150 AUSTRALIAN THYRIDIDAE AND PYRALIDAE 



If CRYTOBLABES FEBREALIS. 



Cryptoblahes ferrealis, Low., P.L.S.N.S.W. 1901, p. 663. 

 Q., Brisbane (Lower). N.W.A., Derby (Lower). 



CRYPTOBLABES PLAGIOLEUCA, 71. Sp. 



vXay LoXcvKo?, obliquely white. 



2 14 v\Vl. Head and thorax reddish purple ; face and 

 palpi fuscous. Antennae ochreous whitish, annulated with dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen, fuscous. Legs, fuscous, irrorated with 

 whitish and reddish purple. Forewings elongate, slightly 

 dilated, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, terraen obliquely 

 rounded, reddish purple mixed with fuscous, the purple being best 

 marked on veins and towards base of dorsum ; a conspicuous 

 straight white fascia from ^ costa to f dorsum ; a whitish discal 

 dot beneath f costa, with a few whitish scales between it and 

 costa ; a whitish line from 4 costa obliquely inwards forming a 

 short angle inwards and again outwards before mid-disc, angled 

 again inwards near dorsum, ending at | dorsum ; a series of 

 fuscous terminal dots preceded by some whitish irroration '• 

 cilia pale purple, at apex and tornus grey. Hindwings with 

 termen rounded, whitish grey, darker on apex and termen ; cilia 

 pale grey. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



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

 Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



CRYPTOBLABES ADOCETA ». Sp. 



aSoKrjTO's, plain, inglorious. 



^ 2 14-16 \T\- Head, thorax, and palpi fuscous. An- 

 tennae fuscous ; in <y thickened, simple but slightly serrate 

 towards apex, very minutely ciliated. Abdomen pale grey. 

 Legs fuscous irrorated with whitish. Forewings moderately 

 elongate, costa at first straight, rather strongly arched beyond 

 middle, apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded ; fuscous with 

 whitish irroration, towards termen obscurely reddish-fuscous ; a 

 pale oblique fascia from ^ costa to f dorsum ; a dark discal dot 

 at f, sometimes a second dot between this and costa ; a narrow 

 dark angulated fascia from ;} costa to i dorsum ; a subterminal 

 dark blotch ; a series of dark fuscous terminal dots ; cilia grey 

 irrorated with whitish. Hindwini>'s with termen rounded; 

 whitish, slightly suffused with grey at apex and along termen; 

 cilia whitish. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



