LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1007 



Female. White. Head with a porrect frontal tuft and with a 

 fan-shaped tuft on each side. Proboscis very short. Palpi pale 

 yellowish, smooth, slender, decumbent, shorter than the breadth of 

 the head ; third joint lanceolate, hardly half the length of the second. 

 Antennae shorter than the fore wings. Anterior legs with blackish 

 stripes. Wings narrow. Fore wings rounded at the tips, with 

 several irregular blackish marks along two-thirds of the length of 

 the interior border, with three oblique fawn-coloured costal streaks, 

 and with a fawn-coloured apical patch, which contains two curved 

 deep black streaks. Hind wings pale cinereous; fringe very long. 

 Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



a. Moieton Bay. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



Tinea comptella. 



Mas. Pallide flava ; caput posticum purpureo marginatum ; 

 thorax purpureus ; alee anticce apice rotundatce, basi striga 

 costali fasciisque duabus connexis purpureis ; posticce cuprece. 



Male. Pale yellow, smooth, broad, purplish cupreous beneath. 

 Head flat, very short, dark purple on each side and behind. Palpi 

 porrect, smooth, slender, extending a little beyond the head ; third 

 joint elongate-conical, shorter than the second. Antennae smooth. 

 Thorax dark purple. Fore wings rounded at the tips, dark purple 

 at the base and with two dark purple bands ; first band oblique, 

 broadest in front ; second curved, joining the middle of the first 

 band ; a costal streak extending from the base nearly to the first 

 band. Hind wings cupreous. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the 

 wings 10 lines. 



a. Tasmania, From Mr. A. J. Smith's collection. 



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(Tinea bisignella. 



Foem. Cupreo-fusca ; caput anlice pilosum, flavescens ; palpi 

 breves, graciles ; alee anticce angustcv, apice rotundatce, plaga 

 costali albida. 



Female. Cupreous-brown, slender. Head yellowish and pilose 

 in front. Palpi short, smooth, slender. Antennae slender, nearly 

 as long as the fore wings. Abdomen long. Legs smooth. Wings 

 narrow. Fore wings rounded at the tips, with a whitish patch on 



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