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men very obliquely rounded; fuscous, irregularly sprinkled 

 with whitisli and dark fuscous ; a curved dark fuscous subbasal 

 line ; a cloudy dark fuscous transverse line at one-third, pre- 

 ceded by large ochreous-mixed tufts above and below middle, 

 forming the posterior edge of a circular depression, which \9> 

 pale surrounded with dark fuscous ; two white dots consecu- 

 tively placed in disc beyond middle, and an irregular white 

 transverse bar from disc, beyond middle to dorsum ; a large dis- 

 cal tuft of light ochreous scales beyond this ; a strongly curved 

 ochroous line from a white spot on costa at three-fourths to 

 tornus, lower half spotted with white, preceded and followed 

 by dark fuscous suffusion ; cilia brownish, base sprinkled with 

 dark fuscous. Hindwings fuscous, lighter basally; cilia light 

 brownish. 



Queensland, probably, but locality not recorded (A. Simson) ; 

 one specimen. 



The locality of the only other species of the genus, F. ser- 

 pentinay Meyr., was accidentally omitted from the original de- 

 scription ; I took it at Perth, West Australia, in November. 



TORTRICOPSIS, Newm. 

 This generic name must be adopted in place of Palparia, 

 Wing , the name Palparia was pre-occupied in the Lepidoptera 

 by Ha worth. 



TORTRICOPSIS PYROPTIS, U. sp. 



Male and female, 19-22 mm. Head and thorax red-brown, 

 more or less suffused with ashy-whitish. Palpi dark fuscous 

 irrora'eJ with whitish, lower two-thirds of second joint red- 

 brown, tuft medorate, forming an equilateral triangle, terminal 

 joint longer than second. Abdomen ochreous-yellow, beneath 

 deep'jr ochreous and rosy-tinged. Forewings moderate, sbb- 

 oblong^ costa strongly arched anteriorly, apex obtuse, termen 

 sinuate, rather oblique; red-brown, mixed with grey, and ante- 

 riorly more or less suffused with grey-whitish ; two short fine 

 obiique blackish streaks from costa about one-fourth ; two 

 indistinct blackish-grey dots above middle of disc, appearing 

 a cor.tinuation of the second streak; cilia red-brown, mixed 

 with blackish-grey, extreme tips grey-whitish. Hindwings 

 deep ochreous-yellow, towards apex tinged with brown-reddish 

 and Stprinkled with dark grey ; cilia light brown-reddish mixed 

 with dark grey except towards tornus. 



Brisbane, Queensland ; Melbourne and Healesville, Vic- 

 toria ; in January (J. A. Kershaw, A. J. Turner) ; seven speci- 

 mens. 



Nearest to T. semijunctella, but quite distinct. Mr. Ker- 

 shaw has bred it from Eucalyptus. 



