PHRAGMATIPHILA. By W. Warren. 
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L. neuritis Hmps. Forewing ochreous with thick black irroration; the veins pale; diffuse fuscous neuritis. 
streaks along subcostal and median veins and finer dark streaks along the pale veins, leaving a pale streak 
along cell-fold from middle of cell to termen; a row of terminal black dots; hindwing ochreous white tinged 
with fuscous, especially along termen; a row of terminal black dots from vein 7 to 2; fringe ochreous white. 
Sydney, New South Wales. Described from a single <$. 
L. suffusa Lucas. Forewing ochreous fuscous; costal edge ochreous; veins finely light ochreous, con- suffusa. 
cisely bordered with reddish ochreous, diffused towards the intervals; hindwing ochreous fuscous, paler to¬ 
wards inner margin; veins finely light ochreous, bordered with diffused smoky fuscous; abdomen ochreous, 
with a darker blotch on dorsum of basal segment and narrower blotches laterally on hind segments. Under¬ 
side of forewing dark smoky fuscous except the margins and a narrow median band ochreous. Melbourne, 
Australia. Described from a single example as a Galamia ; referred here provisionally to Lophocalama, in the 
absence of critical examination. 
68. Genus: Pliragmalipliila Hmps. 
Tongue aborted, minute; frons with a transverse corneous plate at middle, square in front and con¬ 
cealed by hair; palpi porrect, short, fringed below with long hair, the third segment short and smooth; 
head and thorax clothed with hair; the prothorax, metathorax, and basal segment of dorsum with low crests; 
tibiae fringed with long hair; abdomen with lateral fringes of hair; forewing elongate, the apex blunt, the ter¬ 
men evenly curved; neuration normal. Type P. nexa Hbn. 
Sect I. Antennae of $ bipectin ate, with long branches to apex; veins 
6, 7 of hindwing stalked. 
P. truncata Walk. (= exitiosa Oliff). Forewing ochreous, dusted and suffused with reddish brown; truncata. 
inner line marked by faint dark dots on the veins; outer by a double oblique series of dark dots from 
vein 6 to inner margin; a series of terminal black points; hindwing ochreous white, slightly tinged with brown; 
the $ is more ochreous without the red tinge; in the ab. fuscata ab. nov. (= ab. 1. Hmps.) the fore wings, fuscata. 
head, and thorax are all wholly suffused with fuscous; in ab. leonina Walk., from Tasmania, only the median leonina. 
vein and vein 4 are streaked with fuscous. Recorded from N. S. Wales and S. Australia. The Tasmanian form 
may be specifically distinct. Larva pinkish, dorsally purplish; lateral lines very indistinct; venter yellowish 
white; head redbrown; thoracic plate yellow brown; each segment with 4 dorsal and 2 lateral tubercles, and 
similar subventral tubercles; feeding in the stems of reeds. 
Sect. II. Antennae of $ serrate, with short sessile fascicles of cilia. 
P. fumea Hmps. (20 h). Forewing blackish fuscous glossed with grey; the veins dusted with white fumea. 
scales; a slight black streak from base below cell; orbicular and reniform stigmata small, with fuscous centres 
dusted with white, and white annuli incompletely defined by black; the former round, the latter slightly angled 
inwards on median vein; a black streak between them in cell and beyond the reniform to outer line, which is 
obscurely marked, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, and oblique below vein 4; some short subterminal 
black streaks below veins 5 and 4; a terminal series of small black lunules with white points on the veins 
between them; hindwing ochreous white tinged with purplish fuscous; a fine dark terminal line; fringe och¬ 
reous at base and white at tips. Described from a single $ from Sikkim, N. India. 
Sect. III. Antennae of $ ciliated. 
P. leucaneura Hmps. (20 g). Forewing greyish ochreous strongly suffused and irrorated with dark leucaneura. 
brown; the veins of costal area pale; inner line blackish, curved, but indistinct; orbicular and reniform stigmata 
very small, ochreous edged with black except above, and with black before and between them; the orbicular 
somewhat triangular, the reniform with a black striga in centre; median shade blackish, clearest below middle; 
outer line shown by an oblique series of slight black vein dots from vein 6 to inner margin; an oblique och¬ 
reous streak from apex; an oblique ochreous line from termen just below apex to inner margin, fine towards 
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