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Transactions. — Zoology. 



6. Phlceopola, Meyr. 



Head with loosely appressed scales, sidetufts large, loosely spreading. 

 Antennae in male moderately stout, somewhat serrate, moderately and 

 evenly ciliated (1), basal joint rather elongate, moderate, without pecten. 

 Palpi long, second joint reaching or exceeding base of antenna?, dilated with 

 dense appressed scales, slightly rough beneath, terminal joint as long as 

 second or somewhat shorter, moderate or stout, strongly recurved. Thorax 

 with dense posterior crest. Forewings elongate, moderate, apex bluntly 

 rounded, hindmargin obliquely rounded. Hindwings as broad as forewings 

 or somewhat narrower, elongate-ovate, hindmargin rounded, cilia \ to f. 

 Abdomen moderate, strongly margined. Middle tibiae with a median whorl 

 of projecting hairs, and roughly short-haired beneath ; posterior tibiae 

 clothed with long dense hairs above. Forewings with vein 7 to apex, 2 

 from angle of cell. Hindwings normal. 



An Australian genus of moderate extent ; the single New Zealand species 

 appears truly referable here, but my specimen is hardly good enough to 

 allow of accurate determination. 



7. Phlce. dinocosma, n. sp. 



Media, alis ant. fuscis, ochreo-nebulosis, costa partim, dorsi basi, maculis 

 disci tribus strigulaque media nigricantibus ; post, albido-griseis, lunula 

 media saturatiore. 



Male. — 19 mm. Head pale ochreous, with a few dark fuscous scales 

 between antenna?, and a dark fuscous spot on each side of crown. Palpi 

 with second joint whitish-ochreous, base and a subapical ring dark fuscous, 

 terminal joint dark fuscous, apex, base, and anterior edge whitish-ochreous. 

 Antenna? pale ochreous, indistinctly ringed with dark fuscous. Thorax pale 

 ochreous, anteriorly suffused with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochre- 

 ous. Anterior and middle legs dark fuscous, tibia? with central and apical 

 whitish-ochreous rings, tarsi with whitish-ochreous rings at apex of joints ; 

 posterior legs ochreous-whitish, tarsal joints somewhat infuscated at base. 

 Forewings moderate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex rounded, 

 hindmargin obliquely rounded ; pale ochreous, coarsely and suffusedly 

 irrorated with fuscous ; costal edge suffusedly dark fuscous, interrupted by 

 a very small pale ochreous spot in middle, and a rather larger one at f ; a 

 dark fuscous spot at base of costa, and a linear mark along base of inner 

 margin ; a short linear dark fuscous mark along fold near base ; a very small 

 round dark fuscous spot in disc at £, and a rather larger subquadrate spot 

 below and slightly beyond it, both margined anteriorly and posteriorly with 

 pale ochreous ; an irregular subquadrate suffused dark fuscous spot in disc 

 beyond middle, similarly margined ; between this and first discal spot is a 

 short longitudinal dark fuscous streak ; a small suffused dark fuscous spot 



