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thinly scaled ; costal edge pale-fuscous at base, a pale fuscous dot 
in disc near base, and another on inner-margin near base, the 
whole connected by a pale-ochreous suffusion ; a pale-fuscous dot 
on costa at one-third, connected by a pale ochreous suffusion, with 
a pale-fuscous line to inner-margin at one-fourth; a circular 
fuscous spot above middle of disc ; a pale-fuscous dot on costa at 
two-thirds, connected by a pale-ochreous suffusion with a pale- 
fuscous line, which describes a strongly sigmoid curve before 
ending in anal angle ; a very pale fuscous line towards hindmargin, 
darker above anal angle; cilia whitish, above anal angle fuscous. 
Hindwings and cilia whitish. 
A delicate and prettily-marked species. 
Brisbane. 
SCAPHIDRIOTIS, Meyr. (MSS.). 
Tongue well developed. Antennz in male finely and evenly 
ciliated (one and a-half), with a dense tuft of scales on upper 
surface immediately beyond basal joint. Palpi moderate, second 
joint clothed with very long loose hairs, terminal joint short, 
obtuse. Thorax with a posterior crest. Forewings with inner- 
margin strongly folded over beneath ; vein two from two-thirds, 
five absent, eight and nine out of seven. Hindwings with a 
dense patch of scales on upper surface ; vein five absent, six and 
seven long-stalked, eight from one-fourth. 
SCAPHIDRIOTIS XYLOGRAMMA, Meyr. (MSS.). 
Male, 16-17 mm. Head and palpi fuscous. Antenne whitish, 
brownish tinged ; tuft whitish, but portion from which tuft 
arises fuscous. Thorax fuscous ; crest whitish ; apex of patagia 
dark-fuscous. Abdomen fuscous ; tuft whitish. Legs whitish ; 
anterior pair infuscated. Forewings very elongate-triangular, 
costa slightly arched, apex rounded, hindmargin obliquely 
rounded ; whitish, thickly irrorated with brownish-fuscous scales, 
which form more or less distinct markings; a line from one- 
fourth of costa to one-third of inner-margin, sometimes obsolete ; 
a sharply-dentate line from costa at three-fifths to before anal 
angle; a dark spot below middle of disc touching ;this line ; 
series of dark spots along apical-third of costa and hind- 
‘margin ; cilia whitish, on spots bases brownish-fuscous. Hind- 
wings whitish-brown; with a densely scaled brownish-fuscous 
atch above middle; cilia whitish. 
Brisbane ; four specimens. 
PSAPHARACIS, 2x. g. 
Tongue well developed. Antenne in male (unknown). Palpi 
moderate, slender, ascending ; terminal joint moderate, tolerably 
acute. Forewings with costa very strongly arched, hindmargin 
