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mass of much enlarged flat scales. Abdomen without crest. Legs 

 with appressed scales. Forewings with raised discal tuft ; neuration 

 normal. Hindwings with raised discal tuft ; 3 and 4 short-stalked 



5 tolerably parallel, 6 and 7 remote. 



P. pentaptilay n. sp. 



^ . 21 m.m. Head and thorax reddish-ochreous partially suffused 

 with fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings elongate-triangular, 

 costa hardly arched, apex obtuse, termen crenulate, rounded, ob- 

 lique ; ochreous-brown, basal, discal, and dorsal areas largely 

 suffused with dark purplish-fuscous ; an undefined ferruginous streak 

 beneath costa from near base to beyond middle ; first and second 

 lines waved, double, blackish, first slightly curved, second ^enclosing 

 a whitish-ochreous costal mark, strongly curved outwards on upper 

 J ; an indistinct irregularly curved darker median shade : beyond 

 second line a large subtriangular dark fuscous costal patch, somewhat 

 glossy and greenish-tinged ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, waved, 

 darker-edged ; a terminal series of dark fuscous dots between veins, 

 connected by fuscous suflusion : cilia greyish-ochreous mixed with 

 dark fuscous, base spotted with light brown. Hindwings with 

 termen crenate, ochreous-brown, sprinkled with dark fuscous ; discal 

 tuft larger than in forewings, scales partly pale ; median, second, 

 and subterminal lines, terminal markings and cilia as in forewings, 

 but second line less curved, without pale costal mark. 



Eichmond River, New South Wales (Olliff); one 

 specimen. 



Trigonistis, n. g. 



Head with projecting frontal tuft. Tongue developed. Antennae 

 in (J bipectinated, apex simple. Labial palpi very long, second 

 joint straight, porrected, clothed with rough scales diminishing to- 

 wards apex, terminal joint moderate, slender, cylindrical, ascending. 

 Thorax and abdomen without crests. Legs with appressed scales. 

 Forewings : 9 and 10 out of 8. Hindwings : 3, 4, 5 approximated, 



6 and 7 connate. 



Type T. demonias. Closely allied to Hypcnodcs, but 

 without abdominal crest. 



T. demonias, n. sp. 



^ . 16 m.m. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous suffused with 

 whitish. Antennal pectinations long. Palpi abnormally long, second 

 joint about ten times width of eye, terminal about half second. Fore- 



