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Legs ochreous-whitish. Fore wings elongate, posteriorly some- 

 what dilated, costa posteriorly gently arched, apex obtuse, hind 

 margin oblique, hardly rounded ; whitish-ochreous, faintly tinged 

 with reddish-ochreous ; basal and terminal areas mixed with light 

 ochreous-reddish, forming a suffusion towards margin of lines; 

 basal area suffusedly mixed with grey towards margins ; lines 

 white, somewhat irregular, tolerably defined ; first from two-fifths 

 of costa to middle of inner margin, hardly curved ; second from 

 four-fifths of costa to before anal angle, straight, faintly sinuate 

 above middle ; median area irregularly mixed with grey ; a faint 

 whitish discal spot, beneath which is a small cloudy dark grey 

 spot ; a dark grey spot on costa beyond second line, connected with 

 a dark grey hind-marginal line ; cilia with basal half ochreous- 

 white, terminal half light grey. Hind wings semitransparent, pale 

 grey ; a suffused dark grey hind-marginal line ; cilia whitish, with 

 a dark grey line. 



Lasiosticha, n. g. 



I propose this name in place of Lasiocera, Meyr., 

 preoccupied in the Coleoptera. 



Lasiosticha. antelia, Meyr. 



Also from Victoria (coll. Lucas) ; two females, with 

 the fore wings suffused with whitish towards costa, but 

 otherwise quite similar. 



Heosphora, Meyr. 



Heosphora psamathella, Meyr. 



Also from Brisbane, Queensland ; Fernshaw, Victoria. 

 Anerastia nitens, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, 

 440, is a synonym of this. 



Anerastia, Hh. 



So far as my knowledge of the species of the Anerastia 

 group extends, I should be disposed at present to refer 

 them all to a single genus Anerastia, characterised by 

 the peculiar and apparently constant neuration (as 

 described below), the obsolescence of the maxillary palpi, 

 and the very short or rudimentary tongue ; regarding 

 the variation in the character of the labial palpi, the 

 presence or absence of a horny frontal cone, and of a 

 basal sinuation and small scale-streak or tuft in the 



