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Family EUPTEROTIDAE. 



Ochrogaster confraria, Wlk., one example. 



Family LASIOCAMPIDAE. 



Eremaea, n. gen. {iprj/jLaco'?, of the desert). 



Head with dense anteriorly projecting hairs. Palpi 

 short, porrect, densely hairy, not reaching beyond frons. 

 Fore wings with 2 from about middle of cell, 3 from |, 4 and 5 

 from near angle, 6 from near upper angle, 7 and 8 connate 

 or short-stalked, 9 and 10 stalked, 11 from before middle. 

 Hindwings with cell open between 4 and 6, discocellular 

 being obsolete; 7 from near base of cell, 8 anastomosing with 

 7 near its o.rigin, precostal spur obsolete. Abdomen with 

 large terminal tuft of long hairs in male. 



This distinct and interesting genus belongs to the Crexa- 

 Pinara group. 



Eremaea zonospila. 

 Bombyx zonospila, Low. : Trans. Roy. Soc, S.A., 1903, p. 150. 



S, 38 mm. Head and thorax pale-grey; palpi and 

 lower edge of face blackish. Antennae grey-whitish; pectin- 

 ations in male extremely long (12), ochreous. Abdomen 

 fuscous; base and apical tuft pale-grey. Legs grey. Fore- 

 wings elongate, costa straight, apex rounded, termen rounded, 

 moderately oblique ; pale-grey, with two lines of blackish 

 dots more or less confluent, first from J costa to dorsum before 

 middle, second from | costa to dorsum beyond middle, the 

 two lines converging; the first line edged posteriorly and the 

 second anteriorly with orange-ochreous dots; cilia pale-grey. 

 Hindwings with termen strongly rounded; fuscous; cilia 

 pale-grey. 



Two male examples. The type is from Eucla, South 

 Australia. 



Family PYRALIDAE. 



Subfamily PHYCITINAE. 



Crocydopora cinigerella, Wlk., two examples. 

 Etitlla behri, Zel., one example. 



Tylochares goniostjcha, n. sp. (yo)VLO(rTLxos, with angled line). 



d , 20 mm. Head fuscous, with some whitish irroration. 

 Palpi whitish irrorated with grey, with a fuscous ring at the 

 apex of each joint, and a fourth on middle of second joint. 

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