BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER. 159 
fuscous irroration; stigmata obsolete; cilia pale-grey. 
Hindwings with 3 and 5 approximated at origin, 6 and 7 
long-stalked ; pale-grey ; cilia pale-grey. 
A small and very inconspicuous species. 
N.Q., Kuranda, near Cairns, in October ; one specimen. 
Gen. LOBOPTILA nov. 
AoBoxtihos, with lobed wing. 
Antenne ?; without pecten; ( $ unknown). Labial 
palpi very long, recurved ; second joint exceeding base of 
antenne, slender, smooth-scaled ; terminal joint longer 
than second, slender, acute. Forewings rather broad, 
subquadrate, basal half of costa expanded in a rounded 
lobe ; 2 and 3 separate, parallel, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex 
Hindwings 14, apex round-pointed, termen sinuate ; 2 from 
near end of cell, 3, 4, 5, nearly connate, 6 and 7 separate. 
slightly approximated at base, 8 widely separate from cell, 
but connected with it by a long oblique bar, which arises 
‘from cell before middle. 
A very isolated genus in the Australian fauna. 
LoBOPTILA LEURODES n. sp. 
Aevowdng, polished. 
g. 15-16 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi white ; 
basal 2 of second joint fuscous ; apex of terminal joint dark- 
-fuscous. Antenne white, towards apex grey with some 
blackish scales. Abdomen pale-grey. Legs whitish; tarsi 
with three elongate fuscous dots on upper surface ; anterior 
pair suffused with fuscous. Forewings with basal half of 
costa expanded into a rounded lobe, thence sinuate, apex 
pointed, termen sinuate ; white ; markings and a few scattered 
scales dark-fuscous; a dot on dorsumat 2; discal dots 
minute, first before middle, second at 2, plical obsolete ; 
an elongate mark at ?, connected by irroration with tornus 
and representing a posterior line ; two or three dots on costa 
towards apex ; a terminal line ; cilia ochreous-whitish with 
a median fuscous line. Hindwings and cilia whitish-grey. 
N.Q., Kuranda, near Cairns, in October ; four specimens 
‘received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 
