910 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



rounded, crenulate, rather oblique; 6 from point with 9, 11 

 free ; olive-greenish, somewhat mixed with whitish, and with a 

 few fine scattered darker scales ; an incomplete blackish line very 

 near base ; lines well-defined, black, subdentate ; first from J of 

 costa to ^ of inner margin, nearly straight ; a narrow oval trans- 

 verse discal spot outlined with black ; second line from | of costa 

 to middle of inner margin, rectangularly bent outwards 

 in middle, somewhat sinuate inwards near inner margin ; 

 a faint paler dentate sabterminal line, margined anteriorly 

 by an incomplete series of blackish marks ; a hind- 

 marginal series of black crescentic marks : cilia light olive- 

 greenish, barred with blackish, tips whitish. Hindwings with 

 hindmargin rounded, crenate ; 6 and 7 separate ; colour, second 

 and subterminal lines, hindmarginal marks, and cilia as in fore- 

 wings, but bend of second line below middle ; discal spot rather 

 oblique, transverse-lineai-, black. Undersurface of both wings 

 pale whitish-ochreous, with strong blackish lines placed as above ; 

 discal spot of forewings sinuate-oval, of hindwings dot-like, 

 blackish ; a blackish hindmarginal band, including a small whitish 

 spot on middle of hindmargin. 



New South Wales ; three specimens in poor condition (Austr. 

 Mus.). 



89. Hyp. acanthina, n. sp. 



^. 34-38 mm. Head pale greenish, face with two black spots. 

 Palpi blackish, base of second and basal joints whitish-rosy, ter- 

 minal joint moderate. Antennae ochreous-whitish, rosy-tinged, 

 irregularly spotted with dark grey, pectinations 4. Thorax 

 greenish, irregularly mixed with black, posterior extremity with 

 slight whitish-rosy crests. Abdomen pale greenish, with some 

 black scales, with one prominent blackish crest above middle. 

 Legs ochreous-white, anterior pair banded with black, middle pair 

 spotted with black. Forewings moderate, costa almost straight, 

 hindmargin rather obliquely rounded, waved ; 6 from point with 

 9, 11 free ; bluish-green, irregularly strigulated with olive-green. 



