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a short basal pectination, apparently sometimes absent. Anten- 

 nae of female with much shorter bipectinations than those of th'^ 

 male, the longest of these twice as long- as the space between 

 itself and the next following. Anterior wings dull l3lack, purple- 

 tmged in some lights, shorter and broader in the male, more 

 pointed and with very oblique termen in the female; cilia black 

 or blackish fuscous. Hind wings dark fuscous, greyish tingcJ, 

 cilia long, dark fuscous. Abdomen black, no pale anal tufts in 

 female. 



HAB. Cairns, Queensland; abundant on a Jassid on Termi- 

 nalia. 



Hetcropsyche, gen. nov. 



Differs from Palaeopsyche in that vein 9 of forewings is ab- 

 sent, vein 4 of hindwings is present. 7 being al:)sent. (PI. fig. i). 

 Type H. melanochroiiia. 



The species of this genus are closely allied and difificult. The 

 material at my disposal consists mostly of specimens that were 

 allowed to die a natural death, since we wished to obtain eggs 

 to send to the islands for economic purposes. They are there- 

 fore much abraded and practically useless for study of characters 

 other than structural. However, either one or two examples of 

 each species were killed while in fresh condition, and these serv- 

 ed for the following descriptions. For the separation of the spe- 

 cies, I have in the table used chiefly the number of pectinations 

 of the male antennae, which appear constant in all the exaniples 

 of the one species that was examined in numbers, in which 1 

 counted them. Apart from this, however, all differ in details of 

 coloration. Koebele under number 2358 records that he found 



1 species of Epipyrops on some 17 species of leaf-hoppers, Jassid 

 and Fulgorid. 1 think it probable that had material of these been 

 saved in good condition, there would have proved to have been 

 several species of the moths under this number. 



SYNOPSIS OF SPECIES. 

 MALES. 



I. (4) Antennae with 12 pectinations on the inner side, not 

 counting one formed by the bifid apex. 



2 (3) Forewings more or less variegated; cilia of hind wings 



mostly white H. poccilochronia 



