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Descriptions of Ne^w Migro-Lepidoptera 

 FROM Queensland. 



By A. Jefferis Turner, M.D. 



[Read October 4, 1898.] 



PLUTELLID.E. 



I deal here only with the forms generally known as Hypono- 

 mentidcs and Glyphipterygidtr, which are included with the 

 PlutellidcB by Mr. Meyrick in his recent work on British 

 Lepidoptera. But few species are as yet known from this part 

 of Australia, and T have but small addition to make to our 

 knowledge. The genus GlyphiiJteryx^ in particular, is much 

 better represented in the southern part of the Continent. 



HyponOxMENTa, Latreille. 

 I have two species referable to this genus, a definition of which 

 may be found in Mr. Meyrick's work mentioned above. One with 

 grey fore wings bears the manuscript name of H. pauroce titer a^ 

 Meyr., the second I describe as new. 



Hypoxomenta paurocentera, Meyr. (]MS.). 

 Brisbane and Warwick, Queensland. 



HyponOx^ienta myriosema, n. sp. 

 Male, 22-28 mm. Head white. Palpi white ; apex of second 

 a.nd middle of terminal joint annulated with black. AntenniB 

 white, becoming dark-grey towards apex. Thorax white, with 

 two black dots iDefore middle and one at posterior apex ; patagia 

 white, with a small black dot on anterior margin. Abdomen 

 dark-fuscous ; apices of segments and tuft white. Legs white, 

 with black annulations round apices of tarsal joints and tibiae ; 

 anterior femora and tibiae black on internal surface ; black dots 

 on middle and base of external surface of anterior and middle 

 tibias ; and on apex of middle femora. Forewings elongate 

 slightly dilated posteriorly, costa moderately arched, apex 

 rounded, hindmargin straight, slightly oblique ; snow-white, 

 with numerous black dots ; one at base ; six on basal two-fifths 

 of costa ; three to five beneath, but not on apical portion of costa ; 

 two rows in disc beneath centre of four to six each, that over 

 anal angle slightly larger ; two to five along hindmargin, some- 

 times partly fused ; cilia snow-white, sometimes partly fuscous 



