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with whitish. Forewings rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, 

 termen straight, obhque ; pale grey mottled with fuscous and suffused with 

 green ; a broad green dorsal streak, its edge very irregular, obtusely indented 

 at -3- and f, containing a basal dorsal fuscous spot ; six equidistant quadrangular 

 dark costal spots ; centre of disc suffusedly darker ; terminal edge irrorated 

 with black and white scales ; cilia green, apices paler, a fuscous bar at apex, 

 and another on costa before apex. Hindwings elongate-ovate ; grey ; cilia f, 

 grey. 



This protectively coloured but singularly beautiful moth is difficult to 

 describe ; it is, however, unlike anything else. 



Queensland: National Park (3,500-4,000 feet), in December, two specimens. 



Diathryptica theticopis, n. sp. 



6y}TLK<iiiTL<i, of menial appearance. 



9, 15 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous. Antennae grey. Abdomen 

 whitish ; paired fuscous dots on dorsum of third to sixth segments. Legs 

 fuscous ; posterior pair whitish. Forewings rather narrow, costa gently arched, 

 apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded ; ochreous-f uscous with moderate dark- 

 fuscous irroration ; a dark-fuscous discal dot at f ; cilia fuscous. Hindwings 

 elongate-ovate ; 3 and 4 stalked ; whitish ; cilia ^, whitish. 



Queensland : Brisbane, in April, one specimen. 



Orthenches liparochroa, n. sp. 



XLTrapoxpoo?, glossy. 



d , 17 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous. Antennae grey, towards 

 base fuscous. Abdomen and hindlegs whitish. Forewings moderate, costa 

 rather strongly arched, apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded ; very pale 

 ochreous with general fuscous irroration and markings, rather glossy; an 

 ill-defined, rather broad, antemedian, transverse fascia; four fairly equidistant 

 costal spots between this and apex; where fuscous irroration is less dense it 

 forms small transverse strigulae ; cilia whitish-ochreous with a fuscous sub- 

 basal line. Hindwings broadly ovate ; grey- whitish ; cilia ^, grey-whitish. 



Queensland : Killarney, in October, one specimen. 



Orthenches pleurosticta, n. sp. 



TT/Xevpoo-TtKTos, wlth spottcd costa. 



d, 15 mm. Head fuscous; face ochreous-whitish. Palpi fuscous; inner 

 surface ochreous-whitish. Antennae fuscous ; pecten ochreous-whitish. 

 I'horax fuscous. Abdomen grey. Legs whitish ; anterior pair fuscous ; all 

 tarsi fuscous with two whitish rings. Forewings rather narrow, costa gently 

 arched, apex nearly rectangular, termen obliquely rounded; whitish irrorated 

 and marked with fuscous-grey ; a clearly defined basal patch, its edge running 

 from -Q- costa to 3- dorsum ; costa with numerous minute strigulae ; a large 

 triangular discal spot above tornus, and another between this and termen ; cilia 

 fuscous, apices whitish except on tornus and dorsum. Hindwings elongate- 

 ovate ; grey ; cilia ^, grey. 



Queensland : Toowoomba, in October, one specimen. 



Paraphyllis pamphaea, n. sp. 

 7rafJi(f>aio<;, all dusky. 



6 , 9 , 18-24 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous. Palpi whitish. 

 Antennae fuscous. Legs fuscous ; posterior pair grey. Forewings with costa 

 moderately arched, apex pointed; fuscous; cilia fuscous. Hindwings broadly 

 lanceolate ; fuscous ; cilia fuscous. 



