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Cryptophaga hyalinopa. Lower. 



(Trans. Roy. Soc, S.A., p. 82, 1901.) 



Female, 66 mm. Head, thorax, palpi, antennae, legs, and 

 abdomen as in male. Forewings as in male, but color clear 

 fleshy-ochreous. throughout ; markings as in male. Hindwings 

 pale ochreous, with a tuft of blackish hairs on innermargin 

 above anal angle ; cilia pale ochreous. 



The sexes of this species are very dissimilar in the hind- 

 wings, the male having the terminal half hyaline and the basal 

 half black. 



Cooktown, Queensland ; one specimen. 



Xylorycta parthenistis. n. sp. 



Female, 32 mm. Head and palpi white, faintly ochreous- 

 tinged. Thorax white, very faintly ochreous-tinged anteriorly. 

 Abdomen greyish-ochreous, segmental margins dull reddish. 

 Antennce and legs white. Forewings elongate, moderate, 

 costa gently arched, termen rounded, oblique, 7 to teiinen ; 

 shining snow^-white ; a fine pale ochreous line along costa 

 from base to apex, somewhat dilated iposteriorly ; cilia snow- 

 white. Hindwings wth termen rounded, 3 and 4 from a point, 



6 and 7 from a point ; shining snow^-white ; cilia shining snow- 

 white. 



Differs from the similarly colored white species by the snow- 

 white hindwings. It is most related to hnmoleuca. Lower, and 

 chinno'ptera, Lower, differing from the former by the hindwings 

 ^and ochreous costal streak, and the latter by the hindwangs and 

 whitish, not orange. 'head. 



Xylorycta stereodesma, n. sp. 



Female, 30 mm. Head orange, hairs somewhat erect. Palpi 

 and antennse fuscous, basal half of second joint externally 

 ochreous, wholly ochreous internally. Thorax dark fuscous, 

 anteriorly broadly white. Abdomen ochreous. Legs .^uscous, 

 posterior pair ochreous. Forewings elongate, moderate, costa 

 gently arched, termen oblique, hardly rounded, silvery-white; 



7 to termen; 2 moderately thick longitudinal black -treaks, 

 first from middle of base to apex ; second along innermargin 

 from near base to anal angle ; cilia shining white, on streaks 

 blackish. Hindwings with termen rounded ; fuscous, l.ecom- 

 ing ochreous at base; 3 and 4 short stalked; cilia pale 

 ochreous. 



Probably nearest nynaula, Meyr. It has the facies of the 

 second section of the Gderhiad<p, but the termen of hindwings. 



