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Pyroderces oxyleuca, n. sp. 



J . 11-12 mm. Head shining whitish. Palpi white, second 

 joint greyish except towards apex, terminal joint with base and 

 two bands dark grey. Thorax white, patagia ferrnginous-brown. 

 Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Eorewings narrow-lanceolate, long- 

 pointed, apex rather produced, acute ; ferruginous-brown, on costal 

 half suffused with fuscous ; a broad white dorsal streak from base 

 attenuated to tornus ; costal edge white from base to band ; a 

 short sinuate oblique white line from costa towards base ; a short 

 white longitudinal line in disc posteriorly above middle running 

 into band ; a transverse band at |, enclosed by two silvery-white 

 narrow fasciae each marked on costa with a black strigula, space 

 between these suffused with white except on costa, first fascia 

 marked on tornus with a silvery-metallic spot whose apex is 

 followed by a black dot ; apical area beyond band suffused with 

 whitish-ochreous : cilia ochreous-whitish. Hindwings grey ; cilia 

 ochreous-whitish-grey, on costa ochreous-whitish. 



Cexlon, Maskeliya, in January and February (Pole) ; two 

 specimens. 



Pyroderces irrigua, n. sp. 



5 . 11-12 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint pale 

 brownish except apex. Thorax white, patagia brown. Abdomen 

 whitish. Forewiugs narrow-lanceolate, apex acutely produced : 

 pinkish-brown, paler and more pinkish between veins towards 

 margins, suffused with ochreous-whitish between veins towards 

 costa from about f to | ; a moderately broad ochreous-whitish 

 streak along dorsum from base, attenuated to tornus and thence 

 continued slenderly along termen to apex, somewhat streaked with 

 pale brownish suffusion towards middle of dorsum ; obscure 

 elongate dark fuscous dots on fold at | and beyond middle of wing: 

 cilia whitish-grey, round apex tinged with brownish. Hindwings 

 grey ; cilia light grey. 



Worth Atjstealia, Port Darwin (Dodd) ; two specimens. Allied 

 to notocJiorda. 



Pyroderces sideraula, n. sp. 



5.13 mm. Head bronzy-fuscous, face paler. Palpi pale 

 yellowish, apex of second joint blackish, terminal joint whitish 

 suffused with blackish except towards base and apex. Thorax 

 bronzy-fuscous, with darker dorsal stripe edged with pale yellowish 

 posteriorly. Abdomen dark grey, two basal segments pale ochreous. 

 Posterior tibiae ochreous-whitish, apical half dark fuscous except 

 apical hairscales. Porewings narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; pale 

 bronzy-ochreous, somewhat mixed and streaked with ferruginous- 

 ochreous suffusion; a fine blackish streak along basal fifth of costa; 

 a narrow blackish median streak from base to | ; an undefined 

 blackish patch extending along dorsum from near base to i of 

 wing ; a patch of four irregular blackish longitudinal streaks occu- 

 pying costal half of wing from about ^ to f , second extended along 



