Descriptions of Pterophoride and Orneodide. 489 
sprinkled with dark grey towards apex. Abdomen white, with a 
few black lateral scales posteriorly. Legs white, anterior femora 
and tibiz streaked with blackish, middle tibiz with fine oblique 
median bar and apical dot blackish, posterior tibize with internal 
fringe of projecting scales on basal half, with a few black specks, 
and black dots on origin of spurs, posterior tarsi somewhat roughened 
with scales, third and fourth joints tufted above and with apical 
black dots (in Australian form nearly obsolete). Fore-wings cleft 
from before 4, segments linear; white, with some scattered black 
specks ; black dots on costa before and beyond middle and about ? 
and on lower margin of first segment towards apex ; a minute black 
dot before middle of second segment, and a round black dot at ?: 
cilia white, with three grey bars (faint in Australian form) on lower 
margin of each segment, and on upper margin of second segment 
at 4 of length. Hind-wings cleft firstly from 4, secondly almost 
from base, segments linear ; white, with some black specks, especially 
at base of first cleft, and along costa from } to middle; second 
segment with small black dots at 4, 2, and before apex ; cilia white, 
on costa with a grey space before middle and bar at 3, on lower 
margin of second segment with grey bars on first two dots. 
Burma; Borngo; New GuINEA, Woodlark Island ; 
SoLomon IsLANDS; QUEENSLAND, Cairus (Dodd) ; Walker's 
type, recorded as from Hindostan, is really from Burma. 
The closely allied melanopoda, Fletcher, which ranges from 
Ceylon to Assam, has the tufts of posterior tarsi mainly 
black; in Walker’s type the tips of the tarsi are broken, 
but enough remains, in conjunction with other characters, 
to show the identity of the species, which I have thought 
it best to redescribe here. 
Alucita rhyparias, n. sp. 
g. 19-20 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish, face fuscous. 
Palpi short, whitish, terminal joint very short. Antenne whitish, 
above with a grey line near base. Abdomen ochreous-whitish, with 
fuscous dorsal line, and some black lateral dots. Legs whitish, 
anterior and middle femora and tibize dark grey anteriorly. Fore- 
wings cleft from 2, segments very slender; ochreous-grey-whitish, 
base of cleft and lower margin of both segments grey ; cilia ochreous- 
grey-whitish, with a faint grey median shade, with two minute 
black dots on costa at about 4 and ? of first segment, and three on 
dorsum of second segment near its base and about } and 3. Hind- 
wings cleft firstly from 4, secondly from 4, segments linear; pale 
grey ; cilia pale grey, becoming grey-whitish towards base. 
