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with angular projections at joints and short ciliations (^). 

 Thorax fuscous; patagia white. Abdomen white irrorated 

 with fuscous. Legs white; anterior pair fuscous, tarsi white 

 with fuscous annulations. Forewings elongate-triangular, 

 costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen slightly sigmoid, 

 slightly oblique; white, with dark-fuscous and ochreous- 

 brown scales; costal edge fuscous; a short blackish 

 longitudinal streak from base ; a blackish line from 

 J costa to -J dorsum ; a triangular ochreous-brown suffusion on 

 dorsum beyond middle, edged above with blackish scales; a 

 fine black circle in disc at | connected by ochreous-brown 

 suffusions with costa at | and |, and with tornus; a fuscous 

 terminal line; cilia white with a few fuscous scales. Hind- 

 wings Avith termen rounded, scarcely indented beneath apex ; 

 white ; irregular blackish suffusions before and beyond middle ; 

 a pale ochreous subterminal band ; terminal line and cilia as 

 forewings. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



Q., Stradbroke Island, in January; one specimen. 



Genus Hylebatis, no v. 

 {Hulehates, haunting the forest.) 



Frons flat. Tongue well-developed. Palpi moderate, 

 porrect, triangularly dilated with hairs, terminal joint con- 

 cealed. Maxilliary palpi strongly dilated at apices. An- 

 tennae with triangular projections at joints; in S with rather 

 long cilia. Posterior tibiae with inner median spur long, 

 outer J, inner distal spur moderate, outer §. Forewings with 

 8 and 9 stalked, 10 closely approximated to 8-f9. Hindwings 

 normal. 



Allied to Nymphula but with different palpi. 



Hylebatis scintillifera, n. sp. 

 iScintillifer, sparkling.) 

 d 9 J 12-16 mm. Head pale ochreous-fuscous. Palpi 

 whitish; external surface fuscous. Antennae ochreous-whit- 

 ish; ciliations in d" \\. Thorax ochreous-whitish. Abdomen 

 pale ochreous-fuscous, apices of segments whitish. Legs 

 ochreous-whitish ; anterior tibiae and tarsi annulated with 

 blackish. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa nearly 

 straight, apex rounded, termen rounded, oblique; whitish 

 suffused and irrorated with ochreous-fuscous; a strongly out- 

 wardly-curved fuscous transverse sub-basal line, and a similar 

 slightly curved line at J; a median fuscous pale-centred dis- 

 cal dot; a third line from f costa to t-ermen, then looped to 

 beneath discal dot, where it forms a second loop, ending in 

 dorsum beyond middle, after describing a sharp externally 



