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compressed. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Antennae with basal joint long, flat- 

 tened, concave beneath. Forewings with 2 from near angle, one vein absent 

 (I am not sure which), remaining veins all separate. Hindwings with one vein 

 absent, remaining veins all separate. 



Doubtless allied to Opogona, with which it agrees in the structure of head 

 and antennae, though palpi and neuration are very different. 



Pycnobela aplectodes, n. sp. 



dTrAeKTcuS?;?, simple. 



6 , 9, 12-15 mm. Head dark grey; face white. Palpi whitish, apices of 

 second and terminal joints grey on upper-surface. Antennae fuscous annulated 

 with white. Thorax dark grey, anterior edge narrowly white. Abdomen grey ; 

 tuft ochreous-whitish ; underside whitish. Legs grey ; posterior pair whitish. 

 Forewings elongate-oval, apex pointed; dark-grey; a white costal streak from 

 base to apex, where it is slightly dilated, and contains four fuscous dots, three 

 costal and one terminal ; cilia grey, on apex and costa white. Hindwings very 

 broadly lanceolate ; grey ; cilia grey. 



North Queensland : Kuranda, in September and October, four specimens 

 received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Comodica eurynipha, n. sp. 



evpvvtcf)o<;, broadly snow-white. 



9, 16 mm. Head white; sides of crown and face blackish. Palpi fuscous; 

 inner-surface white. Antennae fuscous. Thorax fuscous, with a large central 

 white spot extending to anterior margin. Abdomen grey. Legs whitish; 

 anterior pair fuscous. Forewings moderate, apex obtuse ; fuscous, towards apex 

 brownish tinged, markings white; a broad basal costal streak, extending to 

 -^- costa, then narrowing to a point at about middle of disc; two oblique streaks 

 from costa at middle and -§, the latter slender; an elongate mark on tornus; 

 a fine fuscous line from | costa, rather sharply bent before apex, ending on edge 

 of tornal mark; an apical blackish dot in a grey suffusion; cilia whitish with a 

 median line and a dot opposite apex dark fuscous. Hindwings ovate-lanceolate; 

 grey ; cilia %, grey. 



Nearest C. acontistes, Meyr. 



Queensland: National Park (3,000 feet), in December, one specimen. 



Comodica crypsicroca, n. sp. 

 Kpvif/LKpoKo<;, with hidden saffron. 



d , 9 mm. Head grey-whitish. Palpi whitish. Antennae whitish ; towards 

 apex grey. Thorax and abdomen grey. Legs dark fuscous annulated with 

 white ; posterior pair whitish. Forewings moderate, obtuse, but with slight 

 apical projection; white with some fuscous suffusion on basal and dorsal areas; 

 a short fuscous streak from base on fold ; costal edge fuscous with three broad- 

 based costal streaks, at base, -|-, and just beyond middle, the last longer and 

 extending obliquely outwards to middle of disc ; a narrow white streak separates 

 this from an orange-brown, oblique, fuscous-edged, subapical streak; an orange- 

 brown spot on termen edged posteriorly with blackish; cilia pale ochreous with 

 two costal and one subapical blackish bars. Hindwings ovate-lanceolate ; pale 

 grey; cilia 1, pale grey. 



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



Comodica drepanosema, n. sp. 

 BirpeTravocrrifjio's, sickle marked. 



$ , 9 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax grey-whitish. Antennae and abdomen 

 grey. Legs whitish; anterior pair fuscous. Forewings rather narrow, apex 



