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Section SARROTIIRIPIN^. 



Sarrothripa baeopts, n. sp. 



fBfdnjyix. of insignificant appearance.) 



Male, 13 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax grey. [Antennae 

 broken.] Abdomen pale oclireous, partly suffused with grey 

 on dorsum. Legs grey-whitish. Forewings oblong, costa 

 straight except at base and apex, apex rounded, termen 

 obliquely rounded ; grey : with three fine transverse fuscous 

 lines ; first from J dorsum, obsolete towards costa : second from 

 § costa, describing a strong sigmoid curve and ending on mid- 

 dorsum : third from f dorsum first inwardly then outwardly 

 curved, obsolete towards costa : a terminal row of fuscous 

 dots : cilia grey. Hindwings with termen rounded : ochreous- 

 whitish : towards termen broadly fuscous ; cilia fuscous. 



Type in Coll.. Turner. 



N.Q., Thursday Island ; one specimen. 



Section NOCTUIN^. 



Crioa lophosoma, n. sp. 



( Loplhosomos, with crested body.) 



Male, 24 mm. Head, thorax, and palpi grey-whitish, 

 irrorated with dark fuscous. Antennae ochreous-fuscous : in 

 male with rather long pectinations (2J), apical ^ simple, each 

 pectination with a terminal, bristle of equal length. Abdomen 

 whitish, densely irrorated with fuscous ; fuscous crests on first, 

 third, fourth, and fifth segments, that on fourth specially 

 large. Legs whitish, with some fuscous irroration, more on 

 forelegs : fore-tibiae annulated with fuscous. Forewings tri- 

 angular, costa rather strongly arched, apex rounded, termen 

 bowed, oblique, crenulate ; grey- whitish mixed with fuscous ; 

 markings darker fuscous : a short line from costa near base, 

 bent in disc at a right angle and continued to base : a slightly 

 dentate line from J costa to J dorsum : a line from beneath 4 

 costa towards tornus, forming a large loop extending ^ across 

 disc and ending beneath ^ costa : from anterior aspect of loop 

 is a line to | dorsum ; a small sub-apical fuscoiis shade : a ter- 

 minal fusoous line ; cilia pale fuscous. Hindwings with ter- 

 men rounded, slightly crenulate : whitish ; terminal third suf- 

 fused with fuscous; cilia whitish, obscurely interrupted with 

 fuscous. 



Typ*^ in Coll., Tnrner. 



Q.. Brisbane, in September: one specimen, 



ACANTHOLIPES CONTOCHROA, n. Sp. 



fCon'wchroos, dust-coloured.) 

 Female, 26-30 mm. Head, browni-whitish : face and palpi 



