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New Australian Lepidoptera. 
No. 22. 
By Oswald B. Lower, F.E.S. (Lond.), etc. 
[Read April 4, 1905.] 
PYRALIDINA. 
GALLERIAN^. 
Melissoblaptes disema, n. sp. 
Female, 18 mm. Head, face, and antennae dark fus- 
cous, head sprinkled with whitish. Thorax whitish-grey, 
patagia fuscous. Abdomen and middle legs fuscous, tibiae 
and tarsi ringed with whitish, posterior pair suffusedly whit- 
ish. Abdomen dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, moderate, 
costa nearly straight, arched towards apex, greyish-white, 
minutely and irregularly irrorated wth black scales ; mark- 
ings blackish ; a narrow line along costal edge, from base to 
first line ; a nearly straight, waved, narrow line from costa 
beyond one-third to dorsum at one-third ; a similar line, 
gently curved throughout, from costa at three-quarters to dor- 
sum, before anal angle ; a row of spots along termen and 
apical fourth of costa ; cilia blackish, with a median line of 
black scales. Hindwings somewhat transparent : pale grey- 
ish-fuscous, paler on basal half ; cilia greyish. 
Birchip, Victoria. One specimen ; received from Mr. D. 
Goudie. 
CRAMBIN^. 
Talis cyclosema, Low. 
(Talis cyclosema, Low. Tr.R.S.S.A., p. 158, 1896: 
T. diacentra, Meyr. Tr.E.S., Lond., p. 379, 1897.) 
I have received this species from Balaklava, South Aus- 
tralia, and Birchip (D. Goudie), Victoria. 
Surattha hedyscopa, n. sp. 
Male, female, 18, 24 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax 
ochreous-brown, palpi short. Abdomen ochreous-grey. An- 
tennae strongly bipectinated throughout. Legs white, tibiae 
and tarsi infuscated above, tarsi banded with white ; thorax 
and abdomen white beneath. Forewings elongate, moderate, 
costa gently arched, termen obliquely rounded ; vein 6 ab- 
sent, coincident with 7 : 4 and 5 stalked ; 8 and 9 stalked ; 
ochreous, somewhat irrorated with ferruginous and fuscous ; 
a thick, rather indistinct, irregular, fuscous fascia, from costa 
at one-fifth to dorsum at one-quarter, more prominent on 
lower half ; between this and base the ground colour is mixed 
