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Phycita deltophora, n. sp. 



Male, 25 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and abdomea 

 €inereous-grey, palpi ferruginous at apex. Legs silvery- 

 whitish, mixed and banded with fuscous. Forewings elongate, 

 moderate, costa rather strongly arched, termen oblique ; cine- 

 reous-grey, finely irrorated with dark fuscous; an elongate, 

 somewhat cuneiform reddish-fuscous fascia from one^third costa 

 to one-third innermargin, slightly oblique, edged on sides with 

 a dentate black line ; and rather broadly posteriorly with a 

 whitish fascia, sharply defined anteriorly, posteriorly suffused 

 with a short angulated line in middle on lower half; a dull 

 whitish mark on costa at foui^-fifths, from which proceeds an 

 obscure, slightly outwards whitish curved line of dots to^ inner- 

 margin before anal angle, edged anteriorly with fuscous; a 

 black interrupted line along termen, separated by streaks of 

 dull whitish. Hindwings with termen rounded ; greyish, 

 thinly scaled ; a fijie fuscous line along termen ; cilia greyish, 

 with a fuscous, subterminal line. 



Mackay, Queensland ; one specimen in November. 



Phycita leucomilta, n. ^p. 



Male and female, 28 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, 

 legs, and abdomen reddish-ferruginous, more or less finely irro- 

 rated with bluish-white scales in female. Forewings elongate, 

 moderate, costa moderately arched, termen slightly 

 bowed, oblique ; reddish-ferruginous in female more 

 or less minutely irrorated throughout with bluish- 

 white scales, base of wing ferruginous; a narrow 

 •outwardly fleshy-white narrow fascia, from costa at one- 

 third to innermargin before middle, posteriorly edged by 

 a somewhat cuneiform patch of darker ground color ; a narrow 

 fleshy-white line from costa at four-fifths to innermargin before 

 aoial angle, strongly- curved outwards in middle, edged on upper 

 third by a patch of darker ground color ; a lighter patch of 

 ground color just before this ; a row of small black spots along 

 termen ; all m.arkings in female obliterated by general ground 

 color; cilia fleshy-red, with a clear whitish median line. Hind- 

 wings greyish-ochreous ; cilia ochreous, basal half reddish. 



Not unlike Euzophera pyin-Jioptera, Lower, but the palpi 

 make it easy of separation from that species. 



Mackay, Queensland ; two specimens in October. 



Nephopteryx orthozona, n. s,p. 



Female, 20 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and legs cinereous- 

 grey, basal joint of palpi fuscous. Abdomen greyish-ochreous. 



