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transverse fascia towards base, partially sprinkled with dark 

 iuscous, in $ anterior lialf wholly orange except base ; cilia in ^ 

 dark fuscous, in $ yellowish, with dark fuscous basal third round 

 apical half, and more or less sutfused with grey towards middle of 

 ternien. 



North Australia, Tort Darwin (Dodd); Queensland, Cairns, in 

 November (Dodd); four specimens (2 J , i^ $ ). 



loptera xenica, n. sp. 



cJ , 20 mm. Head whitish. Palpi fuscous, terminal joint 

 whitish. Autennal ciliations 5. Thorax brownish-ochreous 

 sprinkled with whitish. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Forewings 

 elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termeii extremely 

 obliipiely lounded ; brownish-ochreous slightly sprinkled with 

 whitish, becoming deeper brownish towards costa ; costal edge 

 suffused with white except at base ; an undefined white streak iu 

 disc from ^ to |, and another more sutfused along fold from near 

 base to before middle : cilia whitish, base tinged with ochreous- 

 brownish. Hindwings pale ochreous grey ; cilia Avhitish. 



ISouxH Australia, Hoyleton, in April {Guest); one specimen. 



EULECHRIA, Meyr. 



I do not think Linosticha Meyr. can be usefully maintained as 

 distinct, and I propose therefore to merge it entirely in Euhdtria. 



Eulechria capsellata, n. sp. 



J . 22-24 mm. Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous. 

 Palpi white sprinkled with fuscous. Antennal ciliations 2^. 

 Abdomen whitish. Forewings elongate, costa geutly arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; whitish, sprinkled with fuscous 

 and dark fuscous ; stigmata pale ochreous-yellowish, partially edged 

 A\ith dark fuscous suffusion, plical hardly beyond first discal ; 

 above and beneath both discal stigmata and beyond plical are ill- 

 defined dark fuscous rings centred with whitish ; a series of cloudy 

 dots of blackish irroration from a cloudy patch on costa about | to 

 beneath apex and thence very near termen to tornus : cilia whitish, 

 with some scattered dark fuscous scales near base and an indistinct 

 fuscous line. Hindwings grey-whiiish, termen sometimes greyer- 

 sufl'used ; cilia whitish, with faint grey subbasal line. 



Victoria, Monbulk, in ISeptember (Lyell) ; South Australia 

 probably Mount Lofty (Guest); two specimens. Allied to stadiota. 



Eulechria ruinosa, n. sp. 



(^ . 26 mm. Head and palpi whitish mixed with light fuscoua, 

 Ajitennal ciliations 14. Thorax fuscous sprinkled with whitish. 

 Abdomen pale greyish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, slio-htlv 



