156 AUSTRALIAN EEPIDOPTERA (PYRALID^). 



Legs white ; anterior femora and tibiae ferruginous-fuscous^^ 

 Fore wings triangular, costa staight to near apex, apex 

 round-pointed, termen bowed, oblique ; 10 separate but 

 very closely approximated to 8, 9 ; whitish- yellow with 

 an oily gloss ;- a ferruginous costal streak from base to *, 

 extreme costal edge dark-fuscous to same extent ; thre& 

 dark-fuscous dots, first sub -costal at J touching costal streak, 

 second on dorsum at |, third in middle of disc at lower 

 angle of cell ; a crimson terminal band edged by a dark- 

 fuscous line acutely indented on vein 4 ; within band is a 

 suffuvsed «'ibterminal fuscous line, beyond which termert 

 is pale-crimson with darker interneural dots ; cilia yellow, 

 apices paler. Hind wings with termen well rounded ; white, 

 semitranslucent ; a median crimson spot on termen bounded 

 by a dark-fuscous line except costally, where it is continued 

 by a pale-fuscous band nearly to apex ; cilia white, bases 

 on apical half of wing yellowish. 



Allied to N: fessalis, Swin. 



Type in Coll., Turner. 



N.A. Port Darwin, in September and November ;. 

 three specimens received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Myriostephes xuthosptla, n. sp.. 



$ovBo<rirtXo^f tawny-spottcd. 



(J 9 12-13 mm. Head orange- ochreous ; face dark- 

 fuscous. Palpi 2, dfU'k-fuscous ; beneath whitish- ochreous^ 

 from base to middle of second joint. Antennae dark-fuscous ; 

 ciliations in ^ minute. Thorax dark-fuscous. Abdomen 

 yellow-ochreous ; bases of segments dark-fuscous on 

 dorsum. Legs dark-fuscous annulated with whitish- ochreous ;, 

 posterior j^air whitish- ochreous. Forewings triangular,, 

 costa straight, slightly arched towards a})ex, apex round- 

 pointed, termen nearly straight, moderately oblique ; 

 blackish-fuscous with orange-ochreous spots ; ai sub-basaL 

 spot on dorsum extending | across disc ; a rather large 

 roundish spot on mid-dorsum ; a triangular spot on costa 

 at f ; a smaller spot on tornus, more or less confluent with 

 a spot just above it ; cilia blackish -fuscous. Hindwings^ 

 and cilia dark-fuscous. 



Type in Coll., Turner. 



N.A. Port Darwin, in December and March ; two^ 

 specimens received from Mr, F. P. Dodd.. 



