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grey. Forewings moderate, apex rounded ; dark brownish-ochreous ; costal edge 

 fuscous from near base to near apex ; a very slender pale line along fold ; another 

 from ^ costa, at first oblique, then longitudinal to above tornus, partly edged 

 with fuscous beneath; a third from middle joining second at its extremity; a 

 large, triangular, subapical, fuscous, costal spot, giving rise to a sharply angulated 

 subterminal line, edged posteriorly with whitish ; cilia ochreous with a fuscous 

 basal line. Hindwings and cilia fuscous. 



North Queensland : Innisf ail, in November ; Queensland : Eumundi, near 

 Nambour, in March; two specimens. 



Erechthias cirrhopolia, n. sp. 



KippoTToXLos, yellowish-grey. 



d, 9, 9-10 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax whitish-ochreous. Abdo- 

 men grey, beneath whitish-ochreous. Legs whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate- 

 oval, apex pointed ; leaden-grey ; a pale-ochreous median line from base to a large 

 pale-ochreous terminal suffusion; a whitish costal streak from base, broadly 

 expanded from ^ to f, where it ends abruptly ; two broad, oblique, wedge-shaped, 

 fuscous, costal streaks crossing white area, and prolonged by pale-ochreous lines 

 into terminal suffusion ; a suffused whitish spot on ^ dorsum ; a blackish dot 

 above tornus, another near termen below middle, and a third at apex ; cilia pale 

 ochreous, apices pale grey. Hindwings broadly lanceolate ; pale grey ; cilia 1^, 

 pale grey. 



Queensland : Coolangatta, in September, two specimens. 



Erechthias celetica, n. sp. 

 K7]XrjTLKo<;, charming. 



6 , 10 mm. Head and thorax grey ; face and palpi dark fuscous. Antennae 

 fuscous. Abdomen grey. Legs whitish ; tarsi and middle tibiae annulated with 

 dark fuscous, anterior pair mostly dark fuscous. Forewings dark fuscous ; 

 dorsal area broadly but irregularly whitish-grey ; a short outwardly-oblique white 

 streak from \ costa, running into a white spot at \ above fold ; a dark-fuscous 

 spot beneath fold at about ^; a second, short, white, oblique, costal streak at 

 middle ; a longer, very fine, white streak from f costa, very oblique and nearly 

 reaching termen ; a triangular, whitish, subapical, costal spot ; an irregular, 

 longitudinal, white, supratornal blotch ; termen narrowly whitish ; cilia whitish 

 with apical hook and two terminal lines fuscous. Hindwings broadly lanceolate ; 

 grey ; cilia grey. 



Allied to the preceding but with many differences in the markings of 

 forewings. 



Queensland : Burpengary, near Brisbane, in December, one specimen. 



Erechthias polionota, n. sp. 

 TToXtorojTo?, grey backed. 



6 , 10 mm. Head and thorax grey ; face and palpi dark fuscous. Antennae 

 grey, darker towards apex. Abdomen pale grey. Legs whitish ; tarsi and middle 

 tibiae annulated with fuscous ; anterior pair wholly fuscous. Forewings dark 

 fuscous ; dorsal area broadly grey ; three outwardly-oblique white streaks from 

 costa to middle of disc, from costa at \, middle, and f ; a triangular white sub- 

 apical costal spot ; a larger subapical white terminal spot ; cilia grey, with sub- 

 basal and subapical terminal lines, and costal hook at apex fuscous. Hindwings 

 broadly lanceolate; pale grey; cilia pale grey. 



Queensland : Stradbroke Island, in November, one specimen. 



