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forming a transverse crescentic mark; a spot on f costa giving 

 rise to a subterminal line angled beneath costa ; some terminal 

 dots and an apical fuscous suffusion ; cilia grey- whitish, bases 

 ochreous tinged. Hindwings pale-grey; cilia as forewings. 



Readily distinguished from N . foedatella by the ochreous 

 head. 



Hab. — Queensland: Goodna, near Brisbane, in October; 

 two specimens. 



Nephogenes thiocrossa, n. sp. (OeioKpocro-os, sulphur-edged). 



d , 9 ) 21-23 mm. Head pale-yellow. Palpi whitish, 

 external surface of second joint, except apex, fuscous. 

 Antennae pale-grey; ciliations in male 2|. Thorax whitish, 

 bases of patagia and a posterior spot fuscous. Abdomen 

 whitish-ochreous, bases of segments on dorsum brownish. 

 Legs fuscous : posterior pair pale-ochreous. Forewings 

 moderate, not dilated, costa gently arched, apex round- 

 pointed, termen obliquely rounded; ochreous- whitish ; mark- 

 ings dark-fuscous ; a narrow basal fascia ; a costal streak, 

 broad in middle, attenuated at extremities from -g- to f ; a 

 discal dot at A, a second slightly beyond it on fold, a third 

 above middle, a fourth at §, a fifth beneath fourth, some- 

 times giving rise to a fine streak inwards along lower edge 

 of cell ; a short inwardly-oblique streak from costa before 

 apex, sometimes connected by a dark-fuscous suffusion with 

 fifth dot, giving rise to a fine dotted subterminal line ; cilia 

 pale-ochreous, apices whitish. Hindwings pale-grey; cilia as 

 forewings. 



H ab.- -Queensland : Gympie, in April; Nambour, in 

 April; Stradbroke. Island, in January; Rosewood, in March; 

 Stanthorpe, in February; ten specimens. 



Nephogenes syncolla, n. sp. (truy/coAXo?, closely joined). 



9 , 25 mm. Head pale-ochreous. Palpi fuscous, apex 

 of second joint and base of terminal joint ochreous-whitish. 

 Antennae fuscous. Thorax pale-ochreous, patagia fuscous. 

 Abdomen brownish-fuscous, apices of segments whitish- 

 ochreous. Legs fuscous ; posterior pair whitish-ochreous. 

 Forewings slightly dilated, costa moderately arched, apex 

 round-pointed, termen obliquely rounded ; ochreous-whitish ; 

 markings fuscous ; a broad costal streak from base, narrowing 

 to a point beyond middle ; a broad streak on base of dorsum; 

 a discal dot before ij, a second beyond it on fold, a third 

 above middle, a fourth before §, a fifth beneath and connected 

 with fourth ; a broad streak inwards from f costa, bent out- 

 wards beneath costa, and bent again and continued as a 

 subterminal line to tornus : some terminal dots ; some fuscous 

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