450 EXOTIC MICIIOLEPIUOPTERA. 



whitish iridescence, irregularly sprinkled or strigulated grey ; 

 basal patch somewliat darker, with scattered small blackish marks, 

 edge running from beyond 5 of costa to middle of dorsum ; a 

 triangular patch extending on costa from middle to | and reaching 

 almost to dorsum, light brownish anteriorly and daik grey 

 posteriorly, marked on costa with four blackish spots separated by 

 pairs of whitish strigula), and in disc with some irregular black 

 marking, especially a round spot in middle of posterior edge and an 

 oblique blotch above it, between which is some slight whitish 

 irroration ; an irregular A-sbaped light brownish figure marked 

 with black standing on tornus and reaching | across wing, upper 

 space enclosing a whitish ring, lower some leaden irroration ; a 

 small brownish spot on costa near apex, and rather dark fuscous 

 apical spot, each preceded by a pair of whitish strigula^ : cilia grey 

 mixed dark fuscous. Hindwings 3 and 4 connate ; dark grey ; a 

 subdorsal groove containing hairs, tornal angle prominent ; cilia 

 grey-whitish, a grey subbasal line. 



Queensland, Cairns ; 1 ex. (Coll. Lower). A. euplecta has 

 somewhat similar markings, but hindwings without sexual structures. 



Laspeyresia furiosa, n. sp. 



cf . 13 mm. Head orange-reddish, mixed blackish. Palpi 

 reddish-orange somewhat mixed blackish. Thorax blackish, patagia 

 and posterior margin mixed orange-red. Forewings broadly dilated, 

 termen somewhat oblique; deep orange-red, irregularly marbled 

 purple-blackish mixed leaden, some very irregular oblique marking 

 indicating central fascia, a very oblique series of longitudinal spots 

 beyond this ; a very oblique leaden blackish-edged streak from 

 costa beyond middle nearly to termen beneath apex ; beyond this 

 costal edge black with four oblique whitish strigulae terminated by 

 small blue-leaden spots. Hindwings blackish ; a dull light orange 

 elongate patch in middle of disc; cilia whitish-grey, a blackish 

 subbasal line. 



QuEENSiAKi), Cairns ; 1 ex. (Coll. Lower). 



COSMOrXERYGID.E. 



Lahdia ejaculata, n. sp. 

 J. 8 mm. Head yellow-whitish. Palpi white, basal half and 

 subajiical ring of second joint, submedian and subapical bands of 

 terminal joint blackish. Antennae white ringed dark fuscous, 

 apical half white with throe black bands, basal joint A\hite with 

 apical half black. Thorax dark brown, a}- ex of patagia, a spot at 

 posterior extremity, and bar before it white. Forewings narrow- 

 lanceolate, apex produced; fulvous-brown; iin irregular yellowish- 

 white basal spot; a rather elongate yellowish-white blotch on 

 dorsum before middle, slightly sprinkled fulvous, sending from 

 ujiper margin an irregular white line to costa at \, and from its 

 posterior angle a slender streak to middle of disc ; an oblique 

 silvery-white line from middle of costa to dorsum before tornus, 



