466 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



produced, hindmargin sharply excavated beneath apex, strongly- 

 bowed outwards below middle ; whitish-grey, with a few irregular 

 blackish-fuscous transverse strigulre, basal portion in male suffused 

 with dark fuscous ; costa and inner margin finely strigulated with 

 dark fuscous ; outer edge of basal patch indicated by an irregular 

 blackish line from one-fifth of costa to before one-third of inner 

 margin ; a small grey-fuscous spot on costa at one-third ; a largo 

 subquadrate dark grey-fuscous blotch on posterior half of inner 

 margin, anteriorly and posteriorly somewhat rounded and blackish 

 margined, above straight but less distinct ; a dark grey-fuscous 

 black-margined triangular blotch on costa at two-thirds, its apex 

 slenderly connected with posterior angle of blotch ; a small dark 

 fuscous costal spot before apex ; a dark grey-fuscous black- 

 margined evenly broad streak along hindmargin from apex nearly 

 to anal angle ; cilia whitish-grey. Hind wings light fuscous-grey, 

 spotted with darker, and becoming darker posteriorly ; cilia 

 whitish-grey, dark grey round apex, and with a dark grey basal 

 line. 



Probably the species may be subject to variation analogous to 

 that of A. similana, for which allowance should be made. The 

 male is larger and broader-winged than A. similana, without the 

 ochreous-brown ground-colour of that species, and also strongly 

 suffused with dark fuscous towards base ; the female is also rather 

 larger than the corresponding sex in A, similana, with the 

 peculiarities of form all exaggerated, and especially the hind- 

 margin deeply excavated beneath the apex, whilst the hind- 

 wings are entirely without any yellow colouring. 



Mr. G. H. Eaynor took three specimens (one male and two 

 females) in a garden at Waratah on the Hunter River, New 

 South "Wales, in September. 



2. Anis. similana, Walk. 



floras similana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat. 300 ; Pandemis mcdiana, 



ibid. 311). 



