BY E. MEYKICK. 795 



light reddish-ochreous, with numerous very obscure suffused pale 

 whitish-ochreous curved transverse lines ; one about ^, and three 

 beyond middle, are partially marked with black ; a tuft of erect 

 blackish scales in middle of disc ; a small triangular blackish mark 

 on costa at | ; a nearly straight cloudy whitish subterminal line, 

 preceded on costa by a blackish suffusion, and suffusedly margined 

 with blackish towards lower extremity, where it becomes more 

 conspicuous ; an interrupted blackish hindmarginal line : cilia 

 ochreous-whitish, somewhat sprinkled with blackish. Hindwings 

 with hindmargin nearly straight, crenulate ; fuscous-whitish, 

 towards inner margin whiter and marked with incomplete cloudy 

 reddish-ochreous lines sprinkled with blackish, reaching ^ across 

 wing ; hindmaroinal line and cilia as in forewings. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; one specimen on a lamp in August. 



3. Pasiphila, Meyr. 



Face with cone of scales. Antennse in ^ ciliated or naked. 

 Palpi moderate or rather long, porrected, rough-scaled. Abdomen 

 slightly crested. Posterior tibise with all spurs present. Forewings 

 with areole simple, 11 running into 12. Hindwings with veins 

 6 and 7 stalked. 



Characteristic of New Zealand, where about ten species occur, 

 but the following species is only yet known from Australia. 



3. Pas. filata, Gn. 



(Eiqnthecia filata, Gn. X, 353 ; Phibalapteryx ruhroferrata, 

 Walk. 1341.) 



(J9. 19-21 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax mixed with fuscous- 

 reddish, whitish-ochreous, and dark fuscous ; palpi in $ 2, in 9 3. 

 Antennpe in $ shortly ciliated (•^). Forewings triangular, hind- 

 margin bowed ; ochreous-whitish, densely irrorated with fuscous- 

 reddish, appearing to form numerous curved waved transverse 

 lines, partially marked with blackish on veins ; median band 

 sometimes suffused with fuscous, or more rarely on lower half 

 with white ; its anterior edge running from % of costa to | of inner 



