( 400 ) 



Neuration : forewings, cell quite half as long as vviug; discocellular angulated, 

 the lower ai'm oblique; first median at four-fifths, second just before end of cell; 

 lower radial slightly above centre of discocellulars, upper from top end of cell ; last 

 four subcostals stalked, first anastomosing with costal, second with first. Hindwings 

 with costal abruptly curved upwards at middle of cell ; the first subcostal also similarly 

 carved before the end of cell. 



Type: StenochaHa quudriplaiju Wlk. (Xyctcinera). 



.SiBfAMiLY SKLIDOSE.MIXAE. 



165. Petelia(?j inconspicua sp. nov. 



Fm'eivings : dull reddisii brown, much sprinkled and suffused with fuscous, the 

 base, a broad diffuse fascia in middle, and the marginal area being darker and leaving 

 two obscurely paler spaces between them; the inner edge of the marginal area is 

 fairly distinct and obtusely bent at middle ; submarginal line indistinctly indicated 

 liv sliglit patches of whitish scales between the veins; fringe conoolorous, with a row 

 ff minute dark dots at the ends of the veins. 



Hindwiwis : the same. 



Underside pale oehreous grey, dusted with fuscous ; a narrow central and broad 

 dark marginal fascia. Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish grey-brown; fillet and 

 antennae whitish. 



Expanse of wings : 48 mm. 



Two ? ? from Geraldton. ('aims, Queensland (A. S. Meek). 



In the forewings vein 11 anastomoses strongly with 12, and then less strongly 

 with the .stalk of 8, 9, 10. 



SriiFAMiLY I5IST0XINAE. 



16(). Blepharoctenucha albescens sp. nov. 



Fm'eivings : white, irrorated with fuscous grey ; tlie lines oblicjue, blackisli ; tir,-l 

 from costa at one-third, bent on subcostal, then obliquely curved to inner margin 

 close to base, preceded by a similarly curved fascia of grey scales; a diffuse central 

 shade, broad above, narrower and darker towards inner margin; the discocellular 

 mark an irregular white lunule edged with dark ; outer line from costa at three- 

 fourths, wavy and vertical to the middle, then sinuous and oblique to inner margin 

 beyond the middle, followed by a grey-scaled fascia ; submarginal line pale, obscure, 

 with a fascia of grey scales on each side, which is distinct only towards costa ; a row 

 of black marginal dashes between the veins ; fringe white. 



IlhidiuiniiH : the same, with the autemedian line straight and thick. 



Underside white ; the cell-spots and marginal .spots of both wings black; ape.K 

 of forewings with a subapical costal blackish blotch curved to the hindmargin. Face 

 and paliii whitish, face sometimes with dark streaks; thorax and abdomen white, 

 irrorated with fuscous; shoulders and patagia with a dark bar towards apex; segments 

 of abdomen dark. 



Expanse of wings : J, 52 mm ; ? , (iS mm. 



One i, two ? ?, from South .lava, I8'J1, 1.500 feet (Fruhstorfer). 



