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Crocydopora, Mcyr. 



Crocydopora cinigerella, Walk. 



Also from Duaringa, Queensland ; Glen Innes, Bathurst, 

 and Cooma, New South Wales ; Fernshaw, Victoria ; 

 and in New Zealand. 



Ernophthora, n. g. 

 Forehead vertical. Ocelli present. Tongue well-developed. 

 Antennae three-fourths, in male subdentate, moderately ciliated, 

 not sinuate, with a small tuft of scales on back at base. Labial 

 palpi moderately long, curved, ascending, second joint with loosely 

 appressed scales, terminal joint short, filiform, slender, pointed. 

 Maxillary palpi rather short, filiform. Abdomen in male with 

 small anal tuft. Posterior tibiae with outer spurs half inner. Fore 

 wings with vein 2 from close before angle, 3 and 4 stalked, 

 5 absent, transverse vein obsolete, 7 absent, 10 rising out of stalk 

 of 8 and 9, 11 closely approximated to it at base. Hind wings 1^ ; 

 vein 4 absent, 5 absent, transverse vein absent, 6 and 7 both 

 rising out of 8 at one-third and two-thirds respectively. 



Allied to Hypophana, but with remarkable neuration ; 

 no other genus of the family has both veins 4 and 5 of 

 the hind wings absent. 



Ernophthora phoenicias, n. s. 

 3 , 15 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous- 

 grey, somewhat mixed with whitish. Antennas grey. Legs 

 white, irrorated with fuscous-crimson, and banded with dark 

 fuscous. Fore wings elongate, narrow, tolerably dilated posteriorly, 

 costa slightly arched, apex tolerably rectangular, hind margin 

 rather oblique, straight, rounded beneath ; white, irregularly 

 irrorated with fuscous-crimson ; a fuscous basal fascia mixed with 

 blackish, outer edge from near base of costa to one-third of inner 

 margin ; a moderately broad fuscous fascia, mixed with black on 

 upper half, from one-third of costa to middle of inner margin, 

 somewhat dilated and indistinct beneath, confluent posteriorly 

 with a cloudy fuscous suffusion along inner margin to anal angle ; 

 a small roundish blackish spot beneath middle of costa, and a 

 blackish dot beneath it ; second line whitish, margined with 

 cloudy fuscous lines spotted with longitudinal blackish marks, 

 from costa near apex to before anal angle, indented beneath costa, 

 indentation connected with dorsal suffusion by a cloudy fuscous 



