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fuscous. Thorax white, shoulders, inner edge of patagia, and 

 two posterior marks fuscous. Abdomen whitish, with dorsal 

 series of ferruginous patches. Forewings elongate, narrowed 

 anteriorly, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, ter- 

 men slightly sinuate, oblique ; white ; all veins marked with 

 fine fuscous lines mixed posteriorly with blackish ; three pale 

 fuscous longitudinal streaks, first from base beneath costa to 

 costa beyond middle, extending along it to near apex, second 

 median, from base to apex, united with first at base, finely 

 edged with dark fuscous beneath on basal third, and above 

 from i to I, third less marked, subdorsal, from near base to 

 near tornus ; ijidications of faint pale fuscous streaks between 

 veins towards tornus : cilia white, with two light fuscous 

 lines. Hindwings whitish-grey: cilia whitish, with two faint 

 fuscous lines. 



Blackheath, New South Wales : Melbourne, Victoria : 

 Mount Lofty, South Australia : in November, three speci- 

 mens. 



Thudaca, Walk. 

 On account of the scales of the crown being drawn up 

 into a raised tuft I formerly classed this genus with the 

 Tineidce, but am now satisfied that its real position is here; the 

 neuration is typically CEcophoricJ, and the tendency to a rais- 

 ed tuft is found in some of the allied genera, such as Pedois; 

 the peculiar pupa, as noted above, is also clear evidence. I 

 described thirteen species, and no new ones have since been 

 discovered. 



Ethmia, Hb. 

 This name must be used instead of Fsecadia, Hb. The 

 Australian species referred to by Dr. Turner and myself as 

 hilnrella, Walk., is not the true Itdarella, but must be known 

 as exhddrella, Durr. ; the two species are extremely similar in 

 the female sex, but very different in the male : the true hilar - 

 eJIa is a larger species, and the male has the hindwings mostly 

 black, and clothed with rough hairs on the lower surface. 



Pholeutis, n. g. 

 Head with appressed hairs ; tongue developed. Anteunge 

 1, in male simple, basal joint moderate, without pecten. La- 

 bial palpi moderate, curved, ascending, second joint with ap- 

 pressed scales, not reaching base of antennae, terminal joint 

 shorter than second, acute. Posterior tibiae clothed with long 

 hairs. Forewings with lb furcate, 2 from 4, 7 to costa, 8 

 absent, 11 from middle. Hindwings under 1, elongate-ovate, 

 cilia 1 ; 3 and 4 connate, 5-7 parallel. 



