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Hah.— Queensland : Brisbane, in November; one 

 specimen. 



Atheropla psammodes. 



Saropla psammodes. Turn. : ante, 1898, p. 211. 



9 only known. Extremely similar to A. melichlora, 

 but the dot on fold is distinctly posterior to first discal dot ; 

 there is an additional subcostal discal dot beyond the first, 

 and the postmedian discal dot is double. 



Hab. — Queensland: Brisbane. 



Antiopala ebenospila, n. sp. (e/?€voo-7riAos, with ebony spots). 



d , 12-14 mm. Head white. Palpi whitish, basal § and 

 a subapical ring on second joint, a sub-basal ring and extreme 

 apex of terminal joint fuscous. Antennae fuscous ; ciliations 

 in male 5. Thorax whitish, a spot on base of palpi partly 

 dark-fuscous, partly ochreous. Abdomen whitish, bases of 

 segments sometimes ochreous-brown. Legs fuscous; tibiae 

 and tarsi annulated with ochreous-whitish ; posterior pair 

 ochreous-whitish. Forewings narrow, costa gently arched, 

 apex round-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; ochreous- 

 whitish with some ochreous-fuscous irroration; markings 

 black ; a basal costal dot and another on dorsum near base ; 

 a spot on i costa, and another larger on mid-costa ; a dot in 

 disc at g, a second beneath it on fold sometimes connected 

 suffusedly with dorsum, a third below middle, a fourth before 

 | ; a line of dots from f costa, angled inwards beneath costa, 

 and continued close to termen to tornus ; cilia ochreous- 

 whitish. Hindwings whitish-grey ; cilia grey. 



The second joint of palpi is shorter than in the type 

 species, A. tephraea, Meyr., otherwise it agrees. There is no 

 antennal pecten. 



Hab. — Queensland: Mount Tambourine, in September; 

 Southport, in August ; four specimens. 



Gen. Trachyzancla, nov. 

 (Tpaxv£ay/o\os, with rough sickles [palpi]). 



Palpi with second joint very lc^g (about twice length of 

 face), slightly roughened anteriorly, posteriorly towards apex 

 expanded with long rough hairs; terminal joint about j, 

 slender. Antennae with moderate basal pecten ; in male with 

 rather long ciliations. Thorax smooth. Forewings with 2 

 and 3 stalked, 7 to termen. 



Allied to Chezala, from which it differs in the peculiarly 

 roughened palpi. The type species in its peculiar colouring 

 shows a remarkable resemblance to Eochrois rnagniferella, a 

 species which is structurally very different, and inhabits the 

 furthest extremity of the continent. 



