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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN M ICRO-LEPI DOPTE RA. 



By Oswald B. Lower, F.E.S., F.Z.S., etc. 

 [Read October 12, 1916.] 



TORTRICINA. 

 PHALONIADAE. 



Heliocosma argyroleuca, n. sp. 



<S , 18 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax white, 

 antennae tinged with ochreous, sometimes wholly ochreous. 

 Abdomen grey-whitish. Legs greyish, anterior and middle 

 pair infuscated. Forewings triangular, costa slightly arched 

 towards apex ; dull shining-white ; markings fuscous ; an 

 oblique transverse narrow fascia, from above dorsum beyond 

 middle to below costa at about two-thirds, edged posteriorly 

 throughout with silvery-white, and anteriorly with pale 

 ochreous ; a narrow subcostal streak parallel and anterior to 

 first streak ; all veins towards termen finely outlined in silvery- 

 white, the interspaces irregularly filled in with ochreous- 

 fuscous ; an inwardly oblique apical streak, irregularly edged 

 with silvery-white ; from its lower extremity proceeds a curved 

 silvery-white narrow fascia to just above tornus; some silvery- 

 wliite spots along termen ; cilia silvery-white, with an ochreous 

 bar at tornus. Hindwings very pale-fuscous; cilia whitish- 

 fuscous, terminal half whitish-ochreous. 



Allied to incongruana, Walk., but distinct by the silvery 

 markings. 



Hab. — Queensland: Warra, five specimens, in October. 



TORTRICIDAE. 



Tortrtx eveleena, n. sp. 



d , 9 '■> 20-22 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous- 

 white, terminal joint of palpi somewhat infuscated. Antennae 

 fuscous. Abdomen ochreous. Anterior and middle legs fus- 

 cous, banded with white, posterior pair ochreous- white. Fore- 

 wings elongate, costa hardly arched, termen oblique, slightly 

 rounded ; pale ochreous-white, with purplish-leaden coloured 

 markings ; three or four small costal dots, between base and 

 anterior edge of median patch ; an isoscelif orm mark on 

 dorsum at one-quarter, reaching about one-third across wing • 



