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12. Hind wings obtusely angled on veins 4 and 7; 2 from |, 

 3 and 4 widely separate, 6 and 7 separate, 8 closely approxim- 

 ated tO' cell to beyond middle. 



Type X. leptoxantha, which I formerly included, while 

 pointing out the differences, with Coelocrossa, Turn. On 

 reconsideration it appears to me generically distinct, and per- 

 haps not closely allied. Apart from minor differences the 

 structure of vein 8 of hindwings affords an important dis- 

 tinction. I suspect some affinity with Lyeiliana, Turn., and 

 Lo-phosema, Turn. 



I think this is probably, with a few other Geoinetridae, 

 part of the aboriginal fauna of the Eastern Islands before 

 they became part of the Australian continent. 



Xylodryas leptoxantha. Turn. 



I took one male on the wing by lantern light in the 

 National Park, Queensland (2,500-3,000 ft.), in December. 



The species is not confined to the mountains, for I have 

 received from Mr. G. N. Newman a very similar specimen 

 taken at Rous, near Lismore, New South Wales. A second 

 example taken in the National Park in March is a very dis- 

 tinct aberration, purplish-grey, with faint lines, little irrora- 

 tion, but a small whitish spot near base of forewing, and 

 others near termen of both wings. 



BURSADA FLAVANNULATA, Warr. 



c? , 9 ) 24-30 mm. Head and thorax blackish; face and 

 palpi ochreous-whitish or grey- whitish. Antennae blackish; 

 pectinations in male 12, in female 4. Abdomen blackish; a 

 transverse subbasal yellow or orange line on dorsum. Legs 

 fuscous. Forewings triangular, rather narrow, costa gently 

 arched, apex rounded, termen bowed, oblique; blackish; an 

 oblique oval yellow or orange blotch extending from beneath 

 I costa to above termen beyond tornus; cilia blackish. Hind- 

 wings with termen rounded ; yellow or orange ; a blackish 

 terminal band, sharply defined, broad at apex and tornus, 

 narrower on mid-termen, ending rectangularly above tornus, 

 but giving off a subdorsal streak towards base; cilia blackish. 

 Underside similar. 



Northern Queensland : Claudie Piver, in March ; two 

 specimens taken by Mr. J. A. Kershaw. Also from New 

 Guinea. 



Gen. Clepsiphron, n. gen. 



KX€\f/L<f)po}v, deceiving. 



Frons flat. Tongue present. Palpi short, porrect, pro- 

 jecting only slightly beyond frons; second joint shortly rough- 

 scaled; terminal joint very short, depressed. Antennae in 



