■904 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



perpendicular to costa, below middle abruptly curved round to 

 beneath discal spot, and again sharply curved to inner margin ; a 

 long transverse-linear dark fuscous discal spot ; a pale cloudy 

 waved subterminal line, preceded and followed by darker shades ; 

 a series of dark fuscous dots on hindmargin between veins : cilia 

 grey-whitish, with a faint greyish line. Hindwings with hind- 

 margin rounded, crenate, inner margin long ; colour and markings 

 as in forewings, but first line absent, second obsolete towards 

 inner margin. Forewings beneath whitish, with two spots before 

 middle, a median spot, and a posterior series, confluent on upper 

 half, blackish ; a triangular space below middle from median spot 

 to posterior series whitish-ochreous ; a crimson transverse mark 

 near before upper half of posterior series ; an ochreous-grey hind- 

 marginal fascia, its anterior edge dentate. Hindwings beneath 

 whitish ; sometimes a crimson transverse-linear discal spot ; an 

 ochreous-grey hindmarginal fascia ; preceded first by a blackish 

 and then by a dull crimson fascia. 



Var. a. Crimson markings of undersurface obsolete. 



Townsville, Duaringa, and Gayndah, Queensland ; Newcastle, 

 Sydney, and Bathurst, New South Wales ; Melbourne, Victoria ; 

 Hobart, Tasmania ; Mount Lofty, South Australia ; Albany, 

 West Australia ; in September, October, March, and June, 

 generally common, at rest on fences and rock-faces. The larva 

 feeds on Eucalyptus. I have never seen this common insect on 

 the wing, and it probably flies only in the dark ; by day it always 

 rests with the wings closely appressed to a flat surface ; the object 

 of the crimson markings I am therefore unable to conjecture. 



13. Hypochroma, Gn, 



Palpi moderate, porrected, second joint roughly scaled, above 

 and beneath terminal joint moderate. Antennae in ^ bipectinated, 

 towards apex filiform, Thorax and femora densely hairy beneath, 

 thorax sometimes crested. Abdomen sometimes crested. Posterior 

 tibife in ^ somewhat dilated, grooved, generally containing pencil 



