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fuscous scales, more numerous along costa and termen ; a small 

 blackish subbasal spot on costa ; plical and first discal stigmata 

 confluent to form a transverse blackish spot ; second discal repre- 

 sented by a small yellow-ochreous spot edged with blackish : cilia 

 pale greyish-ochreous, with two faint fuscous lines, at base with 

 dots of dark fuscous scales. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Victoria, Gisborue, in January (Lyell) ; one specimen. Type in 

 Coll. Lyell. Most allied to peltosema. 



Recurvaria annulicornis Wals. 



Bred from nests of the wasp Polistes annularis, iu Montserrat 

 Island (Ballou). 



Protolechia acricula, n. sp. 



6 . 17 mm. Head dark fuscous sprinkled with white. Palpi 

 dark fuscous, somewhat sprinkled with white, apex of terminal 

 joint white. Thorax dark purplish-fuscoua. Abdomen grey, anal 

 tuft whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, oblique ; dark fuscous, with 

 slight purplish tinge ; a small yellow-ochreous spot at base in 

 middle ; stigmata small, whit e, plical obliquely beyond first discal ; 

 a row of small white dots round posterior part of costa and termen : 

 cilia on costa dark fuscous spotted with whitish, on termen grey, 

 spotted with whitish on outer half. Hindwings grey ; cilia light 

 grey. 



New South Wales, Ourimbah, in April (Lyell) ; one specimen. 

 Type iu Coll. Lyell. 



Homalox£stis flagitiosa, n. sp, 



d . 14 mm. Head, antenna3, and thorax dark fuscous, antennae 

 apparently somewhat under 1, stout. Palpi light ochreous- 

 yellowish, second joint dark fuscous towards base and at apex 

 beneath, terminal joint with anterior edge dark fuscous. Abdomen 

 fuscous. Posterior legs whitish. Forewings elongate, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, rather oblique ; 7 and 

 8 stalked, 7 to apex, 9 and 10 stalked; dark fuscous, faintly 

 purplish-tinged; discal stigmata faintly indicated as darker spots : 

 cilia fuscous mixed with whitish, with dark fuscous subbasal 

 shade (imperfect). Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Nyassaland, Mt. Mlanje, in November (Neave) ; one specimen. 

 Type in British Museum. 



Lecithocera protoma, u. sp. 



5.14 tnm. Head whitish-ochreous, crown fuscous. Palpi 

 ochreous-wliitish, second joint fuscous except tip. Antennae 

 ochreous-whitish ringed with fuscous. Thorax and abdomen 



