BY E. MEYRICK. 429 



"2. Palpi with apical scale-projection on second joint 



above...., " 3. 



Palpi without scale-projection above 4. 



3. Forewings with white subcostal streak 254. aphronesa. 



Forewings without such streak 251. epispora. 



4. Forewings with four dorsal scale-teeth 253. exilis. 



Forewings with two dorsal scale-teeth 252. opsias. 



250. E. eurybias, n.sp. 



^J. 11-15 mm. Head and thorax fuscous, more or less whitish- 

 mixed, sometimes with an ochreous-whitish median stinpe. Palpi 

 dark fuscous, whitish-sprinkled towards base, second joint with short 

 apical scale-projection beneath, terminal joint moderate, ascending. 

 Antennae and abdomen fuscous. Legs dark fuscous. Forewings 

 moderately narrow; costa moderately arched, 7 and 8 separate;- 

 light fuscous, irregularl}'- strigulated with dark fuscous irroration, 

 and partially finely whitish-sprinkled; a black dot beneath costa 

 near base, and one in disc at i; an undefined patch of dark fus- 

 cous suffusion on dox'sum at ^ ; a narrow indistinct dark fuscous 

 inwardly oblique median fascia, marked with a small ochreous 

 spot in disc, and terminating in a large blackish dorsal scaletooth ; 

 a black dot in disc at f , followed by a small ochreous spot ; pos- 

 terior half of costa indistinctly spotted with dark fuscous ; a 

 small ochreous apical spot : cilia light fuscous, round apex 

 irrorated with dark fuscous and whitish, with a dark fuscous spot 

 at apex, and a dark fuscous scaletooth before tornus. Hindwings 

 fuscous; cilia light fuscous. 



Toowoomba (2000 feet), Queensland; Glen Innes (3000 feet) 

 and Sydney, New South Wales ; Gisborne and Healesville, Vic- 

 toria; Hobart, Tasmania; Wirrabara, South Australia; from June 

 to December and in March, eighteen specimens. Larva stout, 

 light yellow-green on back, rather dark bright green on sides, 

 division well-marked; dorsal line rather dark green; spiracular 

 raised, yellowish; head yellow-green, mouth brownish; in a half- 

 grown individual 9 and half 8 flesh-coloured : feeds in a very 

 slight web on twigs of Exocarpus cupressiformis ( Santalaceae). 



