424 EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 



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Apatetris hexagramma, n. sp. 



cJ . 15 mm. Head, thorax white speckled fuscous. Palpi white, 

 second joint irrorated fuscoUvS, with rough apical tuft, terminal 

 joint about half second. Forewings white ; about six irregular 

 longitudinal slender streaks of fuscous irroration : cilia white 

 sprinkled dark fuscous, towards tornus whitish-ochreous. Hind- 

 wings termen rectangularly emarginato, apical projection j ; rather 

 dark grej' ; cilia pale greyish-ochrcous. 



QuiiENSLAND, Brisbane, October (Dodd); 1 ex., Wals. Coll. 

 (23922). 



Apatetris anisaula, n. sp. 



cJ . 15 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint light 

 fuscous except towards apex, with rough spreading hairs above and 

 beneath almost concealing terminal joint. Thorax white, tinged 

 pale ochreous dorsally, and on patagia except shoulders. Abdomen 

 pale ochreous, two basal segments deeper ochreous dorsally, anal 

 tuft large, whitish-ochreous. I'orewings elongate- lanceolate, apex 

 somewhat produced, acute; 7 and 8 out of 6; light glossy brownish- 

 ochreous, becoming pale yellow-ochreous towards dorsum ; a broad 

 shining white costal streak from base almost to apex, extremity 

 pointed ; a narrow shining white subdorsal streak from base to 

 tornus ; extreme dorsal edge white : cilia white, at apex grey 

 towards base. Hindwings with deep acute-triangular excision be- 

 low apex, leaving narrow apical and triangular tornal prominences; 

 whitish-grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 



NoKTH Adstbalia, Port Darwin (Dodd) ; one specimen. 



Megacraspedus sematacma, n. sp. 



^ 2 . 13-14 mm. Head, thorax white. Palpi white, second 

 joint brownish or grey except towards apex, tuft long. Abdomen 

 grey. Forewings elongate-lanceolate ; 6 separate ; pale brownish- 

 ochreous, more or less sprinkled irregularly dark fuscous scales, 

 costa suffused whitish from base to beyond middle ; stigmata black, 

 plieal obliquely beyond first discal ; a faint pale acutely-angulated 

 subterminal line ; an elongate slightly curved black apical mark on 

 costa, one or two black dots before it, and two or three on termen : 

 cilia whitish-ochreous or pale greyish-ochreous, two faint greyish 

 shades becoming darker grey on costa. Hindwings rather light 

 grey ; cilia light greyish-ochreous. 



QuEENSLANo, Brisbane, October (Dodd) ; four specimens. Type 

 in Wals. Coll. (7996). The peculiar apical mark is a special 

 character. 



Megacraspedus coniogramma, n. sp. 

 d $. 10-11 mm. Head, tliorax ochreous-white. Paljn white, 

 second joint speckled dark grey except apex, tuft very short. 

 Abdomen ochreous-whitish, segments 2, 3 more ochreous-tinged 



