336 Exonc micholepidoptera. 



extremity connected with costa by a small dark fuscous si)ot ; an 

 elon"-ate irregular dark fuscous patch along dorsum from near base 

 to middle, and another from near beyond this to tornus, both 

 narr()wly or hardly separated by yellowish suffusion from tlie 

 streaks above tl era ; a streak of silvery-whitish and grey scales 

 edged with dark grey extending along costa from | to apex, and a 

 dark fuscous streak along termen beneath it, space between these 

 ochreous-yellowish : cilia dark grey, on costa whitish-ochreuus. 

 Hindwings and cilia dark grey. 



KoRxu; Australia, Port Darwin (Dodd) ; one specimen. 



Zaratha crotolitha, n. sp. 



(5 2 . 13-15 mm. Head and thorax grey, face whitish. Palpi 

 white, more or less lined suffusedly with dark fuscous. Abdomen 

 grey. Forewings extremely narrow, pointed ; fuscous suffusedly 

 irrorated with dark fuscous ; a suffused ochreous-ycllow subcostal 

 line from base to 1 ; a short similar line beneath costa towards 

 middle ; a whitish-ochreous longitudinal mark in disc beyond 

 middle, and a fine white dash between this and subcostal line ; 

 aj)ical third of wing yellow-ochreous except on margins, with a 

 white streak on tornus, a small white dark-margined spot in disc 

 beyond this, one on costa at f, one on termen slightly before this, 

 an ochreous-white blackish-margined streak along n|)per half of 

 termen, and a blackish streak along costa from the white spot to 

 apex : cilia dark grey, at apex with a very short black hook, above 

 this whitish. Hindwings and cilia dark grey. 



North Australia, Port Darwin ; Queensland, Cairns, in Sep- 

 tember (Dodd) ; five specimens. 



Stathmopoia sideracma, n. sp. 



5 . 13 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, crown tinged with grey 

 anteriorly, face white. Palpi whitish. Thorax whitish-ochreous. 

 Abdomen oehreous-whitish, segmental margins white with a ferru- 

 ginous line at base. Posterior tibiae and tarsi with whorls of very 

 long bristles. Forewings extremely narrow, widest near base, thenco 

 narrowed to acute apex ; whitisli-ochreous, suffused with brownish 

 except along costa, extreme costal edge fuscous ; base whitish ; a 

 pale violet-metallic streak beneath costa from near base to i and a 

 transverse mark towards dorsum near base ; an outwardly oblique 

 whitish strcfik from dorsum at 5, and an inwardly oblique whitish 

 streak from dorsum before tornus, these not reaching costa, but 

 connected by a short dark violet-grey longitudinal streak in disc ; 

 a whitish streak along termen, edged above by a dark grey wedge- 

 shaped streak based anteriorly on preceding oblique whitish streak 

 and attenuated to apex, containing a violet-metallic spot towards 

 anterior end : cilia light grey. Hindwings grey ; cilia light grey. 



Bengal, Pusa, in June (FkkJur) • one specimen. Allied to 

 tinmlata. 



