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basal line interrupted by brown-whitish. Hindwings with 

 -6 and 7 connate; fuscous; cilia fuscous. 



Hab. — Queensland: Brisbane, in August; one specimen. 



Paranepsia phaulera, n. sp. (^avXepos, mean, paltry). 



(5 ', 12 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax whitish-grey. 

 Antennae grey-whitish annulated with dark-fuscous; cilia- 

 tions in male 1. Abdomen grey-whitish. Legs ochreous- 

 whitish ; anterior pair pale-grey. Forewings not dilated, 

 •costa strongly and evenly arched, apex rounded, term en 

 obliquely rounded ; 7 to apex ; whitish-grey, with slight 

 fuscous irroration; a rather large basal patch indicated by 

 fuscous irroration, bounded by a straight line from J costa 

 to \ dorsum; median fascia indicated by two fine parallel 

 fuscous lines from about middle of costa to dorsum before 

 tornus, very indistinct towards dorsum ; a squarish fuscous 

 spot on \ costa, and some fuscous irroration above tornus; 

 cilia grey-whitish. Hindwings with 6 and 7 stalked; grey- 

 whitish; cilia grey-whitish. 



Hab. — Northern Queensland: Townsville, in June; one 

 specimen received from F. P. Dodd. 



Scolioplecta araea, ii. sp. (dpcuos, weak, slight). 



S , 10 mm. Head and palpi whitish. Antennae whitish, 

 with some fuscous annulations towards base; ciliations in 

 male minute. Thorax whitish, anterior margin ochreous. 

 Abdomen pale-grey. Legs whitish; anterior and middle 

 tibiae and all tarsi annulated with fuscous. Forewings 

 slightly dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex 

 rounded, termen nearly straight, scarcely oblique; whitish, 

 with some fine fuscous strigulae ; costa barred with many 

 fuscous dots at regular intervals; some ochreous irroration 

 towards base; an ochreous transverse fascia from \ costa to 

 \ dorsum ; a second similar but broader fascia from mid- 

 costa to dorsum beyond middle; a third fascia from f costa 

 to termen above tornus, ochreous near costa, but mainly 

 composed of fine fuscous strigulae; an oblique subapical 

 fuscous costal bar joining a fine fuscous terminal line; cilia 

 whitish, on costa with fuscous apices. Hindwings and cilia 

 pale-grey. 



Hab. — Northern Territory: Darwin, in March; one 

 specimen received from F. P. Dodd. 



Scolioplecta ochrophylla, n. sp. (a>x/oo<£i;AAos, pale-winged). 



9 , 14 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi ochreous- 

 whitish, apex of second joint broadly fuscous. Antennae 



