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termen ; cilia whitish, en apex grey, with a fuscous ba?al 

 line except on tornus and dorsum. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.S.W., Brewairina : two specimens received from 

 Mr. W. W. Froggatt, who informs me that the larvae bore 

 the stems of Capparis mitchelli, feeding for about twelve 

 months in the wood and finally killing the tree. This is 

 an even finer discovery than the previous species 

 described from the same locality. 



Subfam. Pyralinae. 

 Cangetta ammochroa, n. sp. 

 dfjijbioxQOog, sand-coloured. 



^ 10 mm. Head pale-brown ; face whitish. Palpi 

 pale-brown ; apex of second joint blackish ; terminal joint 

 white. Antennae brown-whitish. Thorax pale-brown. 

 Abdomen pale-brown, apices of segments whitish, but 

 apex of ninth segment blackish. Legs whitish. Fore wings 

 triangular, costa straight, arched towards apex, apex 

 rounded, termen rounded, scarcely oblique ; pale-brown ; 

 a costal fuscous streak to ^ ; two brown transverse lines, 

 fuscous on costa ; first at ^, outwardly curved ; second 

 from § costa to | dorsum, nearly straight ; four or five 

 brown-fuscous dots on apical half of termen, edged by a 

 narrow whitish shade ; cilia white with a fuscous sub-basal 

 line. Hindwings with termen gently rounded ; as fore wings 

 but without first line ; a line from § costa forming a v-shaped 

 curve in disc, and ending on dorsum near tornus. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.A., Port Darwin, in January ; one specimen received 

 from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Gen. Tanaobela, nov. 



tavao^eXoQ, with long weapons (palpi). 



Frons with a short projecting tuft. Tongue present. 

 Palpi extremely long (12), porrect ; second joint extremely 

 long, thickened with long loose scales above and beneath ; 

 terminal joint about \ second, spathulate, much thickened 

 with loosely spreading scales at apex. Maxillary palpi 

 long (1), triangularly dilated with scales. (Antennae of $ 



