BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER. 109 
uprightness while the moths arose in a dense black cloud, 
and the rustling sound of their wings was distinctly audible. 
- The moths were imbricated on the leaves like the seales of 
a roof. In order to form some estimate of their numbers 
I captured with a sweep of the net the moths on two large 
leaves (at the utmost 5 x 2 inches) and counted 710 speci- 
mens. As the leaves on the shrubs were numerous and the 
shrubs fairly close together the total number of insects 
must have been beyond computation. 
Among the new genera I have made, it is possible that 
some may be identical with extra-Australian genera with 
which I am unacquainted. Among the species I have 
had most difficulty with those of the large genus Proto- 
lechia. The species of this genus are mostly obscure and 
sometimes variable, and of the 85 species described by Mr, 
Meyrick I have so far identified only 33. 
Fam. TINEID. 
Subfam. Gelechiane. 
EPIPHTHORA PSOLOSTICTA n. sp. 
pohootixtos, spotted with black. 
3g. ll mm. Head and thorax whitish. Palpi whitish 
with a few fuscous scales ; second joint with an anterior 
apical tuft, which is longer than terminal joint ; terminal 
joint 4, rather loosely scaled. Antennz whitish. Abdomen 
grey-whitish. Legs whitish ; anterior pair with fine trans- 
verse dark-fuscous strie; middle pair with some fuscous 
irroration most pronounced on tarsi. Forewings narrow, 
costa rather strongly arched, apex acute; whitish with 
scanty pale ochreous-fuscous irroration, denser towards 
apex ; a line of three blackish subcostal dots near base ; 
a blackish subcostal dot at 4, a second opposite to it beneath 
fold, a third above fold before middle ; a short blackish 
subcostal line from middle; blackish dots above tornus, 
before termen above middle, and at apex ; cilia whitish with 
some fuscous irroration round apex. Hindwings with 
emargination rectangular, apical process 4; pale-grey ; 
cilia ochreous-whitish, 
N.S.W., Glen Innes, in March ; one specimen. 
