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Descriptions of New Species of Lepi- 

 doptera (cecophorid-^). 



By E. Meyrick, B.A., F.Z.S. 



[Read July 1, 1902.] 



When I issued my paper on Australian CEcophoridce, (Proc. 

 Linn. Soc, N.S.W., 1882-1888) I excluded from consideratdO]:^ 

 certain small groups of genera which I at that time thought 

 capable of being maintained as separate families. Subse- 

 quent investigations have led me (as shown in my "Handbook 

 of British Lepidoptera) to prefer to treat them as more or les:^ 

 aberrant (portions of the same family, and I, therefore, now 

 describe the Australian genera and species of those groups, 

 and also take the opportunity of dealing at the same time 

 with some undescribed species of the other genera of the 

 family, with which I have become acquainted since the pub- 

 lication of my paper. In addition to these, Mr. O. Lower 

 and Dr. A. J. Turner have described a considerable number 

 of fresh species, of many of which I possess types through 

 the liberality of these gentlemen. Of these I will only say 

 at present that they ajppear to me to be in general well 

 grounded and efficiently described. 



The order of genera here followed is that which (in accord- 

 ance with the principles of my handbook) I should now use 

 to express their affinities. My views on the affinities them- 

 selves have undergone little change, the difference being one 

 of the mode of expression only. 



MACH^EITIS, Meyr. 



MACHiERITIS PELINOPA, n. Sp. 



Male, 11-13 mm. Head and thorax pale whitish-ochreous. 

 Palpi ochreous- whitish, second joint externally sprinkled 

 with dark fuscous. Antennse ochreous-whitish, ringed with 

 dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs dark fus- 

 cous, ringed with ochreous-whitish, hairs of posterior tibiae 

 pale whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa 

 moderately arched, a(pex pointed, termen very obliquely 

 rounded; whitish-ochreous, more or less irrorated with fus- 

 cous (in one specimen very slightly); cilia pale whitish- 

 ochreous, towards base sprinkled with fuscous. Hindwings 

 grey, lighter anteriorly; cilia whitish-grey-ochreous. 



