BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER, M.D., F.E.S. 159. 



Type in Coll., Turner. 



N.A. Port Darwin, in February ; two specimens received 

 from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Gen. EMPHYLICA, nov. 



e/x^r/\.tK09, of the samc race. 



Frons with a rounded short conical projection. Tongue 

 well-developed. Palpi rather long, porrect, densely clothed 

 with appressed hairs, terminal joint concealed, slightly 

 turned downwards. Maxillary palpi large, triangularly 

 dilated. Neuration normal. Tibiae with outer spurs about 

 half-inner. 



Allied to Myriostephes which it resembles in the tri- 

 angular maxillary palpi, but with a conical frons like that 

 of Loxostege. 



Emphylica xanthocrossa, n. sp. 

 $av6()Kpo(rrro^, vellow-edged, 



9 14 mm. Head pale-ochreous. Palpi orange- ochreous 

 at base white. Antennae fuscous, towards base ochreous. 

 Thorax ochreous ; patagia fuscous ; pectus white. 

 Abdomen fuscous ; base, sides, and tuft ochreous ; beneath 

 whitish- ochreous. Legs whitish- ochreous ; middle pair 

 white ; anterior tarsi with white annulations. Fore wings 

 elongate-triangular, costa straight to near apex, apex 

 round-pointed, termen slightly bowed, rather strongly 

 oblique ; purple-reddish ; a large triangular orange spot 

 on costa beyond middle ; cilia orange. Hindwings whitish- 

 ochreous ; a broad pale-fuscous terminal band ; terminal 

 edge orange except towards tornus ; cilia orange, on fornus 

 pale-fuscous. 



Type in Coll., Turner. 



X. A. Port Darwin, in November and January ; two 

 specimens received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



HeLIOTHELA FLORICOLA, 71. sp. 



Floricolus, flower-haunting. 



^ 10-12 mm. Head blackish. Paljji blackish ; lower 

 surface of second joint except at apex and base of third 

 joint white. Antennae blackish ; ciliations minute. 

 Thorax and abdomen blackish. Legs blackish ; tarsi with 

 obscure whitish annulations. Forewings oblong, posteriorly 



