18 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTBRA, 



whitish median line; a fine blackish line terminating befoi'e hind- 

 margin : cilia bluish-leaden with two darker parallel lines. Hind- 

 wings bright orange-yellow, with a broad blackish hindmarginal 

 band, attenuated above apex; cilia greyish-ochreous with a black 

 median line well defined. 



Cape York, Queensland; two specimens in January. 



PYRALIDINA. 



BOTYDID.a;. 



Metallarcha zygosema, n.sp. 



2- '20 mm. Head and thorax whitish-yellow, abdomen 

 yellowish, antennae, palpi, and legs fuscous, posterior legs ochreous. 

 Forewings elongate-triangular, light brown, with pale yellow 

 markings outlined with darker brown; a large irregular cuneiform 

 patch from base below costa to just before ~ of wing, its lower 

 edge emitting a long slender streak along inner margin to anal 

 angle, posteriorly attenuated; a large irregular lunate mark in 

 middle of wing, connected with basal patch anteriorly by a short 

 bar, very strongly indented on middle portion, upper extremity 

 obtuse, lower acute; a rather broad irregularly edged curved fascia 

 from costa just before apex to inner margin above anal angle but 

 not quite reaching it, anterior edge with a slight projection below 

 middle; a narrow yellowish hindmarginal line : cilia pale yellow, 

 deeper at base. Hind wings pale fuscous, with a pale yellow basal 

 patch sending a projection from below middle towards inner 

 margin; an indistinct elongate black spot in yellow patch; cilia 

 pale yellow, deeper at base. 



Hoyleton, S.A.; one specimen (Coll. E. Guest) in December. 

 The specimen is somewhat abraded, consequently the description 

 may require some latitude for comparison. 



SCOPARIAD^;. 



Scoparia lichenopa, n.sp. 



(J-^. 18, 21 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, antennae, and legs 

 asliy-grey-whitish, posterior legs grey-whitish, abdomen grey, three 



