* i>03 



XYLOKYCTID.^. 



PiLOSTIBES EMBRONETA, 11. sp. 



Male and female, 30-46 mm. Head brown-whitish ; face 

 white. Palpi white ; external surface of second joint brownish, 

 Antenn?e white ; pectinations in male 1. Thorax pale brown. 

 Abdomen whitish, mixed ^\dtll reddish-brown. Legs brown- 

 whitish. Forewings elongate-oblong, costa strongly arched, 

 apex acute, hindmargin oblique, sinuate beneath ap€x ; pale 

 brown, with a very few scattered dark fuscous scales ; a broad, 

 streak from base of costa to beyond middle of disc, toothed 

 above at one-third and beneath at two-thirds, white, edged with 

 dark fuscous, apical third narrow and wholly dark fuscous ; 

 cilia gi'ey, with a strongly marked dark fuscous basal line. 

 Hindwings Ih, hindmargin rounded; whitish, slightly 

 brownish-tinged ; cilia whitish. 



Mareeba, Northern Queensland ; two imagos bred in August 

 from larv?e feeding m the stems of a crimson-flowered CaHiHff- 

 mon gi'owing on the banks of the Barron River. 



Cryptophasa psilocrossa, n. sp. 



Male, 35 mm. Head whitish-brown; face whitish. Palpi 

 whitish. Antennae dark fuscous; pectinations 1. Thorax 

 ochreous-brown, with a posterior pale ochreous spot. Abdo- 

 men dark fuscous ; second segment orange-ochreous ; tuft 

 whitish-ochreous. Legs whitish-brown annulated with dark 

 fuscous ; posterior pair mostly dark fuscous. Forewings some- 

 what dilated near base ; costa slightly arched, apex round- 

 pointed, hindmargin obliquely rounded ; ochreous brown ; with 

 five blackish dots in disc ; first in disc beyond one-third ; second 

 in disc at two-thirds ; third before and beneath second ; fourth 

 and fifth close together, above and beneath fold, equi-distant 

 from first and third ; an interrupted blackish line on lower 

 two-thirds of hindmargin ; cilia ochreous-brown. Hindwings 

 much broader than forewings, hindmargin rounded ; dark fus- 

 cous ; a narrow strip denuded of scales from apex along apical 

 half of hindmargin ; cilia white. 



In general appearance resembles the male of C. halttata, 

 Wlk., but the wings are broader and differently shaped. It 

 also differs in the pale sipot on thorax, absence of dots on costa 

 of forewings ; and partly bare margin and white cilia of hind- 

 wings. The female is not yet known. 



Brisbane, in October ; one specimen bred from Enralii i>tii-<. 



