160 AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA (PYRALIDiE). 



dilated, costa straight, apex rounded, termen bowed, scarcely 

 oblique ; blackish with a few white scales ; a white spot 

 variably developed on J costa reaching half across disc i 

 lines black ; first from J costa to ^ termen, outwardly 

 curved ; second from | costa towards tornus, bent inwards 

 around white spot, and then downwards to | termen ; 

 •cilia blackish, apices whitish. Hind wings blackish ; a pure 

 white spot from mid- costa reaching middle of disc ; some- 

 times also a smaller spot above and external to tornus ; 

 cilia as fore wings. 



9 differs as follows : — 14-16 mm. Hindwings without 

 white spot, but with a few scattered whitish or ochreous 

 scales in disc. 



Types in Coll., Turner. 



N.S.W. Mt. Kosciusko (5000 to 6000 ft.), in March ; 

 a series taken flying in the sunshine and resting on the 

 flower heads of Compositce. 



Fam. PTER0PH0R1D.E. 

 Platyptilia euctimena, n. sp. 

 ciWi/xei'o?, well-built. 



^ 9 24-26 mm. Head brownish. Palpi short (IJ), 

 blender ; brownish, internal surface whitish. Antennae 

 brownish ; ciliations in ^ |. Thorax brownish. Abdomen 

 brownish ; base and under-surtace brown-whitish. Legs 

 fuscous-brown ; tarsi whitish. Forewings pale-brownish 

 with some whitish irroration ; a median fuscous dot at J 

 and two fuscous dots just before cleft ; a short whitish streak 

 •on sub-apical part of costa ; a fine whitish line across costal 

 segment shortly before apex ; cilia brown- whitish, a series 

 X)f basal fuscous dots, one on mid-dorsum, one on dorsum 

 at |, one on tornus, one on apex of dorsal segment, and 

 one on lower angle of costal segment, two fuscous streaks 

 one before last- mentioned dot and one at apex. Hind- 

 wings brown ; cilia pale- grey. 



Type in Coll., Turner. 



N.Q. Kuranda, near Cairns, in June. Q. Brisbane, 

 in May ; Toowoomba, in November. Four specimens of 

 which one is in Coll., Me3n*ick. 



