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terminal margins; cilia ochreous-yellow. Hindwings rather 

 elongate, termen slightl}^ rounded; pale ochreous yellow; a 

 broad blackish terminal band ; cilia pale ochreous-yellow, near 

 tornus blackish. 



Female, 30-37 mm. Head whitish, pinkish-tinged. Palpi 

 ochreous. Antennpe whitish. Thorax whitish, pinkish- 

 tinged; two elongate posterior dark grey spots. Abdomen 

 grey; third segment ochreous; apices of segments pale 

 ochreous. Legs ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa mode- 

 rately arched, apex round-pointed, termen nearly straight, ob- 

 lique ; whitish, pinkish-tinged ; with four oval ochreous spots, 

 bordered with blackish scales and surrounded with more or less 

 blackish irroration ; first spot in disc at one-third, second 

 obliquely beyond and below iirst, third and fourth closely 

 approximated, arranged transversely in disc before two-thirds, 

 the latter more elongate; cilia /pale grey, apices ochreous-fus- 

 cous. Hindwings pale yellowish ; a suffused pale grey ter- 

 minal band ; cilia pale grey. 



No one would have considered these dissimilar insects to be 

 sexes, but Mr. Dodd, who has bred a series, and in whom I 

 have every confidence, assures me that that is the case. I 

 think this must be identical with the species described by Mr. 

 Lower, although if so he has described a female type as the 

 male. 



Townsville, Queensland, in December ; three specimens re- 

 ceived from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



LiCHENAULA CANDESCENS, LoW. 



{Xylorycta candescens. Lower. Tr. R.S., S.A., 1896, p. 163; 

 Lichenaula dissimilis, Turner. Annals Queensland Mus., 1897, 

 iv., p. 18.) 



Charters Towers, Townsville, and Brisbane, Queensland. 



Lichenaula comparella, Wlk. 



{CEcopliora compareUa, Wlk., Tin., 681 ; Lichenaula calli- 

 sema, Turn., Annals Queensland Mus., iv., p. 19.) 



I have examined and identified Walker's type in the British 

 Museum. 



I may here remark that the large genera, Xylorycta and 

 Lichenaula, are in an unsatisfactory position at present, and 

 will need revision. The stalking or separation of veins 6 and 

 7 of the hindwings is certainly variable in several species. 



Lichenaula allocrossa, n. sip. 

 Male and female, 22-25 mm. Head and palpi clear brown. 

 Antennce fuscous ; in male slightly serrate, with short ciliationa 



