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Sydney, New South Wales ; Melbourne, Victoria ; Deloraine 

 and Hobart, Tasmania ; from October to March, rather common, 



59. Xyl. luteotactella, Walk. 

 {Cryptolechia luteotactella. Walk. 750; C. cognatella, ib. 751.) 

 Both sexes 17-26 mm. Head white, sides of face broadly 

 orange. Palpi orange, terminal joint white. Antennae ochreous- 

 whitish, base orange. Thorax and abdomen white, anal tuft 

 ochreous-tinged. Legs orange, posterior tibise white. Forewings 

 elongate, moderate, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, hind- 

 margin straight, rather oblique ; shining snow-white ; costal edge 

 narrowly orange, sometimes slenderly blackish towards base : 

 cilia white, terminal third orange from below apex to above anal 

 angle. Hindwings grey-whitish, posteriorly suffused with light 

 grey ; cilia white. 



Sydney and Blackheath (3,500 feet), New South Wales ; 

 Melbourne, Victoria ; in November, December, February, and 

 March, common, especially in the larval state. Larva 16-legged, 

 stout, cylindrical with scattered long hairs ; whitish-grey, with 

 subdorsal, spiracular, and subspiracular rows of large circular 

 black spots, two on each segment; second segment ochreous- 

 brown, with similar spots ; head chestnut-brown, shining, fore- 

 head black : feeds on Lamhertico formosa, Hakea acicularis, Per- 

 soonia lanceolata, Banksia latifolia, and probably many of the 

 Froteacecp, making firm broad galleries of silk and refuse amongst 

 twigs, sometimes with a tunnel for retirement in the seed-vessek 

 or midrib of leaves when suitable, gnawing the bark and leaves, 

 in September, October, and December. 



15. Telecrates, n. g. 



Head with ajDpressed hairs ; ocelli absent ; tongue well 

 developed. Antenna? moderate, in male serrulate, very shortly. 

 ciliated (J- J), basal joint moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi 

 very long, recurved, second joint smooth-scaled, terminal joint as 

 long as second or nearly, or rarely only half as long, slender, 

 acute. Maxillary palpi very short, appressed to tongue. Thorax 

 smooth. Abdomen moderate. Posterior tibiae rough^haired 

 above and beneath. Forewings with vein 1 furcate towards 

 base, 2 from |^, 3 from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to hindmargin, 

 11 from middle. Hindwings over 1, trapezoidal, densely haired 

 towards base below middle, \h shortly furcate at base, 3 and 4 

 from a point or short-stalked, 5 tolerably parallel, 6 and 7 from a 

 point or stalked, 8 connected with cell at a point towards base. 



1. Forewings white. 2. 



" not white. 6. 



2. Forewings with dark streaks on all veins. ^"^^y. calliyramma. 



" without dark streaks. 3. 



