BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER. 55 



Xyleutes dictyoschema, n. sp. 



dLxxvoa')(^r)fiOQ, with netted pattern. 



$ 62 mm., 9 94 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark- 

 fuscous. Antennae dark-fuscous ; pectinations in $ 5, 

 apical \ simple. Abdomen fuscous, apices of segments 

 whitish. Legs dark-fuscous ; tarsi with obscure whitish 

 annulations. Forewings elongate-oblong, costa, moderately 

 and evenly arched, apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded, 

 dorsum sinuate : dark-fuscous closely reticulated with 

 blackish ; some whitish irroration of costal edge, a sub- 

 apical patch, above dorsum, and on termen ; cilia fuscous 

 mixed Avith whitish. Hindwings elongate, apex rounded, 

 termen gently rounded ; whitish, in 9 grey, with dark- 

 fuscous network on apical half : cilia as forewings. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q., Kuranda, near Cairns, in October : two specimens 

 received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Xyleutes leucomochla, n. sp. 



XevHOfiox^og, white-barred. 



$ 120 mm. Head fuscous mixed with white ; face 

 a.nd palpi dark-fuscous. Antennae ochreous-fuscous ; 

 pectinations in $ 6. Thorax white irrorated with fuscous, 

 a V-shaped blackish mark, its apex anterior, surrounds 

 a central fuscous area. Abdomen whitish, bases of 

 segments dark-fuscous. Legs fuscous. Forewings elongate, 

 rather narrow, costa slightly arched, apex round-pointed, 

 termen straight, oblique ; dark-fuscous with scanty whitish 

 irroration ; a broad whitish median bar from base to 

 beyond middle ; connected with apex by ill-defined broad 

 whitish streaks, partly strigulated with dark -fuscous ; 

 cilia daik-fuscous with some Avhitish scales. Hindwings 

 broader than forewings, termen somewhat sinuate ; fuscous- 

 grey, darker towards base ; some whitish suffusion at apex 

 and tornus ; cilia whitish with some dark-fuscous bars. 



Type in Coll. Illidge. 



W.A., Cunderdin, in November ; one specimen taken 

 by Mr. R. Illidge. 



