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Abdomen yellow. Legs oclireous-orange, posterior pair paler. 

 Forewings elongate, costa nearly straight, termen slightly 

 sinuate, oblique; pale yellow, strongly suffused and streaked 

 with orange; a very broad dull purplish-fuscous oblique fascia, 

 from middle of costa to middle of dorsum, anterior edge limited 

 by a fine fuscous, nearly straight line, posterior edge dentate, 

 lowest dentation continued for a short distance along fold; a 

 fine fuscous line along termen; cilia yellow, becoming fuscous 

 at apex. Hind wings and cilia pale yellowish-orange, 



Between zonodesma, Low., "and halurga, Meyr. 



Hah. — Mackay, Queensland; nine specimens in October 

 and November. 



Chelaria baliodes, n. sp. 



S , 16 mm. Head and thorax cinereous-grey. Palpi 

 grey-whitish, terminal joint with three fuscous rings. Antennae 

 grey, spotted with fuscous. Abdomen greyish-ochreous. Legs 

 fuscous, suffusedly banded with fuscous. Forewings elongate, 

 costa gently arched, termen obliquely rounded; ashy-grey- 

 whitish more or less mixed throughout with small fuscous 

 blotches; about nine small fuscous spots on costa throughout; 

 first basal, becoming obliquely fascia-like to base of dorsum ; 

 third very distinct, continued obliquely inwards to fold, more 

 or less broken beneath costa, broadest on lower two-thirds ; 

 tw^o or three short blackish- dashes between this and middle 

 of termen; one or two similar dashes on fold beneath; a fine 

 row of fuscous dots-near and parallel to termen; cilia cinereous- 

 grey, with a median row of fuscous dots throughout. Hind- 

 wings .greyish, becoming fuscous-tinged posteriorly; cilia 

 whitish. 



Hah. — Warra, South Queensland; five specimens in Sep- 

 tember and October, also a single abraded specimen from 

 Broken Hill, New South Wales, in October. 



Gelechia plinthodes, n. sp. 

 c? , 12 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dull reddish- 

 fuscous, terminal joint of palpi, with two fuscous rings. 

 Antennae fuscous, basal joint darker. Abdomen fuscous, 

 mixed with whitish laterally, and with ochreous beneath. I^egs 

 fuscous, banded with whitish, posterior pair ochreous. Fore- 

 wings elongate, moderate, costa hardly arched, termen oblique; 

 dull reddish-fuscous, somewhat finely irrorated with fuscous ; 

 costal edge finely blackish from base to three-quarters; a fine 

 black transverse mark near base, reaching half across wing ; 

 two well-defined black dots in middle of wing at one-third from 

 base, transversely placed ; indications of a small similar dot 

 between these and sub-basal mark ; a fine black dot art posterior 



