BY E. MEYRICK. 159 



streak along costa from base to |, in 9 broader and more suffused; 

 a white streak running from beneath apex of this ahiiost to 

 dorsum beyond middle, whole anterior area of wing yellow- 

 ochreous, becoming deeper and brownish-tinged just before the 

 white streak; in ^J undefined patches of pale whitish-rosj^ suffu- 

 sion before and beyond tornus and on costa before apex, post- 

 tornal patch edged above and costal beneath by marks of yellow, 

 ochreous suffusion, and some yellowish suffusion in disc before 

 these; in 9 tlie whole posterior area is suffused with light crimson, 

 except whitn wedge-shaped marks resting on termen below apex 

 and below middle : cilia in ^ whitish partially tinged with pale 

 rosy, in 9 wholly pale crimson. Hindwings in ^ whitish-grey, 

 in 9 grey; cilia grey-whitish. 



W. AusT.: York, in October; two specimens. 



27. H. rhodopnoana Meyr. 



(Heliocosma rhodoi)noana Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 1881, 694.) 



The ^ (not hitherto described) is similar to the 9, but varies 

 considerably in the development of the crimson colouring, the 

 groundcolour varying from ochi-eous with a faint rosy tinge to 

 rose-pink, but not so deep or bright as in 9- 



Vic: Melbourne(Raynor), Gisborne(Lyell) — Tasm.: George's 

 Bay — S, AusT.: Mount Lofty(Guest) — W. Aust.: Perth, Albany; 

 from November to January. 



28. H. hicongruana Walk. 



{Conchylis incongruana AValk., Cat. xxviii., 363; Eromene 

 apertella ib. xxxv., 1762; Heliocosma incongruana Meyr., Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, 1881, 695.) 



Q. : Duaringa (Barnard), Warwick, Stradbroke I. (Turner) — 

 N.S.W.: Tenterfield (Turner), Blackheath (3500 feet), Sydney— 

 Vic. : Gisborne, Beaconstield(Lyell), Wandin(.Jarvis), Melbourne 

 — Tasm.: Deloraine, George's Bay, Hobart — S. Adst.: Mount 

 Lofty(Guest); from September to April. Larva in a portable 

 case on flowers of Lysinema pungens and Epacris in August (and 

 doubtless later). 



