BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER, M.D., F.E.S. 157 



Myriostephes ARGYPHEA, ?i. sp, 



a/>yj;^€os, silver- white. 



(^9 12 mm. Head dark-fuscous. Palpi 2 ; dark- 

 fuscous. Antennae pale-fuscous ; in $ serrate and minutely 

 •ciliated. Thorax dark-fuscous; patagia snow-white. 

 Abdomen pale-ochreous. Legs dark-fuscous ; middle tarsi 

 with slender whitish annulations ; posterior pair whitish ; 

 posterior tarsi beneath fuscous barred with whitish. Fore- 

 wings triangular, costa gently arched, more strongly in 9 , 

 a-pex round-pointed, termen bowed, oblique ; snow-white ; 

 A dark-fuscous streak on costa to middle ; a broad median 

 iascia, its costal half dark-fuscous, dorsal half orange- 

 ochreous ; a broad sub-terminal orange-ochreous fascia, 

 suffused with dark-fuscous towards apex, bounded by a 

 finely waved dark-fuscous line ; a white dot on costa before 

 apex ; a white streak on termen, but terminal edge fuscous ; 

 cilia ochreous. Hindwings grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish, 

 tipped with grey at apex. 



This and the two following species are closely allied, 

 but distinct. 



Type in Coll., Turner. 



X.A. Port Darwin, in February and March ; two 

 specimens received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Myriostephes cataxia, n. sp. 

 KttTtt^tog, of good worth. 



^ 9-10 mm. Head white. Palpi 2 J ; dark-fuscous ; 

 inner aspect of maxillary palpi white. Antennae fuscous- 

 M'hitish ; in ^ slightly serrate and minutely ciliated. 

 Thorax white ; patagia crossed by a pale fuscous bar. 

 Abdomen whitish. Legs dark-fuscous with white annula- 

 tions ; posterior pair except tarsi whitish. Forewings 

 triangular, costa nearly straight, apex rounded, termen 

 slightly bowed, slightly oblique ; snow-white with pale 

 ochreous-fuscous fasciae ; first fascia sub-basal, slender, 

 expanded at extremities, with a blackish dot on middle 

 of posterior margin ; second fascia at J, broad, its anterior 

 edge partly outlined with blackish ; third fascia at *, broad 

 with very irregular margins, enclosing a white dot on costa, 

 its anterior edge partly outlined with blackish, its posterior 

 edge giving off a, process to mid- termen ; a sub- terminal 



