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ferruginous-oclireous towards | ; a violet-leaden-metallic patch 

 extending over termen and tornus : cilia dark fuscous, round apex 

 whitish with a dark fuscous subbasal line (imperfect). Hindwings 

 and cilia dark fuscous. 



British Guiana, Eartica, in January and February (Parish) ; 

 two specimens. 



Octasphales stellifera, n. sp. 



2 . 23 mm. Head oehreous-grej'^- whitish. Palpi light brownish- 

 grey, tip whitish. Thorax light pinkish-grey. Abdomen grey. 

 Forewings suboblong, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, 

 termen rounded, hardly oblique ; light pinkish-grey, strewn with 

 suffused white dots arranged in longitudinal rows. Hindwings 

 grey ; cilia grey-whitish, with grey subbasal shade. 



New Guinea, Sudest I. (Meek) ; one specimen. 



Peritorneuta bacchata, n, sp. 



5, 19-22 mm. Head grey, sidetufts reddish. Palpi crimson, 

 anterior edge dark fuscous. Thorax reddish-fuscous, dorsally 

 suffused with blackish. Abdomen grey. Forewings suboblong, 

 costa anteriorly moderately, posteriorly slightly arched, apex 

 rounded, termen rounded, hardly oblique ; greyish-ochreous, with 

 rows of obscure dark fuscous dots on veins ; costal edge on anterior 

 half and three costal dots posteriorly bright rosj^-crimson ; an un- 

 defined oblique median fascia of grey suffusion, and transverse 

 patch from costa at | ; an undefined patch of light crimson-reddish 

 suffusion in disc beyond cell : cilia rosy-whitish-grey, becoming 

 rosy-crimson towards base. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Queensland, Cairns (Dodd) ; New South Wales, Hornsby, in 

 March (Lyell) ; two specimens. 



MIMOZELA, n. g. 



Head loosely scaled, sidetufts spreading ; ocelli absent ; tongue 

 developed. Antennae -I, in S somewhat stout, simple, basal joint 

 elongate, without pecten. Labial palpi very long, recurved, with 

 appressed scales, second joint somewhat thickened, terminal joint 

 as long as second, pointed. Maxillary palpi moderate, drooping, 

 thickened with somewhat rough scales towards apex. Posterior 

 tibiae rough-scaled above. Forewings with 1 b furcate, 2 from 

 angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex, 11 from middle. Hindwings 1, 

 ovate, cilia \ ; 3 and 4 connate, 5 curved and rather approximated 

 to 4 at base, 6 and 7 nearly parallel. 



Allied to Pedois. 

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