112 AUSTRALIAN LEFIDPTERA (PYRALIDiE). 



HYPSOTROrHA NIPHOSEMA, U. Sp. 



r:.(fiO(rf)fi.(t<i, SHOW- marked. 



f 5 . 18-20 mm. Head dark-fuscous. Palpi very 

 long in both sexes ( J 5, ? 7) ; dark-fuscous. Antennae 

 fuscous : in J thickened and dentate, with a broad notch 

 filled with rough scales on dorsal surface near base. 

 Thorax dark-fuscous. Abdomen grey ; dorsum except 

 near apex ochreous. Legs fuscous. Fore wings narrow, 

 costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen 

 very obliquely rounded ; dark-fuscous, in ? sometimes 

 reddish- tinged ; a whitish or ochreous-whitish costal streak, 

 narrower towards base, and ending in a point at apex ; 

 costal edge more or less fuscous ; cilia dark-fuscous. Hind- 

 wings grey- whitish, darker towards a})ex ; cilia whitish. 



Like the preceding but considerably larger, the J 

 palpi longer, and the T antenna? dentate. Vein 10 of 

 forewnigs may be either stalked or separate, so that I 

 •doubt whether the genus Hypsofropha as defined by Hampson^ 

 • can be maintained. 



Type in Coll., Turner. 



N.A. Port Darwin, in Xovember and December ; five 

 specimens received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Hypsotropha dyseimata, II. sp. 



8vcr€t/xaTo?, meanly clad. 



(J 9 • L5 mm. Head fuscous- whitish or ochreous- 

 whitish. Palpi very long ( (J 4, 9 ^^) ? ochreous-whitish 

 mixed with fuscous. Antennae ochreous-whitish, in ^ 

 with a broad notch containing rough scales on upper surface 

 near base, ciliations minute. Thorax ochreous-whitish. 

 Abdomen ochreous-whitish ; dorsum of basal segments 

 ochreous. Legs ochreous-whitish ; anterior and middle 

 pairs fuscous in ^ . Forewings narrow, costa moderately 

 arched, apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded ; ochreous- 

 whitish, sometimes reddish-tinged with some dark-fuscous 

 scales ; a dark-fuscous subdorsal dot before middle, another 

 before tornus, and traces of a dark-fuscous line between 

 this and apex ; a terminal series of dark-fuscous dots ; 

 •cilia ochreous-whitish. Hind wings grey ; in 9 whitish ; 

 •cilia whitish. 



Type in Coll., Turner. 



