808 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA 



8. Heterochasta, n.g. 



Face with slightly projecting scales. Antennae in ^ shortly 

 ciliated. Palpi rather short, porrected, loosely scaled. Posterior 

 tibise with all spurs present. Forewings in ^ with tuft of hairs 

 from inner margin near base ; areole double. Hindwings in ^ 

 with vein 4 absent (coincident with 3), 6 and 7 stalked. 



Nearly allied to the following genus. 



16. ffet. conglohata, Walk. 



(Cidaria conglohata, Walk, 1411.) 



(J. 27 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous, mixed with pale 

 greyish-ochreous and dark fuscous; palpi 1^, terminal joint very 

 short. Antennae fuscous, ciliations \. Forewings triangular, 

 hindmargin bowed, oblique; ochreous-grey- whitish, sprinkled with 

 grey, with numerous cloudy waved dark fuscous transverse lines ; 

 a basal patch suliused with light fuscous, its edge running from 

 5 of costa to \ of inner margin, convex ; a ferruginous line near 

 beyond this ; median band fuscous, enclosing a clear space on 

 upper half, anterior edge running from | of costa to middle 

 of inner margin, partially marked with blackish, almost straight, 

 posterior edge running from before | of costa to § of inner 

 margin, upper half somewhat curved outwards, with a rather 

 strong sinuation above middle, partially marked with blackish, 

 more strongly on sinuation ; a dark grey discal dot in clear 

 median space ; a double ferruginous line before pale subterminal 

 line ; an oblique cloudy blackish streak from apex, interrupted 

 by subterminal line ; a hindmarginal series of small subquadrate 

 blackish spots arranged in pairs : cilia fuscous-whitish, base and 

 obscure bars ochreous-brownish. Hindwings with hindmargin 

 rounded, waved ; whitish-fuscous, hindmargin darker ; a cloudy 

 dark fuscous hindmarginal line, forming darker spots on each side 

 of veins ; cilia whitish, base light fuscous. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; one specimen bred in October, 

 but the record of the larva was lost. The British Museum has 

 one specimen. 



