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A variable species. The above description is taken from ten 
specimens, all males, of which scarcely two are exactly alike. 
They include two well-marked varieties ; in (1) the costal triangle 
is very well marked, and there is an equally distinct fuscous line 
along central half of inner-margin, discal dots and posterior line 
are obsolete, the latter being represented by a conspicous blackish 
spot above anal angle; in (2) the disc and more especially its 
basal portion are extensively suffused with fuscous, and an in- 
wardly concave fuscous shade unites the two extremities of the 
posterior line. 
In the narrow forewings it resembles V. apora, Meyr., from 
which it may be distinguished by the somewhat ochreous-tinged 
forewings. From other species it may also be distinguished by 
the absence of any basal patch or fascia (except in conjunction 
with a general fuscous suffusion). The long antennal ciliations 
of the male are also a point of distinction. Brisbane; not un- 
common. 
Puitopota, Meyr. 
This large genus is conspicuously poorly represented in the 
neighbourhood of Brisbane. I am able to record the following :— 
P. chionoptzra, Meyr.; P. pruinosa, Meyr.; P. adaptatella, Walk.; 
P. xanthiella, Walk.; P. fascialis, Fab.; P. tentatella, Walk.; P. 
melanoploca, Meyr.; P. pulverea, Meyr. 
Three additional species have been taken on Stradbrooke 
Island :—P. irruptella, Z.; P. chrysopotama, Meyr.; P. pretio- 
sella, Walk. 
Meyrick records P. erebodes, Meyr., and P. calamea, Meyr., 
from Toowoomba. 
PHILOBOTA XIPHERES, 2. sp. 
Male, 19-20 mm. Head and face white, very faintly ochreous- 
tinged. Palpi, antenne, and thorax white. Abdomen whitish- 
grey. Legs whitish-ochreous. Forewings moderate, not dilated, 
costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin very 
obliquely rounded; snow-white; a fuscous streak along costa 
almost to apex, attenuated at base and extremity; cilia 
white. Hindwings and cilia grey. 
Closely resembles the male of 2. chionoptera, Meyr, but may be 
at once distinguished by the much darker hindwings. Brisbane ; 
two specimens. 
PHILOBOTA LONCHOTA, 2. sp. 
Male, 18 mm. Head, face, and thorax ochreous. Palpi ant- 
erlorly and externally fuscous, posteriorly and internally ochreous. 
Antenne fuscous. Abdomen ochreous. Legs ochreous ; anterior 
and middle tibiz and tarsi fuscous. Forewings moderate, not 
dilated, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin 
