BY E. MEYK1CK, B.A. 655 



"Resembling S. zapyrana in the markings of the forewings, but 

 rather darker and more obscure, dorsal streak more slender and 

 with a single dark line, and hind wings wholly dark fuscous. 



One specimen taken in bush near Sydney in August. 



4. Stigm. iridescens, n. sp. 



£ ? ■ 3f "-4". Head and thorax dark fuscous, mottled with 

 ochreous-white. Palpi whitish, beneath mixed with dark fuscous. 

 Autennee dark fuscous. Abdomen dark greyish-fuscous, beneath 

 in male snow-white, in female whitish-grey. Legs whitish, tarsi 

 banded with dark fuscous. Forewings rather elongate, in female 

 slightly broader, costa hardly arched, hindmargin obliquely 

 rounded ; dark greyish-fuscous, very finely transversely strigu- 

 lated with whitish ; costa with short oblique broader whitish 

 striguhe throughout ; about eight ill-defined grey-whitish trans- 

 verse lines from inner margin between base and two-thirds, 

 reaching about half across wing, in female more indistinct ; a 

 faint bluish-metallic line from costa beyond middle to anal angle, 

 angulated outwards in middle, distinct and silvery-metallic on 

 lower half ; between lower half of this line and hindmargin the 

 ground colour is suffused with whitish (less distinctly in female) , 

 with a row of about five short linear black marks : cilia grey, 

 whitish towards base, with a black basal and another black 

 central line. Hindwings in male fuscous-grey, hindmargin 

 narrowly dark fuscous, in female wholly dark fuscous, towards 

 apex blackish ; cilia grey-whitish, with a dark fuscous basal line. 



Distinguished by the absence of a dorsal blotch, and by the 

 grey-whitish transverse lines and suffusion at anal angle of 

 forewings ; the very fine whitish strigulation causes the ground- 

 colour to appear lighter than in the allied species. 



Four specimens taken at Parramatta and Murrurundi, New 

 South Wales, in October. 



