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NEW AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 



By A. Jefferis Turner, M.D., F.E.S. 



[Read July 12, 1923.] 



Fam. GLYPHIPTERYGIDAE. 



Gen. Epithetica, nov. 



eTTiO^eTLKo, active. 



Tongue present. Labial palpi moderately long, recurved, scarcely reaching 

 vertex, rather stout, laterally compressed, slightly rough-scaled; terminal joint 

 shorter than second, obtusely pointed. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Antennae 

 about -|, without pecten ; in male simple. Thorax with a posterior crest. 

 Middle tibiae much thickened with scales towards apex. Posterior tibiae clothed 

 with long loose hairs above and beneath. Forewings with 2 from shortly before 

 angle, 7 and 8 coincident, 11 from before middle of cell. Hindwings broadly 

 ovate, cilia -5-; 3 and 4 connate or stalked, 5, 6, 7 separate, parallel. 



This interesting genus has neuration identical with Hierodoris, Meyr., from 

 New Zealand, but differs in the long-haired posterior tibiae and presence of a 

 thoracic crest. It is probably an independent development from Heliostibes, 

 Zel., also from New Zealand, but not, so far, known from Australia. 



Epithetica typhoscia, n. sp. 



Tv4>o(TKi.o<;, darkly shaded. 



5, 14-15 mm. Head fuscous; face grey. Palpi pale-grey irrorated ex- 

 tensively with blackish, which sometimes forms transverse rings. Antennae 

 fuscous annulated with pale grey ; in male simple. Thorax dark fuscous ; 

 patagia and a pair of lateral spots brown. Abdomen dark fuscous. Legs dark 

 fuscous ; posterior tibiae and tarsi partly whitish-ochreous. Forewings sub- 

 oblong, posteriorly dilated, costa slightly arched, apex rounded-rectangular, 

 termen sinuate beneath apex, slightly oblique ; dark fuscous ; a suffused brown 

 subbasal fascia; a brown incomplete fascia from dorsum before middle, 

 reaching f across disc, edged anteriorly with grey ; immediately after this a 

 suffused grey fascia from midcosta to beyond middorsum, in it a fine black 

 line from -| costa to ^ dorsum ; another grey fascia containing a dark line from 

 f costa to termen above tornus ; terminal edge fuscous preceded by a grey line ; 

 cilia fuscous. Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia fuscous. 



New South Wales : Lismore, in October, two specimens. 



Sagalassa homotona, Swin. 



Balataea homotona, Swin., Cat. Oxf. Mus., i., p. 36, pi. ii., f. 18. 



6 , 22 mm. Head dark fuscous ; face partly ochreous. Palpi 3^ ; dark 

 fuscous, lower surface whitish-ochreous. Antennae dark fuscous ; in male with 

 thickened stalk, pectinations 2. Thorax fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous with 

 white subbasal and median transverse lines on dorsum ; beneath irregularly 

 mixed with white. Legs [middle pair absent] dark fuscous ; dorsum of tibiae 

 except base and posterior third whitish-ochreous ; apices of tibiae and first two 

 tarsal joints whitish. Forewings narrowly oblong, dilated beyond middle, costa 

 sinuate, apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded ; dark fuscous ; costa narrowly 

 ochreous to §, thence whitish ; a few ochreous scales above § dorsum ; an 

 elongate-oval longitudinal ochreous spot in middle of terminal area; cilia 



