HQ ANNALS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM 
Gen. MICEOTALIS hov, 
[fiiKpos, small ; raAis, a maiden.] 
Frons flattened, without prominence. Tongue present but 
weakly developed. Labial palpi long, porrect. Maxillary palpi 
triangularly dilated. Fore wings with all veins present, 7 separate, 
S and 9 stalked, 11 running into 12. Hindwings with 4 and 5 
stalked, or 5 absent, 6 from well below angle of cell. 
Differs from Talis in the absence of any frontal projection and 
in vein 11 running into 12. 
Type M. epimetalla. 
MICHOTALIS EPIMETALLA n. sp. 
[e7n,/xeraAAo5, overlaid with metal.] 
9- 10-12 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax fuscous. 
Abdomen grey. Lei^s fuscous ; tarsi annulated with whitish ; 
posterior pair except tarsi whitish, Forewings elongate-triangular, 
costa rather strongly arched, apex rounded, termen bowed, oblique ; 
fuscous mixed with whitish; an incomplete suffused median whitish 
fascia; a silvery discal dot at -f ; a fine silvery transverse line at 
|- bowed outwards above middle ; a broad, interrupted, subterminal 
whitish fascia ; cilia grey with silvery reflections. Hmdwings 
with termen rounded ; vein 5 absent ; grey ; cilia grey. 
Type in Coll. Turner. 
N.A. Port Darwin, in October ; two specimens received from 
Mr. F. P Dodd. 
MICROTALIS AjUOCAPNA n. sp. 
[aKpoKcnrvos, fuscous at the apex.] 
(J. 16 mm. Head and thorax whitifh irrorated. Math ochreous- 
fuscous. Palpi whitish irrorated with fuscous. Antenna? whitish 
witli fuscous annulatioi.s. Abdomen whitish Legs whitish ; inner 
aspect of spurs fuscous. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa 
scarcely arched, apex acute, slightly produced, termen sinuate, 
oblique ; whitish j obscurely streaked with brownish-ochreous mixed 
with dark-fuscous ; a fine subcostal streak from base to } ; short fine 
oblique streaks from cost a at j. and | ; a broad irregular median 
streak from base giving off several suffused streaks dorsally, and 
