ; 3 and 4 connate, 5 cui vx-d 

 and nearly approximated to 4 at base, 6 and 7 parallel. 



Atopophrictis xenosema, n. sp. 

 5 . 20 mm. Head, palpi ochreous-yellowish. Thorax black 

 mixed ochreous-yellowish. Abdomen ochreous irregularly sprinkled 

 dark fuscous, sides and two apical segments suffused dark fuscous. 

 Hairs of tibite whitish mixed dark fuscous. Porewings rather 

 narrow, costa almost straight, arched towards apex, termen very 

 obliquely rounded; pale yellow-ochreous, bases of all scales fuscous ; 

 an irregular narrow basal fascia of coarse blackish mixture ; a very 

 irregular and interrupted narrow transverse ochreous-whitish fascia 

 at I not reaching dorsum, surrounded with broad irregular suflusion 

 or irroration of coarse black scales confluent on dorsum with 

 preceding ; second discal stigma indicated by a faint cloudy darker 

 spot of ochreous and grey suflusion ; a slightly oblique moderate 



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