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black subapical spot ; cilia grey, on costa whitish with two fuscous streaks, one 

 nearly transverse almost meeting another internally oblique from apex. Hind- 

 wings narrow-lanceolate ; grey ; cilia grey. 



Queensland : Mount Tambourine, in October, one specimen. 



Leucoptera diasticha, n. sp. 



8ta(TT/.xo9, through lined. 



9, 5 mm. Head and thorax white; crown smooth. Antennae grey; basal 

 joint white. Abdomen grey. Legs whitish. Forewings white; a fine fuscous 

 line from -| costa to dorsum before tornus, followed by a pale-ochreous shade, 

 which is limited by a second shorter parallel line reaching middle of disc ; a third 

 subapical line reaching as far ; a silvery tornal spot, preceded and followed by a 

 black dot ; cilia white, with three diverging lines in costa, the third running to 

 apex. Hindwings narrow-lanceolate ; pale grey ; cilia pale grey. 



Recognizable by the through line from costa to dorsum. 



New South Wales : Hornsby, in June, one specimen received from Dr. R. 

 J. Tillyard. 



Leucoptera toxeres, n. sp. 



To^T/pTj?, bearing a bow. 



d, 9, 4-5 mm. Head and thorax white; crown smooth. Antennae grey; 

 basal joint white. Abdomen grey. Legs white. Forewings white; a fine, 

 fuscous, outwardly-oblique line from costa before middle to middisc, a second 

 parallel line just beyond middle, the included area pale-ochreous ; a slightly 

 outwardly-curved fuscous line from -f costa to dorsum before tornus ; a short 

 subapical line from costa; a pale-ochreous tornal blotch edged on termen by 

 a dark-f uscou.s line ; a black apical spot ; cilia whitish. Hindwings narrow- 

 lanceolate ; grey-whitish ; cilia whitish. 



Recognizable by the curved, transverse, postmedian line. 



North Queensland : Kuranda, in June ; Queensland : Dulong, near Nambour, 

 in April ; two specimens. 



Leuco|)tera asbolopasta, n. sp. 



do-/SoAo7rao-T09, sprinkled with soot. 



6 , 6 mm. Head and thorax white ; crown smooth. Antennae grey ; basal 

 joint white Abdomen pale grey with a large, subbasal, blackish, dorsal spot ; 

 tuft and underside whitish. Legs white. Forewings shining white ; very faintly 

 marked with ochreous; a costal spot beyond middle, two short lines from costa 

 between this and apex, and a short erect mark from tornus ; cilia white, two 

 fine fuscous lines from costa, the second of these is prolonged in a sinuous 

 fashion around apex and becomes blackish as far as tornus, limiting an ochreous- 

 tlnged basal area. Hindwings narrow-lanceolate ; grey-whitish densely irrorated 

 with blackish scales except at apex ; cilia whitish. Underside of both wings 

 with greater part of disc densely irrorated with blackish scales. 



Very similar to L. periphracta, Meyr., of which I have both sexes from the 

 same locality, readily distinguished by the peculiar blackish irroration, which 

 ^may be sexual. 



North Queensland : Kuranda, one specimen received from Air. F. P. Dodd. 



Opostega chalcoplethes, n. sp. 



Xa\x°'^^V^V'»^ filled with brass. 



f^ , 14 mm. Head white. Palpi grey. Antennae grey; basal joint white. 

 Thorax brassy-fuscous. Abdomen grey. Legs grey-whitish ; anterior pair 

 fuscous. Forewings lanceolate, apex acute; brassy-fuscous; a white costal 

 streak from near base to near apex ; a white dorsal streak from near base to 



