18 STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



cilia whitish. Hindwings with termen rounded, slightly 

 sinuate beneath apex ; pale grey ; cilia pale grey. 



Type in Coll. Turner. A minute and insignificant 

 species. 



N.Q., Kuranda, near Cairns, in February, March and 

 May ; Innisfail in November ; seven specimens. 



Macaduma picroptila. 



mxQOTtriXoq, with sharp-pointed wings. 



Macaduma j)icroptila, Hmps., Cat. Lep. Phal. Suppl. i.^ 

 p. 580. 



(J 20 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax brown. 

 Antennse brown, in ^ moderately ciliated (|), with longer 

 bristles (1|). Abdomen grey ; basal segment and apical 

 tuft brown. Legs whitish-brown. Forewings irregularly 

 quadrate, costa sinuate, strongly bowed at f, apex acute, 

 produced, termen concave ; 7, 8 and 9 stalked ; brown, 

 without defined markings ; a fuscous dot on midcosta and 

 another slightly beyond ; traces of a transverse line from 

 second dot ; cilia ochreous-brown. Hindwings with 

 termen rounded, slightly sinuate beneath apex ; grey ; 

 short brown streaks from base along median and internal 

 veins ; cilia grey. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



Q., Burpengary, near Brisbane, in April; one 

 specimen. 



Caprimima pelochroa. 



TcrjXoxQOiog, clay-coloured. 



Caprimima pelochroa, Hmps., Cat. Lep. Phal. Suppl. i. ;. 

 p. 611 , PI. 32, f. 16. 



(3 9 15-18 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax brownish- 

 fuscous. Antennae brownish-fuscous ; ciliations in ^ 1|. 

 Abdomen brownish-fuscous. Legs brownish-fuscous ; 

 posterior pair whitish. Forewings triangular, costa rather 

 strongly and evenly arched, apex rounded, termen obliquely 

 rounded ; brownish-fuscous ; a fine strongly -dentate fuscous 

 line from ^ costa to ^ dorsum, in ^ sometimes blackish on 

 costa ; a second similar but more finely dentate and often 



