BY E. MEYRICK, B.A. 441 



tarsi broadly banded with dark fuscous. Fore wings triangular, 

 costa very slightly arched, apex somewhat produced, hindmargin 

 sinuate, slightly oblique ; dark reddish-ochreous, somewhat 

 deeper towards base and inner margin ; two small sharply-defined 

 dark ferruginous spots on inner margin, first rather near base, 

 semiovate, second in middle, acute-triangular, erect, reaching 

 nearly half across wing, slenderly margined with pale yellowish ; 

 cilia dark reddish-ochreous, with a blackish apical line. Hind- 

 wings in male grey-whitish, tinged with pale reddish-ochreous, 

 except at base, in female light ochreous-grey ; cilia whitish, with 

 a grey basal line. 



This, the only Australian representative of the genus, is very 

 distinct in markings, and could not be confused with any other 

 known species of the group. 



I have three specimens (two males, one female) taken at 

 Blackheath in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, at an 

 elevation of 3,600 feet, and near Brisbane ; I have also seen a 

 specimen from near Melbourne. These were taken in September 

 and October, and (probably a. second generation) in March, flying 

 in the afternoon sunshine amongst Eucalyptus scrub. 



2. Pyrg. plagiatana, Walk. 



( Conchylis plagiatana, Walk. , Brit. Mus. Cat. 370 ; Conchylis recusana 

 ibid. 371 ; Grapliolitha punana, Feld., Eeis. Nov., pi. cxxxvii, 43 ; 



? G. xylinana, ibid. 44.) 



<$ . 7"-Sh". Head, palpi, and antenna) ochreous-grey- whitish, 

 palpi beneath mixed with dark fuscous. Thorax grey-whitish, 

 irregularly suffused with ochreous ; crest large, dark brownish- 

 ochreous, in front mixed with black. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. 

 Legs whitish, anterior and middle tibire and tarsi suffused with 

 dark smoky -fuscous. Fore- wings triangular, costa hardly arched 

 until just before apex, apex rather strongly produced, hindmargin 

 oblique ; whitish, more or less (sometimes wholly) suffused with 

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