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XaNTHOPTERA ALBICERIS, 11. sp. 



{Alhiceins, whitish-yellow.) 



Male, 17 mm. Head and palpi ochreous. Antennse grey,. 

 towards base ochreous ; in male moderately ciliated (1) with fine 

 slightly longer bristles. Thorax and alDdomen pale-ochreous. 

 Legs pale-ochreous ; anterior pair grey in front. Forewings 

 triangular, costa slightly arched, apex rounded, termen rounded, 

 slightly oblique ; pale-ochreous without markings ; cilia con- 

 colorous. Hindwings wdth termen slightly sinuate ; pale- 

 ochreous ; cilia concolorous. 



Type in colL Turner. 



North Queensland, Townsville, in May; one specimen received 

 from Mr. F. P. Dodd. Queensland, Peak Downs ; one specimen 

 in British Museum. 



Xanthoptera crocodeta, n. sp. 



{Krokodetos, bound with saffron — in allusion to lines on wings.) 



Male, 24 mm. Head and palpi purplish-grey. Antennae grey, 

 in male shortly ciliated (one-half), with longer bristles (1). Thorax 

 purplish-grey, with a pale-ochreous transverse band behind collar. 

 Abdomen purplish-grey. Legs purplish-grey, posterior pair 

 whitish-ochreous. Forewings triangular, costa scarcely arched, 

 apex round-pointed, termen bowed, oblique ; purplish-grey ; a 

 pale-ochreous costal streak, narrowing to a point at apex ; lines 

 slender, ochreous, not crossing costal streak ; antemedian line 

 straight from beneath one-third costa to one-third dorsum ; a 

 transverse linear faintly darker median discal mark, edged 

 posteriorly with ochreous; postmedian line straight from beneath 

 two-thirds costa to three-fourths dorsum ; subterminal line wavy 

 to vein 5, thence sharply dentate on veins, and ending on tornus ; 

 veins towards termen finely outlined in ochreous ; cilia purplish- 

 grey, intersected bv continuation of ochreous lines on veins. 

 Hindwings with termen rounded ; colour and markings as in 

 forewings, but antemedian line obsolete towards inner margin, 

 and discal mark obsolete. 



Type in coll. Turner. 



Queensland, Brisbane ; one specimen received from Mr. R. 

 Illidge. 



Sandava xylistis. 



Sandava xylistis, Swin., Cat. Oxf. Mus., II., p. 192 (1900). 

 Meyr., Tr. E.S., 1902, p. 37. 

 Type in Oxford Museum. 



Queensland, Brisbane. Victoria, Melbourne. According to 

 Swinhoe, also from Tasmania. 



