852 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



ciliations 3. Thorax and abdomen light fuscous, mixed with pale 

 greyish ochreous. Legs grey, posterior pair whitish, posterior 

 tibiae rather short, dilated, rough-scaled above, without spurs, tarsi 

 about f. Forewings with costa gently arched, hindmargin 

 slightly rounded, oblique ; fuscous, suffusedly sprinkled with light 

 greyish ochi"eous ; lines scarcely darker, placed as in ^ but hardly 

 traceable : cilia fuscous, sprinkled with pale greyish -ochreous, tips 

 paler. Hindwings with hindmargin rounded, waved ; veins 6 and 

 7 stalked ; colour and mai-kings as in forewings. 



9- 17-19 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and 

 legs pale whitish-ochreous, posterior tibise with all spurs present. 

 Forewings formed as in ^ ; pale whitish-ochreous, sprinkled with 

 black, towards base slightly bi'ownish-tinged ; first line greyish- 

 ochreous, very indistinct ; median from beyond middle of costa to 

 middle of inner margin, very faint, straight, marked with a very 

 small black discal dot ; second from | of costa to before f of inner 

 margin, nearly straight, rather thick, greyish-ochreous, posterior 

 edge most defined ; subtei'minal cloudy, indistinct, pale gi-eyish- 

 ochreous ; submarginal similar, more slender ; a hindmarginal row 

 of blackish dots, tending to form an interrupted line : cilia pale 

 whitish-ochreous, basal half more or less distinctly spotted with 

 fuscous, Hindwings formed as in (J ; colour and markings as in 

 forewings, but subterminal and submarginal better marked. 



Duaringa, Queensland ; Sydney, New South Wales ; Mount 

 Lofty, South Australia ; Gei-aldton and Carnarvon, West Aus- 

 tralia ; in October, November, and March, locally rather common. 

 The difference between the two sexes in appearance is remarkable. 



18. Ac. rubraria, Dbld. 



[Ptychopoda rubraria, Dbld. DiefF. N. Zeal. II, 286 ; Acidalia 

 figlinaria, Gn. IX, 454, pi. xii, 8 ; A. repletaria, Walk. 778 ; 

 A. attributa, ib. 779 ; Fklonia acidaliaria, ib. 1037 ; Acidalia 

 rubraria, Meyr. Trans. IST. Z, Inst. 1883, 57). 



(^9- 17-22 mm. Head light reddish-ochreous. Palpi moderate, 

 whitish-ochreous, reddish-tinged, somewhat sprinkled ^vith black. 



