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A confusedly-marked species, belonging to the turbatella 

 group, but distinguished from all near allies by the pale hind- 

 wings. 



SPHYRELATA, Meyr. 



Sphyrelata MELANOLEUCAi Meyx. 

 Gelechia microspiloplaca, Low., Trans. E,oy. Soc., S. Austr., 

 1894, 106, is a synonjon of this. 



ACOLASTA, n. g. 



Head smooth-scaled ; tongue developed. Antennae three- 

 fourths, in male serrulate, shortly ciliated (^), basal joint 

 moderate, with slight pecten. Labial palpi very long, re- 

 curved, second joint thickened with appressed scales, terminal 

 joint as long as or shorter than second, slender, acute. Pos- 

 terior tibise clothed with long line hairs above. Forewings : 



2 from very near angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex, 11 from 

 middle of cell. Hind wings (1), elongate-ovate, cilia two^thirds, 



3 and 4 connate. 



This and the six following genera form an associated group 

 (to which also the large European genus Depressaria and its 

 allies belong), which may be regarded as a development of the 

 Borkhausenia group. The antennae are simple or very shortly 

 ciliated in the male, and vein 7 of the forewings terminates in 

 the costa or apex. 



Type A. scolia. 



ACOLASTA PACHNIAS, U. Sp. 



Female, 18 mm. Head and thorax white, finely irrorat-ed 

 with dark fuscous. Palpi white, second joint dark fuscous 

 on basal half and a subapical ring. Abdomen grey. Fore- 

 wings elongate, rather narrow ; costa moderately arched, apex 

 round-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; white, finely 

 irr orated with fuscous and dark fuscous, with fine blackish 

 streaks between veins ; stigmata small, blackish, plical rather 

 beyond first discal ; cilia whitish, sprinkled and barred with 

 dark fuscous. Hindwings rather dark grey, lighter towards 

 base ; cilia grey-whitish, suffused with fuscous towards base. 



Duaringa, Queensland, in October (G. Barnard) ; one speci- 

 men. Characterised by the distinct black stigmata, and 

 darker hindwings. 



AcOLASTA SCOLIAy n. Sp'. 



Male and female, 18-20 mm. Head whitish, crown dark 

 fuscous except on sides. Palpi white, second joint dark fus- 

 cous above. Thorax white, with blackish dorsal and prae- 



