BY E. MEYUICK. 333 



Sect. A. Vein 4 absent in huth win^s. 



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6*. E. .-ii/nethet), n.sp. 



(J^. 6-8 mm. Head whitish-fuscous, crown irrorated with 

 dark fuscous. Palpi whitish, second joint more or less irrorated 

 with blackish, terminal joint with black basal ring and median 

 band. Antennje fuscous. Thorax pale fuscous irroi-ated with 

 dark. Abdomen dark fuscous. Legs dark fuscous, ringed witli 

 whitish. Forewings whitish-fuscous, with a coppery-brown gloss 

 in disc, especially beyond fascia, in ^ wholly irrorated with daik 

 fuscous, in 9 sprinkled thinly on basal area, elsewhere densely 

 irrorated with black; a short blackish sti-eak above fold towards 

 base ; a slightly curved rather oblicjue narrow whitish fascia 

 before middle, in ^ whiter and more distinct, in ^ followed by 

 cloudy blackish spots above and below middle, which in ^ ai-e 

 merged in the general black irroration ; two opposite whitish 

 costal and dorsal spots at |, separated by a black discal dot, in (J 

 indistinct, in 9 white, larger, subquadrate; a white apical dot: 

 cilia fuscous, sprinkled with black and whitish points, with a 

 black median line round apex. Hindwings dark fuscous; cilia 

 fuscous. 



Sydney and Kiama, New South Wales; Melbourne, Victoria; 

 Deloraine, G-eorges Bay, and Hobart, Tasmania ; Albany and 

 Perth, West Australia; from June to January, very common. 

 This species is closely allied to the New Zealand £J. archceonoma; 

 it frequents dry grassy way- sides. 



67. E. catapt'da, n.sp. 



^. 7-8 mm. Head wdiitish sprinkled with grey. Palpi whitish 

 with a Ijlack lateral line, towards tips of second and terminal 

 joints blackish-suffused. Antennye grey spotted with blackish. 

 Thorax grey-whitish sprinkled with black. Abdomen grey. Legs 

 grey-whitish banded with black. Forewings with dorsal hair- 

 pencil beneath; grey-whitish, irrorated with black or dark grey; 

 an ill-defined blackish discal streak from base to near middle; 



