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ascending, second joint with dense projecting scales beneath, 

 terminal joint very short, cylindrical, obtuse. Maxillary palpi 

 moderate", terminally dilated with loose scales. Abdomen in male 

 elongate, anal tuft moderately large. Posterior tibiae with outer 

 middle-spur absent in both sexes ; anterior femora and basal half 

 of tarsi in male clothed with dense hairs beneath. Fore wings 

 with vein 10 approximated to 9, 11 very oblique. Hind wings as 

 broad as fore wings ; veins 3, 4, 5 approximated at base, 7 out of 6 

 near origin, anastomosing with 8 to beyond one-third (in the only 

 male examined coincident with 8 to apex, but possibly an abnormal 

 instance). 



Filodes fulvidorsalis, Hb. 



Pinacia fulvidorsalis, Hb., Zut., 643, 644 ; Filodes 



fulvidorsalis, Gn., 317 ; Ld., pi. xii., 17. 

 Cooktown, Queensland ; one specimen (coll. Macleay). 

 Also from Manilla, Java, and Ceylon. 



Dractenit.a, Meyr. 

 Dracanura pelochra, Meyr. 

 Botys argyrogaster, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 1886, 431, is a synonym of tins. 



Pleonectusa, Ld. 

 Pleonectusa adlicesalis, Walk. 



Botys adhcesalis, Walk., 664; B. atopalis, ib., 664; 

 B. damasalis, ib., 668; B. macaralis, ib., 709). 



2 t 20—22 mm. Head and thorax light fuscous, tinged with 

 whitish-ochreous. Palpi dark fuscous, towards base white beneath. 

 Antennas pale greyish- ochreous, annulated with fuscous. Abdomen 

 whitish-ochreous. Legs ochreous-whitish. Fore wings very 

 elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly moderately arched, apex 

 obtuse, hind margin oblique, somewhat bowed ; fuscous, some- 

 what tinged with whitish-ochreous ; a dark fuscous dot beneath 

 costa at one-fourth, and a small dark fuscous transverse discal 

 spot in middle ; second line slender, dark fuscous, slightly waved, 

 from two-thirds of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, gently 

 curved outwards; a fin., dark fuscous hind-marginal line; cilia 

 whitish, with a strong dark grey line near base. Hind wings with 

 colour, discal spot, second and hind-marginal lines, and cilia as in 

 fore wings; but discal spot at one-third, smaller and less distinct, 

 second line somewhat irregular but hardly curved. 



