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' Laspeyresia Ferrari a, ii. sp. fferrarius, relating to iron). 



9, 12 mm. Head reddish-brown; face brown -whitish. 

 Palpi 1^; brown-whitish, with some fuscous irroration. 

 Antennae fuscous. Thorax reddish-brown. Abdomen fuscous, 

 towards base reddish-brown. Legs fuscous; posterior pair 

 fuscous- whitish. Forewings slightly dilated posteriorly, costa 

 nearly straight to middle, thence slightly sinuate, apex round- 

 pointed, termen bowed, oblique; fuscous, with reddish-brown 

 suffusion, especially near base and fold; five fine dark-fuscous 

 oblique costal streaks, rather broadly margined with reddish- 

 brown, second and third streaks moderately long, the others 

 short ; three oblique leaden-metallic costal streaks, of these 

 the two posterior are long, angled in disc, and broadly pro- 

 longed to tornus, enclosing a reddish-brown ocellus, which 

 contains three short blackish streaks; cilia brown, mixed with 

 fuscous. Hindwings fuscous, towards base paler; cilia 

 fuscous. 



Hah. — Queensland: Brisbane, in March; one specimen. 



Laspeyresia dyserasta, n. sp. (8wepao-ros, unlovely). 



9 , 9 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous. Palpi 

 3|; fuscous, lower-edge whitish. (Antennae broken.) Legs 

 fuscous ; posterior pair grey ; under-surf ace whitish ; tarsi 

 annulated with whitish. Forewings very strongly dilated 

 posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen 

 indented beneath apex, scarcely rounded, oblique; fuscous; 

 a suffused whitish spot in disc at -§ ; a series of whitish costal 

 strigulae increasing in distinctness towards apex ; a dark- 

 fuscous line from midcosta, very obliquely outwards, sharply 

 angled in disc, ending on ^ dorsum ; this is preceded and 

 followed by imperfect dull bluish-metallic lines ; a similar 

 dark-fuscous line from \ costa to indentation, there angled 

 and continued as a subterminal line to dorsum before tornus; 

 a dull bluish-metallic line follows this as far as termen ; a 

 dark-fuscous subapical dot and three others on termen beneath 

 indentation; cilia fuscous. Hindwings fuscous; cilia grey, 

 with a fuscous basal line. 



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

 November; one specimen, received from F. P. Dodd. 



Laspeyresia polymetalla, n. sp. (-oAv/xeraAAog, richly metallic )„ 



<3 , 8 mm. Head fuscous; face whitish. Palpi 2; 

 whitish, towards apex greyish. Antennae fuscous; ciliations 

 in male imperceptible. Thorax fuscous; patagia mixed with 

 whitish. Abdomen grey. Legs whitish; anterior tibiae and 

 tarsi annulated with fuscous. Forewings scarcely dilated. 



