180 AUSTRALIAN THYRIDIDAE AND PYRALIDAE 



oblique, rounded beneath ; fuscous ; costal half of disc broadly 

 suffused with white ; a dark fuscous basal spot ; an elongate 

 dark fuscous dot on costa at ;, and a larger spot beneath it 

 partly interrupting white suffusion ; two dots placed transversely 

 in mid-disc ; a dark fuscous line from t costa to | dorsum, 

 succeeded by a parallel line ; a triangular blackish spot on costa 

 just before apex ; a series of blackish terminal dots ; cilia grey, 

 at apex white. Hindwings with termen rounded ; thinly scaled 

 and translucent ; grey, towards base whitish ; cilia grey. 



The forewings resemble H. apodectwii, but the hindwings 

 are very different. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



Q., Brisbane ; one specimen. 



HYPHANflDIUM PAMPHAES, It. S}). 



Tra^<f>ar]<;, all-shining. 



<? 10 W- Head ochreous-brown. Palpi short, ascend- 

 ing, recurved, not reaching middle of frons ; fuscous. Antennae 

 ochreous-brown ; in <? slightly serrate, not distorted at base, 

 minutely ciliated (^). Thorax ochreous-brown. Abdomen 

 ochreous-whitish. Legs dark fuscous ; posterior pair whitish, 

 mixed with fuscous on lower surface. Forewings elongate 

 triangular, costa straight to near apex, apex rounded, termen 

 slightly oblique, slightly rounded ; pale brownish ochreous, in 

 certain lights bright iridescent purple ; cilia concolorous. 

 Hindwings with termen nearly straight ; thinly scaled, whitish, 

 suffused with grey ; veins outlined in grey ; cilia pale grey with 

 a whitish basal line. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q., Townsville, in February ; one specimen received from 

 Mr. F. P. Dodd, who informs me that he found the larv» 

 feeding on the webs of abandoned nests of the green ant. 



Gen. 22. Tylochares. 

 Ti/lochan's, Meyr. 



tylochares cosmiella. 

 Myelois cosmiella, Meyr., P.L.S.N.S.W. 1878, p. 212. 

 Q., Duaringa ; N.S.W., Moruya ; V., Melbourne; Birchip, 

 Murtoa. 



TYLOCHARES SCEPTUCHA, V. Sp. 



o-Kr/TTTovxos, bearing a wand or staff" ; in allusion to central 

 streak of forewings. 



^ 19 DUil- Head ochreous-whitish, face fuscous. Palpi 

 recurved, ascending, rather densely scaled anteriorly ; fuscous, 



