New Micro-Lepidoptera— mostly from 

 Queensland. 



By A. Jefferis Turner, M.D., F.E.S., Brisbane. 

 [Read December 5, 1899.] 



XYLORYCTID^E. 



This family is now merged by Mr. Meyrick in the Gelechiadce, 

 but as the Australian Gelechiadce, Avith the exception of this 

 section, have not yet received systematic treatment, it is con- 

 venient to retain the above designation for the present. The 

 present contribution is supplementary to my paper on the 

 " Queensland Xyloryctidce," in the Annals of the Queensland 

 Museum, No. 4, 1897. 



PILOSTIBES, Meyr. 



Forewings with veins 7 and 8 stalked or coincident, 7 to costa. 



On reconsideration, I have determined to retain this genus, 

 altering the definition as above, and regarding P. enchidias, 

 Me\r., as the type; referring P. stigmatias, Meyr., to Xylorycta. 



PlLOSTIBES TRACHYPTERA, 71. Sp. 



Female, 40 mm. Head brown-whitish. Palpi brown-whitish; 

 terminal joint and apex of second joint white. Antenna? grey. 

 Thorax brown-whitish. Abdomen whitish. Legs brown-whitish ; 

 anterior tibiae and tarsi much thickened with scales. Forewings 

 posteriorly dilated, costa rather strongly arched, apex round- 

 pointed, hindmargin straight, slightly oblique ; veins 7 and 8 

 coincident ; brown-whitish, suffused with reddish-brown and 

 fuscous-brown, with five or six tufts of raised scales ; a dark- 

 fuscous oblique mark on costa at one-fourth ; paler fuscous marks 

 on costa at middle, three-fourths, and two more between last and 

 apex ; an ill-defined blackish streak in disc above middle, and 

 several tine blackish streaks along veins in posterior portion of 

 disc ; cilia brown-whitish, with an incomplete darker basal line. 

 Hindwings brown-whitish ; cilia whitish, at apex pale fuscous. 



A very distinct species, apparently referable here, but the 

 male is wanted to establish this with certainty. The raised tufts 

 of scales on forewings are a peculiar character. 



Palmwoods, Queensland (60 miles north of Brisbane); one 

 specimen taken by Mr. R. H. Relton. 



