008 REVISION OP AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



brownish-tinged, densely irrorated with grey and black ; a black 

 almost basal transverse line ; a straight black line from \ of costa 

 to \ of inner margin, followed by a pale brownish-grey band ; a 

 short black transverse linear discal spot ; second line black, some- 

 what waved irregularly, from f of costa to 5 of inner margin, 

 followed by a pale line, beyond which the posterior aiea is wholly 

 suffused with pale brownish, except a pale subdentate subterminal 

 line ; a black hindmarginal line : cilia whitish, obscurely spotted 

 with grey. Hindwings with hindmargin unevenly crenate, inner 

 margin long ; veins 6 and 7 separate ; colour and markings as in 

 forewings, but subbasal and first lines absent, Undersurface of 

 both wings white sprinkled with grey, with a broad cloudy 

 blackish posterior fascia, constricted in middle, tinged with red on 

 margins, on forewings only reaching from near costa to below 

 middle. 



Newcastle, New South Wales ; Melbourne, Victoria ; Albany, 

 West Austi'alia ; three specimens. In one specimen vein 6 of the 

 fox'ewings was furcate at base, so as to form a small auxiliary 

 cell, a curious individual deformity. 



87. Hyp. metarhodata, Walk. 



(Scotosia metarhodata, Walk. 1724.) 



(J9. 27 mm. Head whitish, slightly gi-eenish-tinged, with a 

 few black scales, and two black dots on face. Palpi greenish- 

 whitish with a blackish band, terminal joint short. Antennse 

 whitish, reddish-tinged, spotted with grey. Thorax greenish- 

 whitish, with a blackish transverse median bar, shoulders and pos- 

 terior extremity spotted with black. Abdomen ochreous-whitish, 

 rosy-tinged, mixed with blackish on back, with two strong grey 

 crests towards middle. Legs whitish, anterior and middle pair 

 banded with blackish. Forewings rather elongate-triangular, 

 costa hardly arched, hindmargin waved, rather obliquely rounded ; 

 6 from point with 9,11 free ; olive-green, with numerous short 

 blackish transverse strigulse ; a suffused dentate blackish line 



