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tornus, interrupted in middle ; apex blackish ; cilia white, on apex broadly 

 blackish. Hindwings lanceolate; pale grey; cilia pale grey. 

 Western Australia : Perth, one specimen. 



Opostega brithys, n. sp. 



(ipiOvi, heavy. 

 $ , 16 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax white. Abdomen grey. 

 Legs ochreous-whitish ; anterior pair greyish. Forewings white, slightly greyish 

 tinged, becoming grey near apex; cilia grey, basal half fuscous around apex, 

 on tornus and dorsum wholly whitish. Hindwings broadly lanceolate ; grey ; 

 cilia grey. 



A remarkably large species for this genus. 



North Queensland : Cairns district, one specimen received from Mr. F. P. 

 Dodd. 



Opostega monotypa, n. sp. 



fxovorviro';, with one mark. 



(S , 8 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax white. Abdomen and legs 

 whitish. Forewings white ; a suboval, fuscous, costal spot slightly beyond 

 middle ; a minute apical black dot ; cilia whitish. Hindwings narrow-lanceolate ; 

 grey-whitish ; cilia whitish. 



North Queensland : Cairns district, one specimen received from Mr. F. P. 

 Dodd. 



Opostega atypa, n. sp. 



arviro?, without marking. 



$ , 8 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax white. Abdomen and legs 

 ochreous-whitish. Forewings broadly-lanceolate, acute ; white, towards dorsum 

 faintly ochreous tinged ; cilia whitish. Hindwings lanceolate ; grey-whitish ; 

 cilia whitish. 



North Queensland : Cairns, in July, one specimen. 



Opostega phaeospila, n. sp. 



(^atoo-TTtXos, with dusky spot. 



6 , 7 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax white. Abdomen grey. 

 Legs whitish ; anterior pair grey. Forewings white ; a small fuscous spot on 

 costa at -| ; two fine, outwardly-oblique, converging, short, fuscous streaks from 

 costa before apex ; cilia whitish, a fine, fuscous, transverse streak above apex, 

 and a short, iDlackish, transverse streak opposite apex. Hindwings and cilia 

 pale grey. 



Queensland: National Park (3,500 to 4,000 feet), in January, one specimen. 



Opostega centrospila, n. sp. 



/ccvT/ooo-TTtXos, with central spot. 



6 , 7-8 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax white. Antennae grey, towards base 

 white. Legs grey ; posterior pair whitish. Forewings moderate, apex obtuse ; 

 white with fuscous markings ; an elongate spot in disc above middle ; an oblique 

 streak from midcosta and another from dorsum, the two sometimes meeting; 

 a variable marginal sufifusion on apex and termen ; cilia whitish with some 

 fuscous admixture, on dorsum grey-whitish. Hindwings lanceolate ; pale grey ; 

 cilia 4, pale grey. 



Queensland : Brisbane, in August ; Mount Tambourine, in November ; two 

 specimens. 



