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RHODONEURA POLYGRAPHALIS. 
Pyralis? polygraphalis, Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1240. 
Siculodes rhythmiea, Meyr., Tr. E.S. 18S7, p. 201. 
N. A. Port Darwin, 9, 10, 11. N.Q. Thursday Island; Kuranda, 
5, 9; Herberton. Also from Solomons, Ceylon, and India. 
t RHODONEURA ALBIFERALIS. 
Pyralis albiferalis, Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1524. 
N.Q. Cooktown. Also from New Gruinea and Batchian. 
RHODONEURA HYPARGYRA. 
Iihodoneura hypargyra, Hmps., Moths Ind. i, p. 357. 
Siculodes mochlias, Meyr., Tr. E.S. 1894, p. 479. 
N.Q. Cape York, 8 ; Kuranda, 10. Two specimens in Coll. 
Lyell. Also from India. 
RHODONEURA CRYPSILITHA n. sp. 
\_Kpvif/L\i6os, with hidden jewels.] 
9- 18 mm. Head, palpi, antenna?, and thorax brownish- 
fuscous. Palpi obliquely ascending ; terminal joint f . Abdomen 
pale ochreous-fuscous. Legs brown-whitish ; posterior pair paler. 
Forewings elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, more strongly 
towards apex, apex round-pointed, termen sinuate, slightly bowed, 
oblique ; pale dull-reddish, with numerous faint fuscous transverse 
strigulae ; cilia pale fuscous-reddish. Hindwings with termen 
slightly rounded ; similar to forewings but fuscous strigukc more 
pronounced. Underside similar ; forewings with an irregular 
fuscous suffusion above tornus, and a triangular fuscous mark on 
termen beneath apex ; lower half of basal f of cell occupied by a 
thick black line interrupted by numerous bars of lustrous iridescent 
scales ; above and below this are numerous fine black longitudinal 
streaks ; another patch of these streaks immediately beyond ceil. 
Type in Coll. Turner. 
Q. Brisbane, in December ; one specimen. 
