BY E. MEYRICK. 801 



8. Phriss. laticostatus, Walk. 



(Larentia laticostata, Walk. 1196; Scotosia canata, ib. 1357, 

 ButL, Ann. Mag. KH. 1882, 94.) 



(JQ. 16-18 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen grey- 

 whitish irrorated with dark grey ; palpi in $ 1^, in 9 If. 

 Antennae grey-whitish, in $ ciliated (1). Legs dark grey, 

 posterior pair grey-whitish. Forewings triangular, costa iu ^ 

 moderately arched, bent and protuberant at ^, with a compact 

 projecting tuft of hair scales on protuberance, in $ gently arched, 

 hindmargin slightly rounded, oblique ; grey-whitish, with numerous 

 curved waved cloudy dark grey transverse lines, sprinkled with 

 black ; anterior edge of median band marked by a slightly curved 

 blackish line mixed with ochreous-brown, from § of costa to f of 

 inner margin, more conspicuous in ^ j posterior edge of median 

 band more or less marked with black, running from before | of 

 costa to f of inner margin, upper § rather strongly curved outwards 

 and forming two slight angles, with an indentation on submedian 

 fold, on upper half partially preceded by an ochreous-brown 

 suflFusion ; an interrupted black hindmarginal line : cilia grey- 

 whitish, mixed with grey, forming obscure bars. Hindwings 

 with hindmargin rounded ; in ^ grey-whitish, in 9 pale whitish- 

 grey, marked with numerous short grey lines towards inner margin; 

 in (J a large somewhat semioval patch of black irroration extending 

 along costa from ^ to near apex, and reaching nearly half across 

 wing. 



Duaringa, Queensland ; Glen Innes (4500 feet), Sydney, Black- 

 heath, Bathurst, and Cooma, New South Wales ; Melbourne and 

 Warragul, Victoria ; Hobart, Tasmania ; Mount Lofty and Port 

 Lincoln, South Australia ; Carnarvon, Geraldton, and Albany, 

 West Australia ; from August to January, very common generally. 



5. MiCRODES, Gn. 



Face with small cone of scales. Antennae in ^ naked or ciliated. 

 Palpi long, porrected, rough-scaled. Posterior tibise with all spurs 

 present. Forewings with areole simple, 11 running into 12. 

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