82 LEPIDOPTBROLOGICAL GLEANINGS. 



small i)ostmeclian spot orange. Abdomen blackish with 

 four slender orange rings. Legs blackish ; middle and 

 posterior tibi?e banded with orange. Forewings hyaline ; 

 margins and veins blackish, including a transverse bar at 

 end of cell : cilia Ijlackish. Hindwings hyaline ; veins and 

 margins slenderly blackish, or, towards bases, orange ; 

 cilia blackish. 



9 28-30 mm. Antennae orange except at apex. Palpi 

 with long anterior tuft on second joint yellow in front 

 blackish behind. Thorax yellow except a blackish trans- 

 verse bar behind tegulae. Abdomen A^th postmedian and 

 ante-apical rings and apical tuft orange. All tibiae mostl}' 

 orange on dorsal surface. Forewings orange ; a hyaline 

 streak in and another beneath cell ; a hyaline spot above 

 tornus ; costa, termen, and some of the veins blackish. 



N.A. Port DarAAin in Januar\' ; eight specimens received 

 from Mr. F. P. Dodd. Melville Island ; one specimen from 

 Mr. S. F. Hill, who informs me that it was bred from a gall- 

 like swelling on the stem of a native vine. 



Fam. ELACHLSTID^. 

 Subfam. Cosmopteryginae. 



PERSICOPTILA LAROZONA, n. Sp. 



XaQO^covog, daintily banded. 



S 9 ■ 12-13 mm. Head white, sidetufts orange. Palpi 

 white. Antennae whitish. Thorax white, anteriorlj' mixed 

 with orange. Abdomen ochreous. Legs whitish ; tibiae 

 and tarsi annulated with ochreous. Forewings white with 

 four orange-yellow transverse fasciae, sharply defined ; first 

 at I; second before middle; third from f costa to before 

 tornus, inwardly oblique ; fourth terminal not quite reach- 

 ing tornus, sometimes connected with third, leaving a white 

 dot at apex ; cilia pale-ochreous, at apex of wing white. 

 Hindwings pale-grey ; cilia pale-ochreous-grey. 



N.Q. Townsville in February ; two specimens received 

 from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



PERSICOPTILA DASYSCELES, n. Sp. 



ducrvay.e/.rjg, with hairy legs. 



(J 9 . 12 mm. Head whitish. Palpi whitish, apex of 

 terminal joint fuscous. Antennae whitish. Thorax whitish 



