90 XEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



towards anal angle; a thick streak along hindmargin separated 

 from claviform streak by its own width of groundcolour : cilia 

 greyish, with fuscous subbasal and terminal lines. Hindwings 

 dull greyish-ochreous; a fuscous mark in middle of wing; a broad 

 dull fuscous band along anterior half of hindmargin broadest at 

 apex, finely attenuated posteriorly; cilia whitish with a fuscous 

 subbasal line. 



Broken Hill, N.S.W.; four specimens, in November, generally 

 at light. 



Differs from the other described species by the white ground- 

 colour. 



SCOPARIA SCHIZODESMA, n.sp. 



(J^. 16-18 mm. Head and abdomen yellow. Palpi yellowish, 

 base of second and subapical band of terminal joint fuscous. 

 Antennae, legs and thorax fuscous, thorax with a few yellowish, 

 posterior legs yellowish. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa 

 hardly arched, hindmargin oblique ; whitish-ochreous, with 

 fuscous markings; a fine costal line from base to near apex; a 

 basal patch, its outer edge nearly straight, slightly outwardly 

 oblique, from ^ costa to beyond ^ of inner margin; a moderate 

 blotch-like fascia immediately beyond, not quite reaching costa, 

 slightly broader on lower half, separated by a very distinct line 

 of groundcolour, slightly curved below middle ; an irregularly 

 edged outwardly oblique moderate fascia, from costa at f , reaching 

 half across the wing; a fine oblique line from extremity of this to 

 inner margin at |-; a small irregular patch at anal angle; a small 

 triangular spot on costa at ^; an elongate somewhat cuneiform 

 spot from apex along hindmargin to anal angle, finely attenuated 

 beneath; a few ochreous- whitish scales along hindmargin : cilia 

 dark fuscous. Hindwings yellow ; a narrow suflfused fuscous 

 hindmarginal fascia; cilia yellowish, at base fuscous. 



Broken Hill, N.S. W. ; six specimens, from August to January. 



A very pretty species; easily known, as it is the only Scoparia 

 with yellow hindwings. 



