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neath costa at two-thirds, continued I'ound, and parallel to hind- 

 margin above anal angle, the one on the angulation being the 

 longest ; a fine black hindmarginal line ; cilia grey, tips whitish. 

 Hindwings and cilia dark-coppery-fuscous. 



Parkside. One specimen. Certainly allied to Gel. loxodesma^ 

 Meyr., of which it may prove to be a variety, but it is such a 

 ditfierent-looking insect (especially in the hindwings) that I have 

 decided to give it a distinctive name. 



Gelechia centrosema, n. sp. 



Male and female, 12 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax 

 golden-ochreous-brown, sides of thorax whitish, face whitish 

 palpi whitish internally. Legs grey-whitish, anterior pair in- 

 fuscated externally. Abdomen dark-fuscous, anal tuft whitish. 

 Forewings narrow, costa hardly arched, apex somewhat pointed, 

 hindmargin extremely obliquely rounded ; golden-ochreous ; costa 

 very narrowly whitish throughout ; a well-defined straight 

 whitish-ochreous median streak from base to apex, anteriorly 

 attenuated, margined beneath with darker ground-colour ; cilia 

 dark-fuscous. Hindwings fuscous ; cilia light fuscous, lighter on 

 costa. 



Three specimens, Gisborne, from Mr. G. Lyell, jun. 



POGONIAS EURYPLACA, n. Sp. 



Male, 10 mm. Head, antennae, palpi, and legs dark-fuscous ; 

 tarsi obscurely ringed with whitish, terminal joint of palpi with 

 four whitish rings. Antennae somewhat annulated with white. 

 Thorax ochreous-white, patagia more ochreous with a quadrate- 

 fuscous spot posteriorly. Abdomen blackish, anal tuft yellowish. 

 Forewings narrow, lanceolate, blackish ; an ochreous - white 

 subquadrate patch on inner margin beyond middle, three obscure 

 tufts of blacker scales placed triangularly, first on anterior 

 portion of patch, second obliquely above, third near base ; 

 cilia dark -fuscous, with a few grey scales. Hindwings lanceolate, 

 fuscous ; cilia greyish. 



One specimen from Banksia marginata, at Highbury, January 

 26, 1893. 



XYLOKYCTID^. 

 Ckyptopiiaga aglaodes, n. sp. 



Female, 50 mm. Head, antennae, thorax and palpi white, 

 second joint internally black at base. Legs whitish, tarsi ringed 

 with black. Abdomen whitish ; second segment l^roadly orange- 

 red, others anteriorly sutlused with fuscous. Forewings moderate, 

 oblong, costa gently arched, apex rounded, hindmargin rather 

 oblique; 2 from three-fourths; pale whitish-ochreous, slightly 

 infuscated ; costa towards apex slenderly blackish ; a small 



