



Mt. Tambourine, Queensland : a dozen specimens taken at one 

 spot in Xoveinber. 



Orxix aceobaphes. n. sp. 



Male, 11 mm. Head and palpi white. Antenna? grev, 

 Thorax grey (?). Abdomen grey, tuft white. Legs white, 

 annulated with fuscous : anterior pair mostly fuscous. Forewings 

 narrow-elongate : grey, markings white, a broad streak alone 

 inner-margin, several very short streaks from costa : ante-apical 

 portion of disc mostly white, containing two short parallel longi- 

 tudinal dark-fuscous streaks : apical portion white, enclosed in a 

 triangular fuscous line, and containing a grey blotch, with 

 central dark-fuscous spot : cilia white, at apex with apices dark- 

 fuscous, at anal angle grey. Hindwings grey, apical half intense 

 black, the boundary line is irregular ; cilia grey. 



Closely allied to the preceding, but at once distinguished by 

 the blackish hindwings. The type is not in perfect condition. 

 Brisbane, Queensland : one specimen in -Tanuarv. 



LEIOPBORA, n. g. 



Head smooth. Tongue short. Antenna? considerablv over 

 one, in male simple, basal joint dilated and concave beneath to 

 form eyecap. Labial palpi short, filiform, drooping, pointed. 

 Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior tibire with short stiff 

 hairs on upper surface. Fore wings with 1 b furcate at base, 

 transverse vein rudimentary, 3 and -4 absent, 6, 7, and 9 stalked, 

 7 to costa. S absent. Hindwings linear, cell open, 3, 4, 5, and 6 

 absent. 



Allied to Lyoiietia, Hb., and Phyllocnislis, Zel. Distinguish- 

 able from the former by the smooth head, and from the latter by 

 the long antennae, also by the neuration. 



LEIOPBORA ASCEPTA, 71. Sjj. 



Male and female. 5-7 mm. Head ochreous-fuscous, face and. 

 palpi white. Antenna? greyish, basal joint whitish. Thorax 

 ochreous-fuscous. Abdomen grey. Legs whitish, anterior tibia? 

 and tarsi fuscous. Forewings narrow-elongate : ochreous-fuscous, 

 with golden reflections ; an indistinct fuscous suffusion on base 

 of inner-margin, and another on costa before middle : a suffused 

 fuscous line from inner-margin at two-thirds obliquely through 

 disc to apex ; cilia whitish, apices fuscous, at anal angle grey, 

 with a blackish apical dot, edged towards costa with a few golden- 

 metallic scales. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Brisbane, Queensland : taken rather commonly on fences from 

 June to September. 



