20 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTEE.A, 



and posterior legs ochreous. Forewings moderate, costa gently 

 arched, apex rounded, hindmargin obliquely rounded; dull fleshy 

 ochreous, minutely irrorate'd with black scales which tend to 

 coalesce and obliterate the markings ; an obscurely marked 

 double black dot in disc just before middle ; a similar but 

 more distinct one in a line with first just beyond middle, beneath 

 which the blackish scales coalesce and appear to form a more or 

 less ill-defined blackish suffusion : cilia fuscous mixed with fleshy- 

 red. Hind wings greyish-fuscous; cilia greyish. 



Broken Hill, N.S. Wales ; two specimens (at light) in April. 

 An obscure species. 



COMPSOTROPHA HABRODELTA, n.sp. 



9. 16 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax snow-white, thorax with 

 a narrow dark fuscous anterior band. Legs ochreous-whitish, 

 anterior pair fuscous, tarsi ringed with white; abdomen greyish. 

 Antenuffi fuscous, basal joint white beneath. Forewings moderate, 

 hardly dilated, costa nearly straight, apex rounded, hindmargin 

 obliquely rounded; snow-white; costal edge posteriorly ochreous;^ 

 a narrow black oblique fascia close to base, somewhat dilated on 

 costa; a narrow oblique irregular orange fascia from costa at f to 

 middle of inner margin, edged on both sides with black, narrowed 

 on costa; a similar short fascia from anal angle to middle of 

 posterior edge of previously mentioned fascia, becoming blackish 

 on anal angle and enclosing a spot of ground-colour on inner 

 mai'gin; a narrowed suffused blackish hindmarginal streak, not 

 reaching anal angle : cilia ochreous-orange, strongly mixed with 

 blackish. Hind wings with apex somewhat pointed; light greyish- 

 fuscous; cilia^ pale yellow. 



Gisborne, Victoria; one specimen in February (Coll. G. Lyell, 

 Junr.). Near xaiitlioddta, Meyr. 



CCESYRA HABROPIS, n.Sp. 



^. 20 mm. Head and palpi orange-yellow. Legs, thorax, 

 abdomen, and antennse purplish-fuscous, posterior legs orange- 

 yellow. Forewings moderate, costa gently arched, apex round- 



