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and more conspicuous than the others, somewhat bent below 

 costa, mixed with black on costa and on lower half of its anterior 

 edge ; third at three-fourths, fainter, often interrupted ; fourth 

 subapical, slender, often mixed with black ; cilia white, with a 

 slender blackish central dividing -line. Hindwings and cilia white. 



This is a peculiarly delicate and fragile-looking little species, 

 and has more the facies of some of the Oecophorida than of a 

 veritable Tortrix, and its markings are equally abnormal. 



Sufficiently common where it occurs, but rather local ; taken 

 near Parramatta, New South Wales, flying gently towards sunset 

 amongst the Eucalyptus bushes in dry grassy places, in September 

 and October. 



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3. PAL^EOTOMA, n. g. 



Thorax smooth. Antennce in male thickened, ciliatod. Palpi 

 long, porrected, second joint somewhat arched, with rather 

 appressed scales, terminal joint very long, naked, horizontal. 

 Eorewings elongate, narrow, surface with raised scales ; costa in 

 male simple, nearly straight, apex rather acute, hindmargin very 

 oblique, rounded. Hindwings elongate, broader than f orewings. 

 Forewings with veins 7 and 8 separate, closely approximated 

 towards their origin. Hindwings with veins 3 and 4 remote at 

 origin and parallel, 5 approximated to 4 at base, 6 and 7 stalked. 



Larva sixteen-legged, producing true galls, inside which it feeds. 



Distinguished from the other genera with veins 3 and 4 of the 

 hindwings remote at origin and 12 veins in the f orewings (except 

 ProselenaJ by the separation of veins 7 and 8 of the forewings ; 

 from Proselena it differs by the elongate palpi, and the approxi- 

 mation of veins 4 and 5 of hindwings at origin. In general 

 facies it somewhat resembles a Sciapliila. It is remarkable as 

 affording an instance of a true gall-producing Tortricideous 

 larva ; and it seems not improbable that some of the allied 

 genera may be found to have a similar larval habit. 



