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lines of dark fuscous irroration. Hindwings with 3 and 4 

 often stalked or even sometimes coincident, 5 approximated 

 at base to 4 or even connate; grey, ligiiter towards base: cilia 

 light grey. 



Sydney, Bathurst, Murrurundi, and Glen Innes (4,500 

 feet). New South Wales; Campbelltown, Tasmania; in No- 

 vember and December, ten specimens. This obscure, narrow- 

 winged species of the sirrella group is curious on account of 

 the variable neuration of hindwings ; but since some specimens 

 are quite normal, it cannot be generically separated, and the 

 resulting enlargement of characters does not affect my tabula- 

 tion or render the genus less distinct. 



Ptochosaris, n. g. 



Head with loosely appressed hairs ; tongue developed. 

 Antennse ^, in male moderately ciliated (1), basal joint mode- 

 rate, without pecten. Labial palpi moderately long, slightly 

 curved, subascending, second joint with loose, rough, project- 

 ing tuft of scales towards apex beneath, terminal joint less 

 than half second, slender, acute. Posterior tibiae clothed with 

 long hairs above. Forewings with 2 from angle, abruptly 

 curved, 3 absent, 4 approximated, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to ter- 

 meu, 11 from middle. Hindwings |, ovate-lanceolate, cilia 2 ; 

 A absent, 5 somewhat approximated to 3, 6 and 7 parallel. 



Allied to Saropla, of which it is a degraded development, 

 with similar palpi, but differing in the reduced neuration, and 

 absence of basal pecten of antennae. 



Pforho'^ans horrenda , n. sp. 



Male, 10-11 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and 

 abdomen fuscous, mixed with whitish. Forewings broad- 

 lanceolate, acute ; fuscous mixed with whitish. Hindwings 

 grey. 



Blackheath, New South Wales ; Mount Lofty, South x\us- 

 tralia ; in October, two specimens. This is a most obscure and 

 insignificant-looking insect. 



-^OLOCOSMA, Meyr. 

 This genus must certainly be transferred to the CEcophO' 

 rifhf", and will equally certainly be placed amongst the Philn- 

 botides, but its exact position in that group is not so obvious. 

 On a strict interpretation of structure, it appears to be nearest 

 to Ori/fJierfa, and it may be placed in the neighbourhood of 

 that genus until more profound research or the discovery of 

 new material discloses its true affinity. To the two species 

 originally described I now add a third, but as it is closely 

 related to one of them it does not help the situation. 



