BY OSWALD B. LOWER. 15 



three darker rosy-carmine darker transverse fasci?e; 1st from base 

 to i, outer edge nearly straight, somewhat waved, indicating basal 

 patch; 2nd broad from about middle of costa to middle of inner 

 margin, indicating median shade; 3rd narrow, waved from costa 

 at f to inner margin near anal angle; an obscure rosy-carmine dot 

 above middle, midway between last two fascise; subterminal and 

 submarginal lines darker carmine, thick and indistinct : cilia pale 

 ochreous, suffusedly mixed with rosy-carmine. Hindwings pale 

 whitish-ochreous; two obscure fuscous transverse median bands, 

 hardly perceptible in some specimens; cilia pale whitish-ochreous. 

 Torrens Island and Semaphore, South Australia; beaten from 

 Salicornia arhuscula in October. 



A distinct and beautiful species taken by Mr. Harold Lower. 

 The lustre of the forewings of this species when fresh is magnifi- 

 cent, but after death this fades to a dull rosy-carmine. 



MONOCTENIAI).ffi. 



Mnesampela petrochroa, n.sp. 



5. 33 mm. Head, thorax, and antennae greyish-ochreous, 

 abdomen white with minute black scattered scales ; five or six 

 pairs of black dots placed laterally on underside at juncture of 

 each segment. Legs whitish, anterior tibiye and tarsi ringed with 

 blackish, palpi blackish. Forewings triangular, apex prominent, 

 hindmargin slightly bowed ; light greyish-ochreous, with fine 

 indistinct irregular fuscous strigulse; costa very finely whitish 

 strigulated with fuscous; an indistinct blackish suffusion on costa 

 at base; a curved series of five small black dots, one on costa at 

 \, two close together immediately below, one in middle, and one 

 above inner margin ; an almost straight series of similar dots 

 edged posteriorly with white and placed on a pale ferruginous 

 shade, from before apex to about \ of inner margin : cilia silvery- 

 white, a pale ferruginous indistinct line along inner margin and 

 more or less continued along basal half of cilia to near apex. 

 Hindwings gre3'ish-fuscous, somewhat purplish-tinged, becoming 

 greyish-ochreous towards inner margin, hairs on inner margin 



