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apex round-pointed, termen bowed, oblique; pale brownish- 

 grey; a clear whit-e median subcostal spot, edged with some- 

 darker scales; a similar spot narrower and twice constricted at 

 I ; cilia grey. Hindwings with termen rounded, slightly 

 sinuate; median vein with a few loose hairs; ochreous- 

 whitish with some brownish-grey irroration ; an antemedian 

 dot, and a subt-erminal band of the same colour; cilia grey. 



Type in Coll. Lyell. 



v., Lome, in December and March; three specimens- 

 received from Mr. G. Lyell. 



Pyrausta apocrypha, n. sp. 

 (Apokmjjhos, hidden, obscure.) 



9 , 32 mm. Head pale-brownish. Palpi IJ; pale-brown-^ 

 ish, base white. Antennae whitish. Thorax pale-brownish. 

 Abdomen brown-whitish. Legs whitish. Forewings rather 

 elongate-triangular, costa straight for J, then arched, apex 

 round-pointed, termen scarcely bowed, oblique ; pale-brown- 

 ish without markings, except traces of a suffused, slightly 

 darker, oblique, postmedian line; cilia brown-whitish. Hind- 

 wings with termen rounded ; brown-whitish ; a very indis- 

 tinct, suffused, postmedian line; cilia whitish. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



Q., Brisbane, in March ; one specimen^ 



Genus Otiophora, nor. 



{Otiophoros, bearing little ears; in allusion to fovea on 

 forewing.) 



Plead flat and oblique. Tongue well developed. Palpi 

 moderat-e, porrect; terminal joint short, obtuse. Maxillary 

 palpi well-developed, not dilated. Antennae in 6 minutely 

 ciliated. Posterior tibiae with outer spurs J inner. Fore- 

 wing of S with a large auricular fovea near base on upper 

 surface between subcostal vein and dorsum, bounded dor- 

 sally by a steep ridge; vein 10 separate. Hindwings with 

 vein 7 anastomosing with 8 to nearly apex. 



Type Pionea leucnra, Low. 



Otiophora leucura. 



Vionea leucura. Low., Tr. R.S.S.A., 1903, p. 67. 



This species is not ''white-tailed," as the name woulci 

 imply. 



N.Q., Townsville. Q., Brisbane. 



