BY OSWALD B. LOAVER. 115 



by groundcolour : cilia fuscous, somewhat ochreous at baseo f 

 third fascia. Hindwings dull bronzy-fuscous ; cilia fuscous, 

 becoming ochreous at base, except towards apex. 



Broken Hill, N.S.W.; three specimens in November. 



PLUTELLID^l. 

 HOMADAULA LASIOCHROA, n.Sp. 



(J9. 10-12 mm. Head, thorax, abdomen, antennae and palpi 

 snow-white, palpi with a small black spot at base of second and 

 terminal joints. Legs white, anterior and middle pairs strongly 

 mixed with blackish, posterior pair more whitish, all tarsi black- 

 ish ringed with white. Forewings rather short, somewhat dilated 

 posteriorly, costa gently arched, hindmai'gin obliquely rounded; 

 snow-white, strongly spotted throughout with black, except basal 

 third of costa; a well-marked elongate blackish blotch, just before 

 middle, nearer to inner margin than to costa; a blackish spot in 

 middle of disc at |- from base; costa and inner margin spotted 

 with black, except basal third of costa : cilia whitish,. fuscous- 

 tinged on terminal half, and darker round apex. Hindwings 

 shining greyish -fuscous, becoming whitish towards base, apex 

 fuscous; cilia shining white, costal cilia fuscous. 



Broken Hill, N.S.W.; three specimens in October, and one in 

 January. 



EUPSKLIA IRIDIZOXA, n.Sp. 



^. 10 mm. Head and thorax yellowish, thorax somewhat 

 mixed with fuscous. Antennae, abdomen and palpi fuscous. 

 (Legs broken). Forewings elongate, moderate, slightly dilated, 

 costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, hind margin oblique; 

 yellow; a broad purplish-fuscous hindmarginal patch occuj^ying 

 posterior third of wing, anterior edge hardly straight, sinuate 

 beneath costa, thence very slightly curved outwards to inner 

 margin; near anterior edge of patch are two transverse lines of 

 reddish-purple, not reaching either margin ; a few black scales 

 around anal angle : cilia fuscous. Hindwings and cilia dark 

 fuscous, somewhat bronzy-tinged. 



