50 AUSTRALIAN THYRIDIDAE AND PYRALIDAE 
Veins 4 and 5 of forewings may be either stalked or 
approximated at base Iam disposed to recognise Mr. Mey- 
rick’s genus as valid, but postpone the subdivision of Phycita 
for the present. 
N.Q., Townsville. Also from New Guinea. 
PHYCITA SAGITTIFERELLA. 
Vitripestis sagittiferella, Moore. 
Q@., Brisbane ; one ¢ in Coll. Lyell. 
PHYCITA AUCHMODES, 2. Sp. 
auxpodns, squalid. 
¢ 18 mm. Head fuscous. Palpifuscous, in ¢ dilated, 
exceeding vertex, closely appressed to frons, and recurved at 
apices. Antennae fuscous; in f notched internally at 3, 
thickened before and after notch, very minutely cihated. 
Thorax grey. Abdomen pale grey. Legs fuscous with some 
whitish scales ; middle tibiae in f dilated ; posterior tibiae 
in g with a pencil of long hairs from base and a shorter tuft 
at apex. Forewings elongate-triangular. costa moderately 
arched, apex rounded, termen rounded, oblique ; grev mixed 
with fuscous and white ; a whitish line with a posterior denta- 
tion in mid-dise from } costa to ; dorsum; two fuscous 
discai dots placed transversely beneath mid-costa ; a fine 
whitish dentate sub-terminai line ; an obscure series of dark 
fuscous terminal dots; cilia whitish grey. Hindwings with 
termen slightly sinuate ; dorsal margin turned over beneath 
in g ; pale grey; cilia whitish-grey. 
This species appears to be referable to Thylacoptila, 
Meyr. 
Type in Coll. Turner. 
Q., Brisbane, in April; one specimen. There 1s also 
an example in the British Museum from the Malay Peninsula. 
NEPHOPTERYX NODICORNELLA. 
Nephopteryx nodicornella, Rag., Nouv. Gen. p. 21,. 
Mon. Phye., p. 386, Pl. 43, f. 14. Hmps., Moths Ind., iv, 
p. 84. 
I took six examples showing considerable variation among 
mangrove below high water mark, and would like to be in a 
position to confirm Sir Geo. Hampson’s indentification. 
Q.. Burpengary near Brisbane, in April. Also from 
India. 
