8i4 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



5 of inner margin, straight or somewhat irregularly bent outwards 

 below middle ; a narrow orange median line, generally broken into 

 three or four spots ; a broad orange line from | of costa to 5 of 

 inner margin, sinuate outwards beneath costa, median third forming 

 a moderate triangular projection outwards ; an irregular orange 

 subterminal line, broken into about four spots : cilia dark fuscous, 

 with several more or less obscurely indicated yellow- whitish bars. 

 Hindwings with hindmargin slightly waved, rounded ; deep 

 orange ; base narrowly suffused with fuscous ; a cloudy dark 

 fuscous straight ti'ansverse line near base ; two parallel dark 

 fuscous median lines, slightly bent in middle, anterior sometimes 

 partially obsolete ; a moderate dark fuscous hindmarginal band, 

 broader towards apex, containing a rather broad irregular orange 

 subterminal line, sometimes interrupted or obsolete on upper half ; 

 cilia as in forewings. 



Mount Kosciusko (5000-6000 feet), New South Wales; in 

 January, common. 



56. Hydr. perornata, Walk. 



( LytJwia pe7'ornata, Walk. 1056.) 



^9- 27-28 mm. Head deep yellow-ochreous, face and foreliead 

 crimson. Palpi 2^, yellow-ochreous, somewhat sprinkled with 

 black. Antennas dark grey spotted with whitish, in ^ slightly 

 subdentate, ciliations J. Thorax ochreous-orange, anterior margin 

 crimson, sometimes forming two spots. Abdomen ochreous- 

 yellow, sprinkled with dark grey on back, with a- crimson spot at 

 base. Legs ochreous-yellow, sprinkled with black. Forewings 

 triangular, hindmargin hardly waved, somewhat bowed, rather 

 oblique ; deep ochreous, somewhat orange-tinged ; a bright crimson 

 streak along costa, costal edge sprinkled with black on anterior 

 half ; dorsal cilia crimson ; a slender slightly curved crimson 

 transverse line about ^, marked with two or three blackish dots ; 

 a series of three or four blackish dots about ^, and a sinuate series 

 of about 8 blackish dots at f, somewhat projecting in middle 

 indicating margins of median band ; between these is a moderate 



