BY A. JEFFEEIS TURNER. 41 



dorsum ; cilia ochreous-whitish. Hindwings with termen 

 rounded ; as fore wings but without first line. 

 Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.A., Port Darwin, in November ; one specimen 

 received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Sylepta placoph^a, n. sp. 

 7tXaxoq)aiog, broadly fuscous. 



$ 36 mm. Head and thorax fuscous. Palpi with 

 terminal joint slender, acute ; fuscous. Antennae fuscous. 

 Abdomen fuscous, towards base fuscous-whitish. Legs 

 fuscous ; anterior tibiae and all tarsi annulated with whitish- 

 ochreous. Forewings triangular, costa gently arched, more 

 strongly towards apex, apex round-pointed, termen bowed, 

 oblique ; brown-whitish, markings fuscous ; a moderate 

 basal patch ; a subcostal spot at ^, succeeded by an oval 

 pale-centred subcostal spot ; a dentate line from | costa, 

 bent inwards below middle to beneath second spot, and 

 then at a right angle to f dorsum ; a broad terminal fascia 

 separated from the preceding by a fine dentate whitish 

 line ; cilia fuscous, bases barred with whitish. Hindwings 

 with termen rounded ; fuscous, towards base suffused 

 with brown-whitish ; a median fuscous pale-centred spot 

 at I ; a whitish subcostal spot at ^, giving rise to a fine 

 dentate whitish line as far as vein 2 ; a whitish line from 

 vein 2 at middle of disc nearly to tornus ; cilia as forewings. 



Type in Coll. Turner. Referred to this genus for the 

 present, but the slender acute terminal joint of palpi 

 renders its position doubtful. 



N.Q., Kuranda, near Cairns, in January ; one specimen 

 received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Sylepta hicana, n. sp. 



Ixavog, befitting. 



^ $ 17-21 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi 

 fuscous ; base sharply white ; terminal joint short, obtuse, 

 whitish. Antennae whitish-ochreous ; ciliations in ^ 

 extremely minute. Thorax whitish-ochreous, towards base 

 mixed with white ; terminal segment white with fuscous 

 apex and whitish-ochreous tuft. Legs whitish ; anterior 



