90 AUSTRALIAN THYRIDIDAE AND PYRALIDAE 
MELLISSOBLAPTES CISSINOBAPHES, 2. sp. 
kicowoBadys, stained with ivy green. 
g 24 TM. Head and antennae ochreous-whitish. 
Palpi ochreous-whitish, tinged on outer surface with pale 
fuscous. Thorax whitish-ochreous, collar and  patagia 
dull greenish. Abdomen ochreous. Legs ochreous-whitish ; 
anterior and middle pairs mixed with fuscous. Forewings 
elongate-oval, costa strongly arched, apex round-pointed, 
termen obliquely rounded ; ochreous-whitish, mixed with 
dark fuscous and reddish fuscous ; in posterior part of disc 
the dark scales form fine lines along the veins ; a large oval 
green suffusion on dorsum from } nearly to tornus, reaching 
nearly to middle of disc: a slight green suffusion at apex ; 
a series of minute dark-fuscous dots on termen and apical 
3 of costa; cilia ochreous-whitish with median and penul- 
timate fuscous lines. Hindwings with termen rounded, 
scarcely sinuate ; dull ochreous ; apical 4 suffused with dull 
greenish ; cilia whitish grey. 
Type in Coll. Lyell. 
N. Q., Kuranda; in May; one specimen received from 
Mr. F. P. Dodd. 
TALIS PEDIONOMA. 
W.A., Bridgetown (Coll. Lyell). 
TALIS ICELOMORPHA, 2. Sp. 
eixeAopophos, of similar form. 
9 24 TILT. Head, palpi and thorax ochreous-whitish ; 
frontal cone well developed (4); palpi very long (5). An- 
tennae ochreous-whitish, towards apex grey. Abdomen 
whitish. Legs ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, costa 
rather strongly arched, apex tolerably acute, termen nearly 
straight, oblique ; ochreous-whitish sparsely irrorated with 
large black fuscous scales ; a fine indistinct median whitish 
streak from base to ?, margined above with fuscous ; a dark 
fuscous discal dot on lower edge of median streak shortly 
before end: some minute dark-fuscous terminal dots; cilia 
whitish. Hindwings with termen rounded, whitish ; cilia 
whitish. 
Near acontophora but frons with a longer cone, forewings 
with termen not sinuate, central streak not prolonged to 
termen or apex, cilia without darker line. 
Type in Coll. Lyell. 
W.A., Bridgetown. 
