BY E. MEYRICK, B.A., F.E.S. 851 



white, sprinkled with black, segments with more or less distinct 

 biownish median rings, in ^ laterally tufted beyond middle, and 

 with a circular lateral orifice at base. Legs grey, posterior pair 

 whitish, posterior tibiae in ^ moderate, dilated, clothed with dense 

 rough hairs above, and with an expansible pencil of hairs in groove 

 beneath, in ^ with all spurs present, posterior tarsi in (J 5, 

 Forewings with costa posteriorly moderately arched, hindmargin 

 somewhat bowed, rather oblique ; white, irrorated with pale 

 whitish-fuscous, and sprinkled with black ; generally a short 

 oblique linear black mark in disc before middle, representing first 

 line ; a black discal dot, much befoi'e median line ; median 

 absorbed in a straight fuscous sti"eak from apex of wing to before 

 middle of inner margin, mixed with black towards apex ; second 

 line slender, black, dentate, more or less interrupted between 

 dentations, from | of costa to § of inner margin, curved outwards, 

 above middle sharply indented inwards ; subterminal cloudy, 

 light fuscous, near and parallel to second ; submarginal light 

 fuscous, waved ; an interrupted light fuscous hindmarginal line, 

 marked with a series of black dots : cilia white, on basal half 

 sprinkled with black, and obscurely barred with pale whitish-grey. 

 Hindwings with hindmargin rounded, waved ; veins 6 and 7 from 

 a point ; white, irrorated with pale whitish-fuscous and sprinkled 

 with black ; median straight, light fuscous, followed by a black 

 discal dot ; second line slender, blackish, nearly straight, twice 

 somewhat sinuate on upper half ; subterminal thick, cloudy, light 

 fuscous, near and parallel to second ; submarginal and hind- 

 marginal lines, and cilia as in forewings. 



Duaringa and Toowoomba (2000 feet), Queensland ; Sydney, 

 New South Wales ; in December, April, and June, not uncommon. 



17. Ac. lydia, Butl. 



{Idaea lydia, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 188G, 435 ; 



I Jessica, ib. 436.) 

 (J. 16-18 mm. Head gi^eyish-ochreous. Palpi ochreous- whitish, 



towards apex greyish-ochreous. Antennee whitish, dentate, 



