128 AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA (PYRALIDiE). 



Type in Coll., Turner. My second example is in the- 

 British Museum. 



X.Q. Kuranda, near Cairns, in October ; two specimens- 

 received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Cbyptoblabes alphitias, n. sp. 



rJAc^/ra, barley- meal. 



9 12 mm. Head, palpi, antenna?, thorax, and 

 abdomen grey. Legs white irrorated with grey ; tarsi 

 grey with white annulations. Forewings narrow, somewhat 

 dilated posteriorly, apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded ;. 

 fuscous-grey, towards costa broadly irrorated with white ; 

 a fuscous line from costa before middle to dorsum beyond, 

 middle, interrupted beneath costa ; two fuscous discal dots 

 at |, placed transversely, sometimes connected ; a 

 whitish line at f: parallel to termen, preceded by a fuscous 

 line obsolete towards costa ; a terminal series of fuscous 

 dots ; cilia pale-grey with white points. Hindwings 

 whitish ; veins outlined in grey ; cilia whitish. 



Type in Coll., Turner. 



N.Q. Kuranda, near Cairns, in October ; one specimen: 

 received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



CrYPTOBLABES HEMIGYPSA, 71. sp. 



7lfx(.yvif/o<;, half-chalky. 



(J 9 14-17 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax 

 whitish-grey. Abdomen grey towards apex in ^ whitish.. 

 Legs whitish irrorated with grey, and sometimes also with 

 reddish. Forewings narrow- elongate, posteriorly slightly 

 dilated, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, termen 

 obliquely rounded ; pale grey, costa half broadly irrorated 

 or suffused with white, sometimes also with some reddish 

 scales ; a fuscous sub-costal spot at ^^ sometimes indistinct ; 

 two fuscous discal dots at f, placed transversely ; an ill- 

 defined fuscous transverse line at ;':, parallel to termen, 

 sometimes a similar sub- terminal line ; a terminal series 

 of fuscous dots ; cilia pale-grey, apices white. Hindwings 

 thinly scaled, whitish ; veins and margins outlined with. 

 grey ; cilia whitish. 



Type in Coll., Turner. 



Q. Brisbane, in August, September, and November ; 

 four specimens. 



