BY E. MEYRICK, B.A., F.E.S. 925 



This genus, which has been variously placed, is certainly 

 referable here, and is nearest allied to Zia. The name is usually 

 written Sarrothrii^a, which is a meaningless barbarism ; but since 

 Guenee always formed his names etymologically, I confidently 

 conjecture Sarotricha to be the right reading, (in allusion to the 

 peculiar tufts of the anterior legs, characteristic of the genus,) and 

 have restored it accordingly ; as a critical emendation I consider it 

 almost certain. 



Sar. exophila, n. sp. 



(J^. 14-18 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and legs white irrorated 

 with dark fuscous. Antenuse and abdomen grey. Forewings 

 elongate, suboblong, posteriorly rather dilated, costa strongly 

 arched near base, slightly sinuate in middle, apex obtuse, hind- 

 margin rounded, somewhat oblique ; white, irrorated with dark 

 grey, somewhat mixed with greenish, sometimes more or less 

 suffused with grey ; from two to four subdentate dark fuscous 

 transverse lines more or less marked in basal area, sometimes 

 partially suffused together ; two parallel blackish lines from 

 costa before middle to middle of inner margin, almost straight, 

 somewhat indented beneath costa, first less marked; two minute 

 black dots placed somewhat obliquely transversely in disc beyond 

 middle ; two parallel waved blackish-grey lines from ^ of costa to 

 f of inner margin, rather curved outwards, sinuate inwards 

 towards inner margin, second forming a triangular dark fuscous 

 spot on costa ; a shortly dentate blackish subterminal line, 

 indented beneath costa and in middle ; an interrupted black hind- 

 marginal line, tending to form dots : cilia whitish, irrorated with 

 dark grey. Hindwings fuscous-grey, much paler and whitish- 

 tinged towards base ; cilia white, basal half fuscous. 



Duaringa, Queensland ; four specimens received from Mr. Gr. 

 Barnard, Nearly allied to the European aS'. undulana, but much 

 smaller, distinguished by the white groundcolour, the two small 

 discal dots, and the postmedian line of forewings not angulated 

 inwards below middle. 

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