BY E. MEYRICK. 847 



somewhat brownish-tinged, becoming yellower towards costa ; a 

 very fine somewhat curved white transvei'se line about 5, margined 

 with a few blackish scales ; margins of median band indicated by 

 two slightly waved very fine white lines, edged with blackish 

 scales, sometimes partially interrupted or obscure, anterior some- 

 what angulated above middle, posterior slightly curved outwards 

 in middle ; between these is a snow-white slenderly black-margined 

 central fascia, varying from very slender to moderately broad, 

 anterior edge slightly concave, posterior forming a small rounded 

 projection in middle, sometimes interrupted below middle ; a 

 whitish dot on costa before apex : cilia deep ochreous, with a 

 dark grey median line, terminal half snow-white faintly barred 

 with grey. Hindwings with hindmargin waved, rounded ; 

 ochreous-orange ; hindmargin sometimes narrowly tinged with 

 fuscous ; a dark fuscous hindmarginal line ; cilia fuscous, terminal 

 half snow-white. 



Mount Kosciusko (4500 feet), New South Wales ; Ballarat, 

 Mount Macedon, and Phillip Island, Victoria; Launceston and 

 Deloraine, Tasmania; from November to January, locally common. 



60. Hydr. polyxantha, n.sp. 



(J. 25 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax deep ochreous-yellow ; 

 palpi 2'\, with a few fuscous scales. Antennse dark grey spotted 

 with whitish, slightly subdentate, ciliations ^. Abdomen ochreous- 

 yellowish. Legs ochreous- whitish, irrorated with dark fuscous. 

 Forewings triangular, hindmargin hardly waved, bowed, rather 

 oblique ; deep ochreous-yellow ; costa irrorated with dark fuscous 

 near base ; a slender somewhat curved interrupted line of dark 

 fuscous scales about 5 ; margins of median band indicated by two 

 series of cloudy dark fuscous dots, anterior slightly bent above 

 middle, posterior somewhat pi'ojecting in middle ; between these 

 is a moderate fuscous somewhat irregular-edged central fascia, 

 margined with darker, anterior edge slightly concave, posterior 

 forming a small subtriangular projection in middle ; a rather 

 narrow fuscous suffusion along hindmargin, attenuated to a point 



