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Symphyta, n. g. 



Head with projecting cone of scales. Palpi moderate, not 

 longer than twice breadth of eye, clothed with dense hairs, 

 terminal joint concealed. Thorax and abdomen not crested. 

 Mid and hind tibiae with one pair of minute terminal spurs. 

 Forewings with 2 from near base, 4 and 5 from angle, 6 and 7 

 stalked, 8 to termen, 9 and 10 stalked. Hind wings with 4 

 and 5 stalked (rarely 3, 4, 5 stalked), 7 arising near base of 

 cell and anastomosing with 8, several acessory veinlets. 



May be distinguished from Entometa, Wlk. (Opsirrhiiia, 

 Wlk.) by the shorter palpi, and iromjCallia, Wlk., Sitina, Wlk., 

 and Clathe, Wlk., by the stalking of veins 4 and 5 of hind- 

 wings. 



Type S. psaropis. 



Symphyta psaropis, n. sp. 



Male, 38-40 mm. ; female, 50 mm. Head, palpi, thorax 

 and abdomen whitish-grey. Antennae white; pectinations 

 ochreous-whitish. Legs whitish-grey. Forewings triangular, 

 in female elongate-triangulai', costa s:traight to neai^ apex, apex 

 round-pointed, termen straight, in female slightly rounded, ob- 

 lique ; whitish-grey, thinly irrorated with grey ; a dark fviscous 

 dot in disc at one-third ; cilia white, bases dai^k fuscous, some- 

 times apices also barred with dark fuscous, Hindwings with 

 tennen strongly bowled ; whitish-grey suffused with darker 

 grey, towards inner margin whitish ; cilia whitish with a 

 median dark fuscous line. 



Townsville, Queensland, in January and February ; three 

 specimens received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Symphyta nyctopis, n. sp. 



Male, 35 mm. ; female, 50 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and 

 abdomen fuscous. Antennae whitish-ochreous. Legs fuscous. 

 Forewings triangular, costa straight to near a,pex, apex rounded, 

 termen rounded, oblique ; fuscous ; a dark fuscous spot in disc 

 at one-third ; cilia dark fuscous, aipices barred with white. 

 Hindwings with termen rounded; pale fuscous; cilia fuscous, 

 barred with whitish. 



Townsville, Queensland, in February and June; two speci- 

 mens (the male in poor condition) received from Mr. F. P. 

 Dodd, who has found the larvae on Eucalyptus platyphylla. 



PYRALID^. 

 DODDIANA, n. g. 

 Frons flat, not prominent. Tongue present. Antennae 

 in male minutely ciliated (one-sixth). Maxillary palpi filiform, 



