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Chloroclystis poliophrica, n. sp. 

 7roX.Lo<fiptKo<;, grey-rippled. 



d, 9> 13-16 mm. Head whitish. Palpi whitish, in 

 male annulated, in female irrorated with dark fuscous. 

 Antennae whitish, towards apex tinged with grey; ciliations 

 in male minute. Thorax pale fuscous; patagia whitish. 

 Abdomen whitish with some fuscous scales. Legs whitish; 

 anterior pair fuscous ; posterior tibiae with inner spurs long, 

 outer spurs ^, outer median spur absent in male. Forewings 

 in male with costa straight in basal half, strongly arched in 

 apical half, in female evenly arched throughout, apex 

 rounded, termen bowed, oblique; whitish with fuscous mark- 

 ings ; basal I of costa more or less suffused ; a number of 

 indistinct transverse lines preceding postmedian, in male 

 obsolete towards . dorsum ; postmedian line from | costa, at 

 first outwardly oblique, forming two angular posterior pro- 

 jections in disc, thence inwardly oblique to § dorsum; a 

 fuscous subterminal line, in male thickened into spots beneath 

 costa, above middle, and below middle, interrupted between 

 spots, in female more uniform ; an interrupted terminal line ; 

 cilia whitish, in male with some obscure fuscous bars. Hind- 

 wings with termen gently rounded, slightly wavy; as fore- 

 wings ; postmedian line with an angular indentation above 

 middle, and an angular projection in middle. Underside 

 fuscous-whitish. 



Queensland : Dulong, near Nambour, in December, one 

 female ; Brisbane, in April, one male type. 



Gen. MicRODES, Gn. 



This genus has two remarkable peculiarities in the neura- 

 tion of the forewing. One is the approximation of vein 5 

 at its origin to 4. This is probably secondary to the peculiar 

 sexual modification in the forewing of the male. The other is 

 that 11 runs into 12 in villosata and asystata, but has second- 

 arily disappeared altogetlier in squamidata, di'plodonto , and 

 oriochares : typhopha and melanocausta T have not examined. 



MiCRODES ORIOCHARES, n. Sp. 



6p€ioxa.pr}<s, rejoicing in the mountains. 

 d" , 9 5 18-20 mm. Head dark fuscous. Palpi in male 4, 

 in female 4^; dark fuscous. Antennae fuscous; in male 

 thickened and slightly laminate, ciliations -|. Legs fuscous; 

 anterior pair dark fuscous ; anterior and middle tarsi with 

 ochreous-whitish annulations. Forewings with costa moder- 

 ately and evenly arched, apex round-pointed, termen bowed, 

 moderately oblique; fuscous; a slender, obscure, outwardly 



