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on tornus mixed with fuscous. Hindwings pale grey, sometimes mottled with 

 whitish-ochreous ; cilia whitish-ochreous. 



The forewings are pure white; in N. frifasciana they are slightly ochreous 

 tinged with slight fuscous irroration, and the markings are darker and broader. 

 Though extremely similar the differences appear constant. 



Queensland : Brisbane, in March and April ; Toowoomba, in April ; three 

 specimens. 



Narycia pelochroa^ Meyr. 



I have a second female example of A'', leiiceres, Turn., from Stradbroke 

 Island, but have found no male to correspond, and now regard it as merely a 

 pale form of the female of A'', pelochroa. 



Mesopherna epomadia, n. sp. 



eVco/xaStos, marked on the shoulders. 



(S , $ , 14-22 mm. Head whitish ; face and palpi dark fuscous. Antennae 

 ochreous-whitish. Thorax white; bases of patagia fuscous. Abdomen pale 

 ochreous-grey. Legs fuscous ; posterior pair ochreous-whitish. Forewings 

 moderate, oval, costa rather strongly arched, apex rounded, termen very oblique ; 

 7 and 8 approximated at origin, 7 to costa ; white with sparse dark-fuscous 

 irroration; a strong dark-fuscous costal streak from base to about -J-; sometimes 

 a suffused spot on middorsum ; cilia white irrorated with fuscous and grey. 

 Hindwings with 5 and 6 approximated at origin ; pale grey ; cilia pale grey. 



Queensland: Brisbane, in December and February; Coolangatta, in October; 

 four specimens. 



Mesopherna niphopasta, n. sp. 



vtc^oTrao-Tos, Sprinkled with snow. 

 $, 15 mm. Head white; face blackish. Palpi blackish; extreme apex of 

 labial palpi white. Antennae fuscous, towards base white. Thorax white. 

 Abdomen grey ; in female with large apical tuft. Legs fuscous ; posterior 

 pair grey except tarsi, which are fuscous with fine whitish annulations. Fore- 

 wings dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, more strongly so towards apex, 

 apex round-pointed ; 7 and 8 separate ; 7 to costa ; grey, rather densely sprinkled 

 with white dots ; a broad white median streak from base to f , its inferior edge 

 ill-defined ; a blackish dot on fold at \ ; another larger and irregular at f in 

 median streak ; a few blackish scales towards dorsum and in median streak ; 

 an interrupted, blackish, terminal line ; cilia white, apices blackish, a curved, 

 basal, blackish line on costa and around apex, continued as an indistinct subapical 

 line to tornus. Hindwings elongate-ovate, apex pointed ; 5 and 6 approximated 

 at origin ; pale grey ; cilia ^, pale grey. 



Queensland : Gayndah, one specimen received from Dr. Hamilton Kenny. 



Ardiosteres crossospila, n. sp. 

 Kpoa-(Tocnri\o<;, with marginal spots. 



d" , $ , 14-17 mm. Head pale-fuscous. Palpi whitish-ochreous with a few 

 fuscous scales. Antennae pale fuscous ; in male thickened and shortly ciliated 

 f . Thorax and abdomen fuscous. Legs fuscous ; posterior pair whitish- 

 ochreous, fuscous tinged. Forewings broadly oval, costa strongly arched, apex 

 rounded, termen very oblique ; 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to termen ; rather pale fuscous 

 with some darker scales ; markings ochreous-whitish ; a subquadrate spot on 

 3 costa, its lower angles slightly produced ; a dot on midcosta and a small spot 

 on about f ; an oblique wedge-shaped spot on middorsum, its apex outwards ; 

 dorsal dots at f and tornus ; a median subterminal dot ; a wedge-shaped spot on 

 termen beneath apex; cilia fuscous, on terminal spot whitish. Hindwings and 

 cilia grey. 



