292 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN TORTRICINA, 



with tufts of scales on surface, 3 and 4 sometimes stalked, 7 

 separate, to costa. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate or short- 

 stalked, 5 approximated to 4, 6 and 7 closely approximated 

 towards base. 



A genus of some extent, principally characteristic of the 

 Northern Hemisphere and South America. Many of the species 

 are remarkable for their great variability. The generic synonymy 

 is only partially given above. 



286. P. asjjerana Meyr, 



(Phricanthes asperana Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, 1881, 

 636; Pohjlopha elaphris Low., Trans. Roy. Soc. S.Austr. 1908,319.) 



^2. 13-19 mm. Forewings with 7 and 8 connate or closely 

 approximated, but not stalked as stated. 



Q. : Cairns (Dodd), Rockhampton (Barnard), Stradbroke I., 

 Mount Taaibourine(Turner) — N.S.W.: Newcastle, Sydney; from 

 October to January. 



287. P. flexilineana Walk. 



(Sciaphila Jlexilineana Walk., Cat. xxviii., 345; Phricanthes 

 macroura Low., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. 1908, 322.) 



(J^. 18-22 mm. Forewings elongate, much dilated posteriorly; 

 grey mixed with whitish, with scattered black dots and strigulae; 

 costal edge black margined beneath with brown, and marked 

 with pairs of white strigulse; an irregular black longitudinal 

 streak above middle from base to near apex, broken into five or 

 six segments, more or less edged with whitish suffusion above and 

 partially margined with brown beneath; a spot of dark grey 

 suffusion in disc beneath middle; two or three leaden-grey strise 

 posteriorly. Hindwings rather dark fuscous. 



NCt.: St. Aignan Island (Meek) — Queensland (Lower); from 



August to October. Also from the Philippines, India, and 



Ceylon. 



288. P. ejyidesma Low. 



(Polylopha epidesma Low., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. 1901, 71; 

 Oxyyrapha j)orpacias Meyr., Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xviii., 625.) 



