classification of the Pterophoridce. 13 



with white, middle pair shari3ly obHquely banded with white. 

 Fore wings cleft from before one-third, segments linear ; silvery- 

 white, with ferruginous markings; a narrow streak along costa 

 throughout; a slender line along inner margin, strongly dilated 

 near base ; a narrow fascia before one-fourth, interrupted below 

 costa ; 1st segment with an interrupted fascia almost at its base, 

 an entire fascia before its middle, and another rather near apex ; 

 2nd segment wholly ferruginous, with a white spot rather near its 

 base, and two white fasciae opposite the two posterior dark fasciae 

 of 1st segment ; cilia pale beneath, on costa ferruginous. Hind 

 wings cleft to base, segments linear; ferruginous-fuscous; cilia 

 light brownish. 



A conspicuously distinct and handsome species. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; one specimen on a fence 

 in September. 



Trichoptilus scytJirodes, n. s. 

 S' ) 2 > 12 — 13 mm. Head and thorax brownish ochreous, more 

 or less mixed with white. Palpi ochreous mixed with white, 

 terminal joint white, with base and apex dark fuscous, 2nd joint 

 reaching middle of face. Antennie whitish, anuulated with dark 

 fuscous, with a blackish line above. Abdomen ochreous, longi- 

 tudinally striated with irregular obscure white and black lines, 

 apex in male with two obliquely ascending divergent hair-pencils. 

 Tibise white, longitudinally striped with black, posterior tibiae with 

 dark fuscous median and apical bauds, all tarsi with broad blackish 

 bands at apex of joints. Fore wings cleft from before middle, seg- 

 ments linear ; brownish ochreous, with scattered dark fuscous 

 scales ; one or two white spots on inner margin, and sometimes a 

 suffused irregular white central streak from base to cleft ; 1st 

 segment suffused with darker fuscous, with a white bar before its 

 middle and another towards apex, sometimes also a white spot at 

 base ; 2nd segment with two corresponding but less distinct white 

 bars : cilia grey, on costa dark grey barred with white o^jposite 

 fasciiE and white at base towards apex, on lower margin of 1st 

 segment mixed with white and with some black scales in middle, 

 on upper margin of 2nd segment with a row of black scales towards 

 middle, on lower margin of 2nd segment with five spots of black 

 scales, first before cleft, last subapical, and two or three white bars, 

 last anal. Hind wings cleft firstly from before one-third, secondly 

 from base, segments linear ; dark fuscous ; ciha grey, 3rd segment 

 with a fringe of white hair-scales on inner margin from base to 

 middle, without black scales. 



