TYPES OE LEPIDOPTERA, 
with dark-fuscous, which forms an ill-defined basal patch, dentate 
postmedian line, and terminal line, cilia dark-fuscous, apices 
ochreous interrupted with fuscous. Hind wings with termen 
rounded ; orange-ochreous with scanty dark-fuscous irroration 
towards termen, cilia concolorous. 
9 . Head, thorax, palpi, antennae, legs, and abdominal tuft 
whitish ; wings represented, by narrow linear-lanceolate whitish 
rudiments, sufficiently long to reach middle of abdomen. 
Victoria : Williamstown, near Melbourne ; Ocean Grange, near 
Sale. 
ClRPHIS DASYCNEMA, SP. NOV. 
SafTVKPriflOC, with hairy shins. 
$ 9 , 36-40 mm. Head, thorax, and palpi grey-whitish, with 
scanty blackish irroration, external surface of palpi in t purplish 
tinged. Antennae grey, towards base grey-whitish ; ciliations in f 
bristles 1. Abdomen grey-whitish. Legs whitish, with sparse 
blackish, irroration ; anterior femora in S densely hairy and ante i ior 
tibise with immense fuscous-purple tufts. Fore wings elongate- 
triangular, costa nearly straight ; apex rounded, termen scarcely 
oblique, rounded beneath ; grey-whitish with sparse blackish 
irroration, and sometimes some patchy purple-grey suffusion; 
a white postmedian discal dot immediately preceded by a blackish 
dot; a row of dark-fuscous dots at £ parallel to termen ; a series 
of minute terminal dots ; cilia grey-whitish, tinged with purplish, 
with a fuscous subapical line. Hind wings with termen wavy ; 
whitish, towards termen suffused with fuscous; cilia whitish, 
purplish -tinged except towards tornus, with a fuscous median line. 
Very similar to Cirphis ciliata, Wlk., from which it may be 
readily distinguished (1) by the <? fore legs, (2) by the postmedian 
line on fore wings being single, not double. 
Type in coll., Turner. 
Queensland : Brisbane, in February and May. Three specimens. 
Monopis nivibractella, Wlk. 
y o 15-22 mm. Head snow-white. Palpi dark-fuscous, apex 
of terminal joint white. Antennae dark-fuscous; m S simple. 
Tbnrar fuscous with a large white anterior spot. Abdomen 
“us“ tacous; posterior pair ochreous. Fore wmgs 
elongate slightly dilated posteriorly, costa strongly arched, apex 
rounded’ termen obliquely rounded ; dark-fuscous, markings snow- 
white a large quadrilateral spot on dorsum near base, rather 
b ullV separate from base and costa; an irregularly triangular 
broadly sepa midd i e . smaller spots with very irregular 
outlines on costa before apex, mid-termen, and tornus, the first two 
tending to confluence ; all tending to be broken up by dark-fuscous 
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