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with dense brush of rough projecting scales, terminal joint as- 

 long as second, slender, acute, towards middle thickened in 

 front and behind with projections of rough scales. Thorax 

 with erect crest of scales. Posterior tibiae with dense long 

 hairs above, all tarsi short and stout. Forewings with tufts 

 of raised scales, middle third of costa excavated ; 2 from rather 

 near angle, 4 and 5 connate, 7 and 8 stalked, 11 from middle of 

 cell. Hindwings (1), trapezoidal, cilia one-third; 3 and 4 

 short-stalked. 



A small Indo-Malayan genus of peculiar facies, belonging to 

 the Dei^ressaria group. 



BiNSITTA EFFRACTELLA, Sucll. 



{Cryptolecliia effractella, Snell, Tijd., v., Ent., xxii., ii., pL 

 vii., 17-25 ; Teratomorpha codliota, Turn., Trans. Koy. Soc, S. 

 Austr., 1896, 20.) 



Male, 28 mm. Head pale whitish-ochreous. Palpi whitish, 

 terminal joint with two blackish rings. Forewings oblong, 

 costa roughened with scale-tufts at one-third and two-thirds, 

 termen little oblique, hardly sinuate; pale whitish-ochreous; 

 a trapezoidal dark fuscous blotch, with leaden-metallic reflec- 

 tions, on costa at one-fifth ; two large discal tufts below this, 

 and two others transversely placed before middle, partially 

 brownish-tinged, separated by some dark fuscous scales; some 

 raised spots with silvery-whitish reflection beyond this; some 

 brown and black scales towards costa beyond middle ; two pos- 

 terior angulated series of raised spots with silvery- whitish re- 

 flections, accompanied by a few black scales, last almost ter- 

 minal and transversing a triangular brown apical blotch mixed 

 with black ; cilia brownish, with leaden-metallic reflections. 

 Hindwings pale ochreousr yellow ; a blackish apical dot ; cilia 

 whitish-yellowish, at apex wih two blackish lines. 



Bowen, Queensland ; one sipecimen received from A. Sim- 

 son, and others in the Brisbane Museum. 



CERATOPHYSETIS, Meyr. 



A development of Psecadia, characterised by the peculiar 

 antennae. Dr. Turner mentions that in a better-preserved 

 example the anterior edge of the antennae is fui'nished with a 

 brush of long whitish hairs. 



Ceratophysetis sph^rosticha, Meyi\ 

 (Ceratophysetis sphcerosticha, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc, New 



South Wales, 1886, 1045.) 



I possess a female from Queensland ; in this sex the antennae 



are normal, but otherwise there is no particular difference. 



