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veins 4 and 5 connate or short-stalked ; snow-white ; markings 

 pale brownish-ochreous ; a short outwardly oblique streak from 

 costa beyond middle ; a similar streak from costa at | continued 

 as a fine line obliquely outwards towards mid-termen, then bent 

 inwards to dorsum before tornus ; a third streak from costa 

 before apex, continued as a fine line to termen above 

 middle ; a fine darker terminal line ; cilia bases white barred with 

 fuscous except towards apex and tornus, apices pale brownish- 

 ochreous. Hindwings with termen slightly sigmoid ; whitish ; 

 cilia white. 



N.Q., Townsville, in January and March ; two specimens 

 received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



ft CRAMBUS DIANIPHUS. 



Cramhm dianiphn, Low., P.L.S.N.S.W. 1891, p. 660. 



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



(ren. 6. Anaclastis, nuv. 



dvaKXao-Tos, broken ; in allusion to termen of forewings. 



Face with a conical anterior projection. Tongue present. 

 Labial palpi long (5), porrect, densely clothed with long hairs. 

 Antennae of ^ somewhat thickened, shortly ciliated {\). Fore- 

 wings with veins 5, 7, and 11 absent. Hindwings with vein 

 5 absent, 7 anastomosing ."-trongly with 8, 8 well separated 

 from cell. 



A development of Mesalia, Rag., of which genus Sir Geo. 

 Hampson considers it a section ; but it appears to me sufficiently 

 distinct. 



ANACLASTIS APICISTRIGELLA. 



Crambus apicistrifiellus, Meyr., P.L.S.N.S.W. 1879, p. 209. 

 Q., Brisbane; N.S.W., Sydney. 



Gen. 7. Mesolia. 

 Mesoliu, Rag., Ann. Ent. Soc. Fr. 1888, p. 282. Hmps., 

 P.Z.S. 1895, p. 962. 



MESOLIA SCYTHRASTIS, H. S}). 



(TKvOpo^, gloomy. 



$ 20-22 HUH- Head, thorax, palpi and antennae dark- 

 fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. Legs whitish ; anterior pair 

 suffused with fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa nearly 

 straight, apex rounded, termen slightly oblique, indented at ^ 

 from apex, beneath rounded ; veins 4 and 5 long-stalked ; 

 fuscous ; towards termen paler ; dorsal area beneath fold 

 irrorated with whitish ; a transverse dark-fuscous streak between 

 fold and mid-dorsum ; a whitish spot edged with dark-fuscous 



