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to Gelechia. Vein 7 can hardly be said to terminate on costa, 

 more correctly the apex. The stalking of veins 3 and 4 of the 

 hindwings would remove it from the Gelechiada altogether, but 

 as the species partakes very much of the facies of a Gelechia, I 

 place it here until I obtain more material. Superficially it 

 reminds one of the genus Petalanthes, one of the CEcophoridce. 

 One specimen ; Gisborne, Victoria. 



Gelechia desmatra, n. sp. 



Male, 9 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax ochreous- 

 whitish. Abdomen and legs fuscous. Forewings moderate ; 

 costa hardly arched, apex rounded, whitish ; a broad, thick, 

 fuscous, transverse fascia from middle of costa to middle of inner 

 margin, dilated on costa ; two fuscous, more or less elongate, 

 marks on costa beyond this ; apical fourth of wing tinged with 

 fuscous, and becoming darker on hindmargin, and containing a 

 row of small fuscous dots around apex and hindmargin ; cilia 

 ochreous. Hindwings and cilia fuscous. One specimen, Broken 

 Hill, in November. 



Gelechia ombrodes, n. sp. 



Male and female, 10 mm. Head snow-white, palpi white, 

 second joint externally golden ochreous, except apex. Antennae 

 fuscous, with small fine pecten. Ciliations one. Thorax golden 

 ochreous. Abdomen greyish. Legs ochreous brown. Forewings 

 snow-white ; a narrow ochreous brown fascia at base ; a broad 

 ochreous brown transverse fascia from three-quarters of costa to 

 anal angle, slightly dilated on costa and inner-margin, a light 

 ochreous-brown suffusion on apical portion of hindmargin, con- 

 tinued as a fine line along hindmargin to anal angle ; cilia 

 greyish ochreous, becoming darker round anal angle. Hindwings 

 and cilia grey. Two specimens taken at Rockhampton in middle 

 of November. This species will require a new genus. I have 

 not yet sufficient material for dissection, but the neuration of the 

 forewings, so far as can be made out, is as folbws : — Vein one is 

 extremely long furcate, in fact the fork reaches half the length 

 of the cell ; veins two and three are stalked, seven and eight are 

 stalked, seven terminating on costa. The hindwings are normal, 

 excepting that six and seven are extremely short stalked. 



Gelechia micradelpha, n. sp. 



Female, 10 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, legs, and thorax 

 yellow. Posterior legs with a black band on tibiae (abdomen 

 broken). Forewings elongate, moderate, narrow ; costa nearly 

 straight, hindmargin oblique, hardly sinuate beneath apex, 

 orange-yellow ; a small blackish spot on costa at one third from 



