134 AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA (PYRALID.*). 



apex round-pointed, termen bowed, oblique ; brown-whitish 

 mixed and suffused with fuscous ; a tuft of dark-fuscous 

 scales on middle third of dorsal margin ; basal part of 

 disc suffused with fuscous ; a large raised sub-costal 

 tuft of dark-fuscous scales at h, and a second smaller 

 beyond middle ; a fuscous line from first tuft to | dorsum, 

 preceded by a pale line ; a fuscous line from | costa 

 obliquely outwards, then acutely angled inwards and 

 finely wavy to dorsum before tornus ; a dark-fuscous 

 terminal line ; cilia brown- whitish with two dark lines. 

 Hindwings with termen rounded, slightly wavy : grey, 

 towards base paler ; cilia pale-grey. 



Type in Coll., Turner. 



X.Q. Kuranda near Cairns, in December ; two specimens 

 received from Mr. F. P. Dodd, of w hich one is in the British 

 Museum. 



Gen. SIALOCYTTAHA, nov. 



aLa\oKVTT(if)<}<i, with greasy cell. 



Tongue well-developed. Palpi ascending, appressed 

 to frons, much exceeding vertex ; posterior aspect of terminal 

 joint and of apex of second joint clothed with long hairs, 

 which in ^ form dense tufts ; second joint in ^ dilated 

 to receive the brush-like maxillary palpi. Antenna^ of rj 

 with fascicles of moderately long cilia , no process from 

 basal joint. Thorjix with a small post-median crest. 

 Forewings of ^ with cell on underside covered by modified 

 greasy-looking scales, terminal area of wing abbreviated, 

 and veins short ; 7, 8, 9 stalked. Hindwings broad ; in ^J 

 with modified scales along costa beneath ; 4 and 5 connate 

 or short-stalked, 7 closely approximated to 8, not anastom- 

 osing. 



Xear Ileterohtla, Turn., but with peculiarly tufted 

 palpi, and in ^ with modified scale-areas and truncated 

 .forewings. 



SlALOCYTTARA ERASTA, 71. Sf. 

 iljaaro^, beloVCd. 



(5 28 mm. Head and palpi white mixed with dark- 

 green. Antennae ochreous-whitish ; ciliations 2. Thorax 

 white mixed with dark-green and reddish- brown ; a central 



