248 Tranaa tions. — Zoology. 



West Plains. Fairly common during November and De- 

 cember at flowers of the white rata (M. scandens). 



Xanthorrhoe occulta, n. sp. Plate XXXII. , fig. 5. 



$ , 28 mm. Head and thorax dull yellowish - brown. 

 Legs and abdomen paler. Antennas shortly bipectinated. 

 Fore wings dull yellowish - brown, sometimes with reddish 

 tinge, more pronounced near base ; a white dot posteriorly 

 black-margined on vein 1 at ^ ; a similar dot near origin of 

 vein 2 ; a chain of similar dots, black-margined anteriorly, 

 from f costa to f dorsum. Cilia reddish-brown. Hind wings 

 very pale whitish-yellow. Cilia same colour. 



My three specimens are all males. I have a moth which 

 is probably the female of this species ; it differs in having 

 the fore wings bright ochreous-brown. The cilia of the hind 

 wings are also ochreous-brown. 



This species differs from X. cegrota, which it resembles 

 most, in the shorter pectinations of the antennae and the 

 presence of the subterminal chain of white spots. 



West Plains, October and November, at light. 



Xanthorrhoe oraria, n. sp. Plate XXXII., fig. 6. 



$, 20-25 mm. Whole insect pale dull-yellow. In some 

 examples indications of a dark line across fore wings at \, and 

 a more pronounced irregular thin line at f , beyond which the 

 colour is paler, but very few specimens have even these 

 markings. All specimens have, however, a dark spot near 

 costa, before \. 



An obscure and dull-looking species differing from other 

 species of the genus in the almost total absence of markings. 

 I found the male plentiful during November at New River 

 amongst the tussock-grass on the sandhills, but have not yet 

 met with the female. 



Selidosema fascialata, n. sp. Plate XXXII. , fig. 7. 



$, $,35-38 mm. Head and thorax dull-brownish. Ab- 

 domen pale -yellow. Fore wings rich dark -brown irrorated 

 with darker ; a yellowish- white convex band at \, anteriorly 

 somewhat suffused ; space from \ to § occupied by a broad 

 blackish - brown band, posteriorly deeply indented above 

 middle, and broadly margined with an irregular yellowish- 

 white suffusion ; a subterminal serrate white line, interrupted 

 in middle, broadly and irregularly margined with blackish- 

 brown ; a subapical triangular patch margined below with 

 blackisb-brown ; a row of minute black spots on termen. 

 Hind wings yellow, with a few scattered dark scales, and 

 sometimes a row of black dots on termen. 





