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GyMNOSCELIS HOLOCAPNA, 11. sp. 



bXoKa-rrvos, wholly smoky. 



d" , 17-18 mm. Head fuscous. Palpi scarcely over 1: 

 dark fuscous mixed with whitish-ochreous. Ant-ennae grey; 

 ciliations in male minute. Thorax and abdomen fuscous- 

 brown. I^egs whitish-ochreous; anterior pair fuscous 

 anteriorly. Forewings rather narrowly triangular, costa 

 gently arched, apex rounded; termen bowed, oblique; 11 

 running into 12 ; fuscous-bro^vn or pale fuscous, markings 

 obscurely darker; a basal patch; a moderate fascia at J, 

 angled inwards beneath costa; a line from | costa, at first 

 outwardly bowed, then slightly sinuate to | dorsum; a very 

 obscure pale dentate subtermiiial line preceded by darker 

 shading ; cilia with basal half fuscous barred with whitish- 

 ochreous opposite veins, terminal half grey. Hindwings rather 

 narrow, termen strongly and evenly rounded ; colour and 

 cilia as forewings, but markings even more obscure; post- 

 median line with a median tooth, indented below middle; 

 subterminal line strongly dentate ; some blackish irroration 

 on dorsum. Underside fuscous-whitish. 



An obscure species. 



Northern Territory: Darwin, in September, December, 

 and March; four specimens received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



ChLOROCLYSTIS PIIOENOCHYTA, 11. sp. 



(f)oivoxvTo<s. suffused with reddish. 



9, 15 mm. Head whitish; face pale red. Palpi 2; 

 grey. Antennae with joints expanded at apices ; grey. 

 Thorax whitish with a fine, transverse, j)ostmedian line of 

 dark-fuscous and reddish scales. [Abdomen and legs broken 

 off.] Forewings elongate-triangular, costa slightly arched, 

 apex round-pointed, termen bowed, oblique; 11 running into 

 12; whitish partly suffused with gTey and reddish; costal edge 

 reddish with some whitish strigulae; a broad, subbasal, grey 

 fascia; its anterior edge outwardly curved, irregular; its 

 posterior edge from J costa to J dorsum, forming a rather 

 large posterior tooth beneath costa, beneath this obtusely 

 indented; median area paler with indications of a suffused 

 grey median line; a grey line from | costa to | dorsum, 

 strongly outwardly curved, slightly dentate; this is followed 

 by a fine, parallel, dentate, grey line; disc beyond this 

 suffused with, pale red; a whitish, dentate, subterminal line; 

 an interrupted grey terminal line ; cilia pale reddish mixed 

 with grey, apices grey-whitish. Hindwings with termen 

 rounded; wholly suffused with pale red except extreme base; 

 some few dark-fuscous scales on veins; a pale transverse line 



