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ocelli, and anteiinal funicle black; legs, antennal scape, and 

 pedicel reddish-yellow. Forewings when closed extending a 

 little beyond tip of abdomen ; very broad ; much infuscated, 

 with light areas : marginal cilia very short ; discal cilia dense, 

 arranged in about fifty rows. Head and thorax rugulose; 

 first and second abdominal segments striate. Length, 2*50 mm. 



Described from a single specimen labelled "On windows of 

 State Farm, October 6, 1911." 



Hah. — South Queensland: Roma (A. A. Girault). 



Type. — I. 1394, South Australian Museum. A male, 

 tagmounted, plus a slide bearing male antennae and forewings. 



Grenus Plastogryon, Kieffer. 

 Plastogryon fasciatipennis, sp. nov. 



c . Brownish-black : legs slightly suffused with yellow. 

 Head transverse, wider than the thorax ; ocelli in a triangle, 

 the lateral ones touching the eye margins ; maxilliary palpi 

 2-3ointed : mandibles bidentate ( ?). Antennse 12-jointed; 

 scape long and slender ; pedicel one-half longer than wide ; 

 first funicle- joint longer than the pedicel ; second shorter than 

 first, no longer than pedicel; 3-9 subequal, as long as wide; 

 last funicle- joint as long as first. Thorax one-half longer than 

 wide : mesonotum without parapsidal furrows. Forewings 

 broad ; rather short ; first third of wing and a band at the 

 middle, hyaline ; rest of wing much infuscated ; marginal cilia 

 moderately long ; discal cilia sparse, arranged in about sixteen 

 rows : submarginal vein attaining the costa before the middle 

 of the wing ; marginal vein a little longer than the stigmal, 

 which is rather long, a little oblique ; postmarginal vein one- 

 half longer than the marginal. Abdomen sessile : as wide as 

 the thorax and scarcely longer ; first segment striate ; second 

 segment the longest, a little longer than the first ; third one- 

 half as long as the second. Length, 1*25 mm. 



Described from a single specimen captured by sweeping 

 in forest, January 7, 1913. 



Hah. — North Queensland: Pentland (A. A. Girault). 



Tyjjc. — I. 1395, South Australian Museum. A male, 

 tagmounted, plus a slide bearing head, antennae, and 

 f orewing . 



Platyteleia, nov. gen. 



d" . Head transverse, wider than the thorax. Antennse 

 12-jointed; scape long and slender; first funicle-joint narrowed 

 at the base, longer than the pedicel ; second and third a little 

 narrowed at the base, shorter than first ; 4-9 subequal, sub- 

 quadrate, a little longer than wide ; last joint distinctly longer 

 than first funicle-joint. Forewings when close extending well 



