BY E. MEYRICK. 270 



■two dark grey lines, basal third sometimes barred with darker. 

 Hitidwings clear whitish, with a few scattered grey spots; a 

 rather narrow suffused grey terminal fascia, broader at apex; 

 cilia whitish, with dark grey subbasal line and pale grey post- 

 median shade. 



Tasm.: Mount Wellington, 3100 feet; in November and De- 

 cember, nine specimens. Nearly allied to C ricpicolana, but 

 immediately distinguished b}' the quite different hindwings. 



257. C. rupicolana Meyr. 



{Dijiterina rupicolana Meyr., Proc. Linn. Sec. N. S. Wales, 

 1881, 526; D. rejluana ib. 525.) 



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

 ■OisV)orne(Lyell), Wandin(Jarvis), Melbourne — S. AusT.: Mount 

 Lofty(Guest); from August to October. The form rejluana is 

 merely a dark variety. 



258. C. rigida, n.sp. 



^. 17 mm. Head dark brown with a whitish central stripe. 

 Polpi dark fuscous, apex of second joint brown-whitish. An- 

 tennal ciliations 1. Thorax blackish marked with white, patagia 

 wliite with a black subbasal bar and becoming dark brown at 

 tips. Abdomen pale ochreous-yellowish. Forewings elongate, 

 posteriorly dilated, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 hardly rounded, rather oblique; ochreous-white; markings dark 

 leaden-grey edged with strong black striiB of raised scales; basal 

 patch marked with three black striai, with some whitish suffusion 

 between first two, outer edge irregular, excised below middle, 

 followed by two or three blackish strigulse towards dorsum; a 

 black dot on costa before central fascia, and two beyond it; 

 central fascia narrow, almost straight, direct, followed by a trans- 

 verse-linear black mark in disc; a narrow fascia from |^ of costa 

 to tornus; some black dots round apex and termen irregularly 

 connected with this and each other : cilia whitish-ochreous, with 

 two dark grey partially interrupted shades. Hindwings grey, 



