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Thorax white, anterior margin and 

 extreme apex fuscous. Abdomen whitish. L€gs fuscous,, 

 annulated with white ; posterior pair white. Forewings 

 elongate, costa slightly arched, apex rounded, termen straight^ 

 oblique ; white ; a dark-fuscous spot on base of costa including 

 a white costal dot; disc before median band irregularly suf- 

 fused with pale-fuscous tinged with yellowish; a dark-fuscous 

 median band, its anterior edge sharply defined, concave, from 

 J costa to J dorsum, its posterior edge very ill-defined, and 

 encroached on by white above middle, containing tw^o dark 

 dots representing orbicular and claviform; a median dark- 

 fuscous discal dot ; a dark-fuscous line, somewhat bent out- 

 wards, from j costa to | dorsum, giving off anteriorly a short 

 broad line (representing the reniform) about middle, which 

 bifurcates, the branches being very short, one directed towards 

 base, the other towards costa; a pale-fuscous band succeeds 

 this line, separated from it by white dots on costa and dor- 

 sum; an irregular dark-fuscous subterminal line, thickened 

 in middle, obsolete towards costa; a fine fuscous terminal 

 line, connected with preceding on veins, not reaching tornus; 

 cilia white, with a median series of fuscous dots. Hindwings 

 1^; termen slightly sinuate; white, tinged with grey 

 towards termen; cilia white. 



Nearest S. epicryma and ^S*. exhibifalis. This genus is- 

 poorly represented in Queensland. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



Q., Killarney, in October; two specimens, of which one 

 is in Coll. Meyrick. 



Subfamily TINEODIN^. 

 A small group characterized by vein 5 of the hindwinga 

 arising from the middle of the cell, not approximated to 4 

 at origin. It consists probably of the scattered remnants of a 

 group which may once have been much more largely developed. 

 To it I refer the genera O-xychirota, Meyr. : Coenoloha, Wlsm. ; 

 Tineodes, Gn. ; and Siuuvfliistis, Hmps., of which the first 

 three are Australian, the last Indian. The first two are sa 

 peculiar that they might be treated as two separate sub- 

 families, if that were worth while. 



Tineodes phcenicea, n. sp. 

 (PJwinikeos, purple.) 

 9, 17 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi 4; whitish- 

 ochreous. Antennae whitish. Thorax and abdomen whitish- 

 ochreous; the latter with a broad pale-fuscous dorsal band 

 near base. Legs brownish-fuscous; posterior pair whitish 

 above. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa straight to near 



