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white. Forewings triangular, costa moderately arched, termen 

 scarcely bowed, oblique, strongly indented at J from apex; 

 fuscous; a white spot on costa before middle, continuous with 

 a white crescentic discal mark, its concavity outwards; a 

 white crescentic line from | costa to mid-disc, its concavity 

 inwards; a short oblique white subapical streak; a dark-fus- 

 cous terminal line interrupted at indentation; cilia whitish, 

 on apex and mid-termen dark-fuscous. Hindwings with 

 termen rounded, indented beneath apex; •olour as forewings 

 but without white markings. 



This obscure species is one of the smallest of the 

 Pyralidse. 



Type in Coll. Lyell. 



N.Q., Kuranda, in March; one specimen received from 

 Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Genus ARiEOMORPHA, nov. 



(Araiomorphos, slenderly formed.) 

 Frons rounded. Tongue well developed. Palpi up- 

 turned, reaching vertex; second joint with loose speading 

 hairs towards base; terminal joint long, slender, acute. Max- 

 illary palpi short, rather stout, not dilated. Antennae 

 of (S simple, shortly ciliated. Legs long and slender; spurs 

 nearly equal. Forewings with 3 and 4 stalked, or less com- 

 monly connate; 8, 9, 10 stalked. Hindwings with 4 absent 

 (coincident with 5), 6 and 7 stalked. 



The stalking of 3 and 4 of the forewings though char- 

 acteristic is not always present. 



AjliEOMORPHA ATMOTA, n. Sp. 



(Atmotos, smoky.) 



d 9 , 14-19 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and 

 abdomen fuscous. Legs fuscous, beneath whitish. Forewings 

 narrow-elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, 

 apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded; pale-fuscous, mark- 

 ings darker fuscous; suffused spots at base of costa and dor- 

 sum; similar spots beneath costa at J and middle; a pale 

 sigmoid line from f costa to mid-dorsum ; an indistinct sub- 

 terminal line; cilia grey, apices whitish. Hindwings with 

 termen rounded; whitish, towards termen greyish; cilia 

 greyish. 



The description of Nymphula dijdojja, Low., resembles 

 this species, but it should be structurally different. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q., Kuranda, in October. Q., Brisbane, from Sep- 

 tember to April. Abundant on the river bank, resting on 

 plants, etc., at the edge of tne water. Probably the larvae 

 are aquatic. 



