814 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



legs dark fuscous, middle legs fuscous, posterior legs white. Fore- 

 wings triangular, hindmargin nearly straight or slightly bowed ; 

 light bluish-green, with numerous indistinct waved green-whitish 

 transverse lines ; a fuscous costal streak from base to apex (rarely 

 absent ?), costal edge more yellowish-tinged ; a dai'k green discal 

 dot : cilia white. Hindwings with hindmargin rounded, somewhat 

 bent in middle ; colour, lines, and cilia as in forewings ; sometimes 

 a dark green discal dot. 



Glen Innes (3500 feet), Bathurst (2500 feet), Sydney, Blackheath 

 (.3500 feet), and Mount Kosciusko (4000 feet), New South Wales ; 

 Hobart and Deloraine, Tasmania ; Albany, West Australia ; from 

 August to February, common. Occurs also throughout New 

 Zealand. My material has not enabled me to satisfy myself 

 whether the female specimens with more rounded wings, and 

 without fuscous colouring of head and costa of forewings (provi- 

 sionally included above) are really referable to this species or 

 distinct ; I have seen three, two being from New Zealand, the 

 third from New South Wales. 



23. Asth. xylocyma, n.sp. 



f^9. 21-23 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish-fuscous ; 

 face rather dark ochreous-brown ; abdomen with an obscure double 

 row of dark fuscous dots on back, in ^ with blackish exsertible 

 genital tuft. Palpi fuscous-whitish, above dark fuscous. Antennse 

 whitish, obscurely dotted with fuscous, ciliations in ^ •^. Legs 

 ochreous-whitish, anterior pair fuscous. Forewings triangular, 

 hindmargin bowed, oblique ; pale greyish-ochreous, with numerous 

 indistinct curved waved fuscous lines, partially marked with 

 darker fuscous dots on veins ; a blackish discal dot ; sometimes a 

 small quadrate spot outlined with dark fuscous on inner margin 

 beyond middle ; a hindmarginal series of dark fuscous marks 

 arranged in pairs : cilia pale whitish-fuscous. Hindwings with 

 hindmargin rounded, in ^ with anal angle fringed with dense 

 recurved hairs ; colour and markings as in forewings, but without 

 dorsal spot. 



