262 RETISION OF AUSTRALIAN TOKTRICINA, 



deep yellow streak, suffused with ferruginous-orange posteriorly 

 from apex to tornus : cilia white. Hindwings whitish; cilia 

 white. 



Q.: Cooktown(Meek); two specimens. 



233. A. arcuatalis Walk. 



(Scopula arcuatalis Walk., Cat. xxxiv., 1474; Cramhus suh- 

 margittellus ib. xxxv., 1760; Eromene transcissella ib. 1762; 

 Arotrophora arcuatalis Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S.Wales, 1881, 

 530.) 



N.S.W. : Sydney, Blackheath (3500 feet)— Vic. : Gisborne, 

 Dimboola(Lyell) — Tasm.: Lauuceston — S. Aust.: Mount Lofty, 

 Mount Gambler, Wirrabara — W. AusT.: Bridgetown(Berthoud), 

 Perth, York, Geraldton; from October to December and February 

 to April. Larva in flower-cones of Banksia serrata, in July and 

 August, and again in January. 



234. A. chionaula, n.sp. 



^2- 15-16 mm. Head white. Palpi 4^, fu.scous, white above 

 and towards base beneath. Antennse in (^shortly dentate. Thorax 

 white, shoulders more oi' less suffused with fuscous. Abdomen 

 ochreous-whitish tinged with gre}'. Forewings elongate, poste. 

 riorly rather dilated, costa anteriorly gnntly arched, posteriorly 

 stmight, apex round-pointed, ternien faintly sinuate, obliriue; 

 whitish densel}' irrorated with dark fuscous, appearing dark 

 grey; sometimes an undefined streak of ferruginous red suffusion 

 beneath costa anteriorly; a suffused irregular white longitudinal 

 median streak from base to end of cell, thence bent up to costa 

 before apex; a more or less marked spot of ochreous-yellowish 

 suffusion beneath this in middle of disc; sometimes some ferru- 

 ginou.s-red scales at apex : cilia whitish, with three fuscous shades 

 tipped with dark fuscous. Hindwings whitish-grey or light 

 grey, becoming darker grey towards apex; cilia whitish, with two 

 indistinct grey shades. 



W. Aust.: Perth; in November, nine specimens. 



