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Thorax fuscous, mixed with whitish. Abdomen grey, paler 

 towards base, tuft grey-whitish. Legs fuscous; tarsi annu- 

 lated with whitish; posterior pair and middle femora whitish. 

 Forewings strongly dilated posteriorly, costa strongly arched 

 beyond middle, apex rectangular, termen straight, rounded 

 beneath, not oblique; fuscous, mixed with brownish and 

 whitish; costa with alternate dark-fuscous and whitish 

 strigulae; a whitish spot in disc at J below middle, closely 

 followed by a second spot; a squarish brown spot in disc at 

 f, nearer costa than dorsum; a tranversely oval white 

 spot, edged with fuscous, immediately following this; a 

 brown-whitish subterminal shade, partly crossed by six dark- 

 fuscous striae; (cilia abraded). Hindwings dark-grey; cilia 

 grey, on dorsum whitish. 



Bah. — Northern Queensland: Kuranda, near Cairns, in 

 April; one specimen received from F. P. Dodd. 



Argyroploce mysterica, n. sp. (//.vo-r^pi/cos, mystical). 



d , 17-18 mm. Head fuscous. Palpi 2; fuscous, mixed 

 with whitish. Antennae grey; ciliations in male minute. 

 Thorax fuscous, somewhat greenish-tinged, with an incomplete 

 transverse whitish line before middle and some whitish points. 

 Abdomen fuscous, apex of tuft whitish. Legs fuscous, with 

 some whitish irroration, and whitish rings on tarsi; posterior 

 pair mostly whitish. Forewings dilated posteriorly, costa 

 mo&erately arched, apex rounded-rectangular, termen slightly 

 rounded, scarcely oblique ; whitish, partly purple-tinged, with 

 some green and fuscous irroration ; markings dark-green, 

 partly mixed with dark-fuscous; a squarish spot on \ costa, 

 preceded and followed by minute costal strigulae; an 

 irregular spot at ^ on fold; a large irregular blotch beyond 

 middle extending to costa, but not to dorsum, sharply defined 

 anteriorly and dorsally, where it forms a sharp angle, but 

 fading posteriorly into a fuscous shade; three pairs of white 

 strigulae on apical half of costa; a subterminal fascia com- 

 mencing in a rounded extremity beneath costa and extending 

 to tornus, its edges irregularly dentate; a small irregular 

 dark-fuscous blotch on midtermen, with two dark-fuscous 

 terminal dots above and two beneath it ; cilia purple-grey, 

 towards tornus grey-whitish. Hindwings fuscous ; cilia 

 whitish, with a grey basal line, at apex purple-tinged. 



Hob. — Northern Queensland: Kuranda, near Cairns, in 

 June ; Stannary Hills. Two specimens. 



Gen. Analdes, nov. (avaXSrjs, feeble). 



Antennae of male minutely ciliated. Palpi rather short, 

 obliquely ascending; second joint with projecting scales above 



