BY E. MEYRICK, B.A. 511 



Larva stout, cylindrical, with scattered whitish hairs ; rather 

 dull green, spots slightly paler, dorsal vessel indigo-green ; head 

 reddish-ochreous, more reddish on crown, face greenish ; second 

 segment greenish-ochreous, with a darker green square patch 

 above on posterior margin. It feeds amongst spun-together 

 shoots, or along twigs amongst the leaves, on Monotoca scoparia 

 (a low heath-like shrub belonging to the Epacridea), usually 

 three or four together in a good deal of dense web : and pupates 

 in a rough silken cocoon in the same situation. These larvae 

 were found in October, and the imagos emerged in November. 



Very common amongst its food-plant at Blackheath on the 

 Blue Mountains, 3,600 feet above the sea ; and occurs also more 

 sparingly (and of a smaller size) in places near Sydney ; it is on 

 the wing in November, January, and March. 



2. Tort, subfurcatana, Walk. 

 fConchylis subfurcatana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat. 368). 

 $ ? . 7i"-8V'. Head, palpi, and thorax dark reddish-ochreous 

 brown. Antennae dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous-grey, on 

 sides ochreous. Legs pale yellowish, anterior and middle pair 

 suffused above with dark fuscous, ^brewings moderately broad, 

 costa moderately arched towards base, hindmargin slightly oblique; 

 rounded ; white, sometimes suffused with pale ashy-grey, with 

 sharply-defined markings, varying from reddish-ochreous-brown 

 to dark fuscous ; basal patch somewhat paler at base, its outer 

 edge nearly straight, extending from one-fourth of costa to one- 

 third of inner margin ; central fascia rather oblique, from before 

 middle of costa to middle of inner margin, moderately broad, 

 slightly curved, sometimes slightly dilated towards inner margin ; 

 a second fascia, nearly equally broad, from costa at two-thirds to 

 anal angle, rather sinuate, generally enclosing a white dot on 

 costa, and connected with central fascia on inner margin by a 

 slender streak ; a rather broad streak from apex along upper 

 two-thirds of hindmargin, rapidly attenuated beneath : cilia 



