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fibove except just before apex, with apical projecting tuft of bristly 

 hairs. Fore-wings c? beneath with subcostal area clothed wil.h 

 extremely long fine cxpausiblo hairs ; 1 b furcate, 2 from near 

 angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from beyond middle, 

 llindwings imJer 1, linear-lanceolate, cilia 3 ; 2— i remote, 5-7 

 a])proximated towards base. 



Ty\ye sideraida Meyr. (Vol. I, p. 315) ; c? characters taken from 

 a second specimen kindly c jmmuuicated by Dr. A. J. Turner. 



13LAST0BASID.E. 



/ Blastobasis ochrobathi-a, n. sp. 



cJ 2 • 13-14 mm. Head light ochrcous-yellowish, crown fiome- 

 times slightly sprinkled fuscous. Palpi pale ochreous-yellowish, in 

 (5 irrorated dark fuscous, stout, nearly equally thickened throughout, 

 tolerably j)ointcd, in 5 more or less sprinkled fuscous, terminal joint 

 moderate, acute, variable in length from half to as long as second. 

 Antennae J with strong subbasal notch, ciliations 1. Thorax light 

 ochreous-yellowish, somewhat infuscated anteriorly* Eorewings 

 rather dark purplish-fuscous, bases of scales more or less whitish- 

 ochreous, forming a suffused irroration ; base of wing narrowly 

 pale yellow-ochreous ; discal stigmata woU-marked, dark fuscous, 

 an additional dot beneath second : cilia light greyish. Hindwiugs 

 pale ochreous-grey, veins obscurely darker ; cilia whitish-ochreous- 

 grey. 



British Guiana, Golden Grove, bred from blossoms of coconut 

 palm, June (Cleare) ; 6 ex. Type in Brit. Mus. 



CYCLOTORNID.E. 



Cyclotorna ementita, n. sp. 



c?.18mm. Head whitish-grey, sidetufts grey. Antennae flat- 

 compressed, grey. Thorax dark fuscous, apex of patagia grey. 

 Forewings subovate, termen obliquely rounded ; 7 and 8 stalked ; 

 grey, irrorated dark grey and whitish ; a large irregular undefined 

 patch of dark grey suffusion in disc before middle, a small dark 

 grey spot beneath middle, and a transverse dark grey blotch in disc 

 at I", occupying nearly half width of wing : cilia rather dark grey, 

 llindwings dark fuscous ; cilia rather dark grey. 



South Australia, Pinnaroo ; 1 ex. (Coll Lower). Darker- 

 coloured than fxperta, with larger postmedian blotch, and 7 and 8 

 ef forewings stalked. 



EPERMENIAD.E. 



Eperinenia pithanopis, n. sp. 



J . 11 mm. Head white. Palpi while, apical half of second joint 



sprinkled grey. Thorax white, patagia tinged ochroous. Fore- 



