BY E. MEYRICK, B.A., F.E.S. 831 



purplish-tinged, irregularly sprinkled with grey-whitish, dorsal 

 half suftused with grey-whitish except near hindmargin ; a twice 

 dentate dark purple-fuscous mark towards inner margin before 

 middle ; eight indistinct moderate spots outlined with dark 

 purple-fuscous ; one before and above middle, one smaller in 

 middle, remaining six forming a series (lower three adjacent) 

 parallel to hindmargin at f ; a series of obscure irregular dark 

 purple-fuscous marks beyond this. 



Blackheath (3,500 feet), New South "Wales, in November ; one 

 specimen received from Mr. G. H. Raynor, who has others. 



Tel. dactyliota, n. sp. 



(Jj. 25-33 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen fuscous- 

 grey ; palpi whitish beneath ; hairs of abdomen yellowish-tinged. 

 Antennje black, slenderly annulated with white. Forewings with 

 costa almost straight, hindmargin rounded, rather oblique ; rather 

 dark fuscous, in ^ ochreous-shining ; basal third with pale 

 ochreous-yellowish hairs ; spots pale whitish-yellowish, thinly 

 scaled, in ^ very small, in ^ moderate ; first in middle of disc, 

 transverse ; second between veins 3 and 4 at base, roundish, in 

 5 with an additional larger spot adjacent to it beneath ; three 

 adjacent, arranged in a transverse series beneath costa at | ; two 

 others obliquely beneath and beyond them ; in ^ a strong blackish 

 streak from lower angle of first spot to beyond middle of inner 

 margin : cilia grey -whitish, basal half barred with grey. Hind- 

 wings with hindmargin rounded ; ground-colour and cilia as in 

 forewings ; dorsal half clothed with pale ochreous-yellowish hairs ^ 

 a pale ochreous-yellowish cloudy longitudinal-oval discal blotch, 

 beneath and beyond which are several very obscure cloudy pale 

 ochreous-yellowish spots, in ^ tending to form a posterior trans- 

 verse series. Forewings beneath dark fuscous ; an obscure 

 yellowish suffusion beneath costa on basal half ; a triangular 

 blotch suffused with whitish-grey, occupying apical fourth of wing ; 

 spots as above, but in ^ with an additional spot beneath posterior 



