BY E. MEYRICK. 809 



9. POLYCLYSTA, Gn. 



Face with small cone of scales. Antennas iia J" shortly ciHated. 

 Palpi moderate, porrected, loosely scaled. Posterior tibiae with 

 all spurs present. Forewings with areole double. Hindwings in 

 ^ with vein 6 absent (coincident with 7), in 2 6 and 7 stalked. 



Only the one species is known. 



17. Pol. hypogrammata, Gn. 



( Polyclijsta hypogrammata, Gn. X, 376, pi. xxil, 4.) 



(J^. 31-34 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dull olive-greenish 

 mixed with fuscous and whitish-ochreous ; palpi 2, terminal joint 

 moderately long. Forewings somewhat elongate-triangular, hind- 

 margin bowed, oblique ; dull olive-greenish, with numerous 

 waved dark fuscous transverse lines, partially interlined with pale 

 whitish-ochreous ; a basal patch suffused with darker posteriorly, 

 its edge running from \ of costa to ^ of inner margin, sinuate ; 

 median band formed of two suffusedly darker bauds of three lines 

 each, separated by a clear space, anterior edge from | of costa to 

 middle of inner margin, posterior edge from before | of costa to 

 f of inner margin, slightly projecting in middle, with a marked 

 sinuation above it ; a small dark fuscous transverse discal mark in 

 included space ; an oblique cloudy dark fuscous streak from apex, 

 interrupted by pale subterminal line ; a blackish hindmarginal 

 line, broken up into numerous small subquadrate spots : cilia pale 

 greenish-ochreous. Hindwings in ^ rather small, in ^ normal, 

 hindmargin rounded ; fuscous, in ^ suffused with ochreous-whitish 

 on hindmargin and more broadly towards apex, in 5 becoming 

 darker fuscous posteriorly ; cilia in ^ whitish, in ^ pale ochreous. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; in February and October, four 

 specimens. This and the preceding and following species are 

 superficially much alike ; apart from structural characters, they 

 may be distinguished easily by the shape of the basal patch. 



