54 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND. 
26. Xyleutes polyploca Turn. 
Ann. Q. Mus. 1911, p.130; Obthr. Lep. Comp. xl, p.6, PI. f.61-67. 
North Australia: Darwin. North Queensland: Cairns; ML 
Mulligan. New South Wales : Brunswick Hds. 
27. Xyleutes euplecta n.sp. 
€V7r\eKTos 3 well woven. 
8 , 66 mm. Head grey ; face whitish. Palpi one-half ; fuscous * 
lower surface white. Antennae white ; pectinations in male 3 and a half ; 
dark fuscous. Thorax fuscous ; patagia and tegulae white sprinkled 
with fuscous. Abdomen whitish ; a median stripe and terminal segments 
grey. Legs whitish; tarsi dark fuscous with white rings. Forewings 
narrow, costa straight, apex pointed, termen very oblique; grey- whitish 
with very numerous fine dark fuscous strigulae; a narrow costal strip 
from base to two -thirds white with few strigulae ; cilia white with dark 
fuscous bars. Hindwings with termen scarcely rounded; white; a few 
terminal dark strigulae; cilia as for forewings. 
West Australia: Carnarvon (Edmond Station) in June (J. C. 
Carnaby) ; one specimen. Type in Queensland Museum. 
28. Xyleutes polyspora n.sp. 
Tro\vo7Topos , many-spotted. 
8 , 60 mm. Head fuscous mixed with whitish. Palpi 1 ; dark fuscous, 
beneath whitish. Antennae whitish; in male bipectinate to four-fifths, 
pectinations 5, fuscous. Thorax fuscous mixed with whitish ; with a black 
inverted U-mark. Abdomen whitish barred with dark fuscous. Fore- 
wings narrow, costa almost straight, apex rounded, termen very obliquely 
rounded; pale grey with a broad longitudinal central shade before 
middle whitish; the whole wing closely packed with minute blackish 
strigulae beneath median shade ; several shorter narrower similar streaks 
between veins in terminal area; cilia white with blackish bars. Hind- 
wings with termen slightly sinuate ; white with some faint fuscous 
bars. 
South Australia: Wardang I. (W. M. Mules) ; one specimen lent 
for description by Mr. F. E. Wilson, who has the type. 
29. Xyleutes tanyctena n.sp. 
tclvvkt€vos, with long combs. 
8 , 108 mm. Head grey. Palpi 1 ; grey. Antennae ochreous- whitish ; 
'pectinations in male 5, fuscous, terminal eighth only simple. Thorax 
grey with an inverted blackish Y-mark. Abdomen white, towards apex 
grey. Legs grey. Forewings elongate, costa straight to middle, thence 
arched, apex round-pointed, termen nearly straight, oblique ; whitish 
strigulated, and towards costa and dorsum broadly suffused, with fuscous r 
leaving a median whitish stripe; towards termen grey reticulated with 
fuscous; cilia fuscous, apices partly whitish. Hindwings with termen 
slightly rounded ; white, towards apex grey- whitish ; terminal edge 
reticulated with fuscous and with fuscous dots on ends of veins; cilia 
white, on dots fuscous. 
Queensland: Morven (E. E. Barnard); one specimen. Type in 
Queensland Museum. 
