BY E. MEYRICK. 841 



of costa, posteriorly attenuated ; a curved series of blackish dots 

 near base ; median band limited by two series of blackish dots, 

 more or less white-edged externally, anterior from ^ of costa to ^ 

 of inner margin, curved, posterior from before f of costa to | of 

 inner margin, slightly curved and irregular but hardly projecting ; 

 a subterminal series of minute blackish dots, posteriorly white- 

 edged ; a black hindmarginal line : cilia whitish-ochreous, with 

 two broad cloudy fuscous lines, base sprinkled with white. Hind- 

 wings with hindmargin rounded, strongly waved, with apical and 

 median teeth more marked ; colour and markings (except costal 

 streak) as in forewings, but dots near base obsolete, postmedian 

 series of dots slightly angulated in middle. 



Campbelltown and Georges Bay, Tasmania ; Mount Lofty, 

 South Australia ; in December, four specimens. 



52. Hydr. polycarpa, n.sp. 



(J9. 26-28 mm. Head, thorax, and palpi black, mixed with 

 yellowish hair-scales; palpi 2^, becoming whitish-yellowish towards 

 base. Antennae blackish, in ^ filiform, ciliations \. Abdomen 

 black, irrorated with ochreous-yellow towards sides, segmented 

 margins yellow-whitish. Legs whitish-yellowish, irrorated with 

 black. Forewings triangular, hindmargin hardly waved, gently 

 rounded, rather oblique ; blackish-fuscous, sufFusedly mixed with 

 fuscous-crimson, the dark ground-colour forming irregular trans- 

 verse lines ; a few whitish scales at base, and sometimes in centre 

 of disc ; a nearly straight irregular ochreous-white line at 5 ; 

 median band limited by two broad ochreous-white irregular-edged 

 fascia-like lines, anterior from beyond ^ of costa to before middle 

 of inner margin, nearly straight, posterior from | of costa to 

 beyond § of inner margin, median third forming a short subtri- 

 angular projection ; a moderate waved irregular ochreous-white 

 subterminal line, sometimes interrupted : cilia blackish-grey, base 

 mixed with dull crimson, terminal half bari'ed with yellowish- 

 white. Hind wings with hindmargin slightly waved, rounded; 



