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produced; grey ; a blacldsh apical dot surrounded by whitish 

 sufFusiou ; cilia pale grey, at apex whitish with short blackish line 

 near tips. 



Assam, Shillong, 5000 feet, June {Fletcher) ; 1 ex. 



Stomopteryx coracina, n. sp. 



J . 9 mm. Head, thorax dark bronzy-fuscous. Palpi bronzy- 

 grey, apex of second joint whitish, terminal joint whitish lined 

 black. Torewings elongate-lanceolate, acute ; G separate, close to 

 7 at base ; dark bronzy-fuscous ; a minute whitish dot indicating 

 plical stigma, and one on tornus ; a slight white transverse mark 

 on costa at | : cilia grey, base mixed blackish, lliudwings dark 

 slaty-grey ; cilia grey ; costa with fringe of long dark violet-grey 

 hairs from base to beyond middle. 



Queensland, Brisbane, January (Dodd) ; 1 ex., Wals. Coll. 

 (19441). 



Protolechia bistrigata, n. sp. 



5 . 10 mm. Head whitish. Palpi whitish, second joint rcddish- 

 fuscous except apex, terminal joint tinged fuscous in middle. 

 Thorax whitish, a black line on each side of dorsum, patagia 

 rod -brown. Abdomen black irrorated whitish, apex whitish. 

 Forewings apex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; pale 

 ochreous largely suffused light brown- reddish ; a line of dark grey 

 scales almost on costa towai'ds base ; a small group of black scales 

 just below costa before middle, and two others similarly placed 

 midway between this and apex ; a black streak along basal half of 

 fold, and an irregular thicker streak in disc from before middle to 

 I : three or four strigulae of irregular black scales along termen and 

 at apex ; a white marginal line round posterior part of costa and 

 termen : cilia whitish-ochreous, some scattered grey specks towards 

 base. Hindwings subhyaline whitish ; suffused grey streaks along 

 veins, and a broad terminal band of grey suffusion ; cilia whitish. 



UuEiiNSLAND, Brisbane, May (Dodd) ; 1 ex., Wals. Coll. (13200). 



Protolechia vacatella Walk. 

 The c? has blackish hindwings with pale ochreous-yellowish cilia. 



Protolechia penthicodes, n. sp. 

 5 . 16 mm. Head, palpi, thorax white irrorated dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen dark grey. Porewings rather narrow, apex obtuse- 

 pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; fuscous ; a very irregular 

 streak of white suffusion running from base of costa through middle 

 of disc to termen beneath apex, with undefined branches of white 

 irroration along veins towards costa ; a narrow black streak along 

 fold throughout, edged beneath by a suffused white streak towards 

 middle and nearly interrupted with white in middle ; short longi- 

 tudinal streaks of dark fuscous irroration representing discal 

 Btiginata, and similar marks towards jiosterior portion of costa and 

 termen between veins : cilia grey, basal half sprinkled dark fuscous, 



