52 NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



gate, moderate, hardly dilated, costa gently arched, apex acute, 

 hardly produced, hindmargin oblique; fleshy-ochreous, mixed with 

 fuscous and whitish; a short whitish streak at base of inner 

 uiai'gin; a very oblique blackish streak from costa near base to ^ 

 of disc just below middle, becoming blotch-like towards and on 

 costa ; ground colour above this streak whitish ; a very broad 

 suffused whitish fascia, mixed with minute black strigulae, except 

 on costal portion, anterior edge from J of costa to about middle 

 of inner margin, with two sharp angulations outwards, one in 

 middle, large, and one below; posterior edge veiy suffused from 

 beyond middle of costa to before anal angle, dentate on the upper, 

 caused by a black mark which is continued to near anal angle, 

 thence curved upwards to near middle of hindmargin, forming 

 roughly the letter S, edged posteriorly by its own width of white, 

 except on lower fourth which is filled with pale pinkish gradually 

 shading into ground colour : cilia fleshy-ochreous, mixed with 

 whitish. Hindwings greyish-fuscous, costal edge narrowdy white 

 throughout, more pronounced beneath; cilia pinkish-grey. 



Kangaroo Island, S.A.; one specimen beaten from Leptosper- 

 Tnum in November. 



EOCHROIS MESODESMA, n.sp. 



(J. 20 mm. Head and palpi whitish, second joint somewhat 

 infuscated internally. Legs whitish, somewhat infuscated. An- 

 tennae fuscous, ciliations 2, becoming shorter towards apex. 

 Thorax fuscous-whitish, lighter anteriorly. Abdomen fuscous. 

 Forewings elongate, moderate, costa gently arched, apex some- 

 what acute, hindmargin sinuate, somewhat oblique; dull ochreous- 

 fuscous, becoming lighter on basal half; inner mai'gin slenderly 

 whitish from base to ^, a rather narrow well-defined transverse 

 whitish oblique fascia from costa just before middle to middle of 

 inner margin, very shortly indented immediately below costa and 

 becoming slightly dilated on inner margin, anteriorly edged 

 throughout with dark fuscous; a fuscous elongate spot at end of 

 cell; a large grey- whitish rounded patch occupying whole of apical 

 portion of wing, more or less centred with dark fuscous scales : 



