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New Australian Lepidoptera. 



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



[Read April 8, 1920.] 

 TORTRICIDAE. 



MiCTONEURA EURYPELTA, 11. sp. 



(S , 14 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and tliorax dull 

 ochreous, palpi infuscated above, except base. Abdomen 

 greyisli-oclireous. Legs dull oclireous. Forewings elongate, 

 costa gently arched, termen hardly oblique; ochreous-grey, 

 suffusedly irrorated with pale fuscous; a large well-marked, 

 fuscous, triangular patch on costa at one-third, its apex 

 obtuse, reaching about one-third across wing ; two fine fuscous 

 dots on costa, between base and patch; a row of fine fuscous 

 dots along costa, from middle to apex, continued along termen 

 to tornus; cilia dull ochreous. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Known at once by the triangular costal patch. 



Hab. — Cairns district. North Queensland; two specimens 

 received from Mr. F. P. Dodd, taken in October. 



Argyroploce drymoptila, n. sp. 



(S , 16 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax fuscous, 

 mixed with darker fuscous. Abdom^en fuscous. Legs whitish- 

 grey, banded with fuscous, posterior pair fuscous. Forewings 

 elongate, moderate, costa gently arched, termen faintly 

 sinuate beneath apex; fuscous; costa shortly strigulated with 

 oblique darker fuscous marks, arranged in pairs, interspaces 

 dull ochreous; all veins more or less outlined with dark fus- 

 cous, interspaces more or less filled in with dull whitish; an 

 obscure, dull-ochreous, roundish blotch on middle of dorsum, 

 more or less continued to tornus, its upper edge reaching 

 about one- third across wing; cilia grey- whitish, becoming 

 fuscous in middle, and with a whitish subapical line. Hind- 

 wings with termen rather strongly sinuate in middle ; white 

 or grey- whitish, apical half pale fuscous ; sometimes dorsum 

 with a few fuscous scales; cilia pale fuscous. 



Hah. — Cairns district, North Queensland; three speci- 

 mens, in October, received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



OECOPHORIDAE. 



Heliocausta charodes, n. sp. 

 d , 24-26 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax 

 ochreous-grey, palpi somewhat pinkish tinged. Abdomen 



