500 Mr. E. Meyrick on some 



Phelotis, n. g. 



Face with appressed scales. Tongue developed. Antennae in S' 

 bipectinated, towards apex filiform. Palpi moderate, porrected, 

 more or less rough-scaled, terminal joint short or moderate. 

 Thorax hairy beneath. Posterior tibiae in $ more or less dilated. 

 Fore wings in $ with subbasal impression; 10 and 11 stalked or 

 coincident, 10 sometimes connected with 9. Hind wings normal. 



To this genus are referable excursaria, Gn., luxaria, 

 Gn., cognata, Walk., attenta, Walk., palUdiscaria, Walk., 

 and a number of undescribed Australian siDecies. 



117. Phelotis xylinopa, n. s. 



? , 45 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs 

 whitish-ochreous, irrorated with reddish-fuscous. Fore wings with 

 costa almost straight, faintly sinuate, hind margin rounded, 

 oblique, crenulate; pale reddish-fuscous, costa and veins suffused 

 with whitish-ochreous, and irrorated with dark ochreous-fuscous ; 

 an indistinct irregular angulated fuscous line from a snaall dark 

 spot on costa at one-fifth to one-fifth of inner margin ; first and 

 second lines slender, blackish, starting from small spots on costa, 

 hardly perceptibly waved ; first from one-third of costa to one- 

 fourth of inner margin, somewhat curved; second from two-thirds 

 of costa to three-fifths of inner margin, slightly curved, sinuate 

 inwards on submedian fold ; a dark fuscous median line firom a 

 small spot on middle of costa to before middle of inner margin, 

 upper two-thirds strongly curved outwards and indistinct, lower 

 third well-marked, somewhat sinuate ; an indistinct whitish three- 

 lobed discal spot before this, surrounded by a suffusion hardly 

 darker than ground colour ; a suffused pale whitish-ochreous spot 

 between median and second lines above middle ; subterminal 

 cloudy, whitish, dentate, sinuate inwards below middle, above 

 which it is preceded by a cloudy fuscous spot; traces of an 

 indistinct cloudy fuscous shade between second and subterminal 

 lines ; a hind-marginal series of black dots ; ciUa whitish-ochreous 

 mixed with pale reddish-fuscous. Hind wings with hind margin 

 rounded, crenate ; colour, second line, and all posterior markings 

 as in fore wings, but basal half paler and more whitish-tinged ; 

 median line blackish, rather thick, somewhat irregular, nearly 

 straight, at about two-fifths ; discal spot obscure, whitish, sub- 

 crescentic, surrounded by a light reddish-fuscous suffusion, beyond 

 median line ; an indistinct cloudy whitish-ochreous line midway 



