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PEDOIS, Meyr. (MSS.). 



Head with appressed scales, side tufts forming a cone-like 

 projection over face. Antennae in male simple, pecten absent. 

 Palpi long, second joint exceeding base of antennae, terminal 

 joint shorter than second, slender, acute. Forewings elongate- 

 oblong, 1 b furcate at base, from junction branching again, 

 lower branch terminating abruptly before reaching margin, 2 and 

 3 from before anal angle, 6 to apex or costa, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 

 to costa. Hind wings 1 or slightly over 1, veins 3 and 4 connate, 

 6 and 7 parallel. Posterior tibiae long-haired. 



I have representatives of six species, which may be tabulated 

 thus — 



1. Vein 6 to costa ... ... ... ... 2. 



Vein 6 to apex ... ... ... ... 3. 



2. Forewings with long streaks parallel to veins ... tripunctella, Walk. 

 Forewings without long streaks parallel to veins cosmopoda, n. sp. 



3. Second joint of palpi with a minute posterior tuft 



before apex ... ... ... ... neurosticha, Lower 



Second joint of palpi without a minute posterior 



tuft before apex ... ... ... ... 4. 



4. Hindwings yellow ... ... ... ... eurnorpha, Meyr. 



Hind wings not yellow ... ... ... 5. 



5. Forewings orange-ochreous ... ... ... humerana, Walk. 



Forewings reddish ... ... ... ... rhodomita, n. sp. 



Pedois eumerana, Walk. 



Armiclale (3,500 ft.) and Tenterfield (3,000 ft.), New South 

 Wales, in February. 



Pedois eurnorpha, Meyr. (MSS.). 

 Armidale (3,500 ft.), New South Wales, in October. 



Pedois neurosticha, Lower. 



Proc. Roy. Soc, S.A., 1894, p. 112. 



Gisborne, Victoria, in January; two specimens received from 

 Mr. S. Lyell. 



Pedois tripunctella, Walk. 



Brisbane, Queensland, in August and September. 



Pedois cosmopoda, n. sp. 



Male and female, 16-18 mm. Head and thorax grey, irrorated 

 with whitish-grey ; face whitish. Palpi whitish ; second joint 

 with a dark-fuscous subapical ring, and dark-fuscous basal and 

 medium bars on external surface ; terminal joint dark-fuscous 

 anteriorly, posteriorly pinkish-tinged. Antennae whitish, pinkish- 

 tinged, annulated with dark-fuscous. Abdomen whitish- grey. 

 Legs whitish ; anterior and middle tibiae pinkish, annulated with 

 dark -fuscous. Forewings elongate-oblong, costa strongly arched 



