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G. OPHIODES, . sp. 
8 mm. Head and face white. Maxillary palpi minute, white. 
Labial palpi white; second joint with an apical, terminal joint 
with a median fuscous ring. Antenne longer than forewings, 
whitish at base, gradually becoming dark fuscous. Thorax white ; 
shoulders pale ochreous-fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous. Legs 
fuscous ; posterior tibiz and bases of all tarsal joints white ; 
middle tibie not thickened. Forewings pale ochreous-fuscous ; a 
broad white line, black-margined in disc, along inner margin 
from base to middle, whence it proceeds obliquely outwards to 
middle of costa; an elongated white blotch on inner margin, 
ending abruptly at anal angle where it is thickened to reach more 
than half across disc, partially black-margined ; a black line along 
posterior half of costa; a white spot on hindmargin above anal 
angle ; costal cilia ochreous-fuscous, at apex white, with a trans 
verse black bar and black apices, thence whitish. Hindwings 
and cilia dark grey. 
Very distinct by the basal white line. Brisbane; one speci- 
men on a fence in September. 
ORNIX, Z. 
I am indebted to Mr. Meyrick for the identification of this 
genus, which is new to Australia. It may be distinguished from 
Gracilaria, which the species described closely resembles, by the 
long forwardly directed tuft of scales on the head. 
ORNIX AUSTRALIS, 2. sp. 
9-10 mm. Head with long tufted scales white above, fuscous 
on inferior aspect. Face, labial, and maxillary palpi white. 
Antenne longer than forewings, dark fuscous. Thorax white, 
shoulders fuscous-grey. Abdomen dark fuscous. Legs whitish ; 
anterior and middle femora and tibiz, and posterior femora with 
longitudinal fuscous stripes; posterior tibie whitish; tarsi 
whitish on inferior surface, on superior surface fuscous, except 
apices of each joint which are pure white. Forewings fuscous- 
grey ; a narrow white streak along costa from base to four-fifths ; 
a broad white line along inner and hindmargin. At anal angle 
this broadens to one-half breadth of wing, and contains a narrow 
fuscous-grey streak, internal to which are a few scattered fuscous- 
grey scales Sometimes this streak is continuous with ground 
color posteriorly. An outwardly oblique, narrow, black-margined, 
white streak, from costa at four-fifths, not quite reaching hind- 
marginal line ; a second white streak, anteriorly black-margined, 
just before apex, parallel to first ; cilia on costa fuscous,at apex 
pure white, with a transverse black line, then a black suoapical 
hook, beneath this again pure white, then fuscous to anal angle. 
Hindwings and cilia dark-grey. 
