854 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



band sometimes darker, especially on margins, sometimes con- 

 colorous ; outer edge of median band from | of costa to | of inner 

 margin, somewhat marked with black on veins, and margined 

 with a series of white dots, faintly curved near costa, forming a 

 short subtriangular projection in middle ; a small black median 

 discal dot ; sometimes a cloudy darker quadrate patch towards 

 hindmargin above middle ; a blackish hindmarginal line : cilia 

 fuscous, more or less sprinkled with whitish, with cloudy darker 

 fuscous bars. Hindwings with hindmargin rounded, in ^ waved, 

 in 2 crenulate ; fuscous-grey, with more or less obscure darker 

 lines, towards inner margin more strongly marked and partially 

 separated with whitish scales ; hindmarginal line and cilia as iu 

 forewings. 



Sydney and Blackheath (3500 feet). New South Wales ; 

 Melbourne, Victoria ; Georges Bay, Tasmania ; Mount Lofty, 

 South Australia ; from October to April, generally common. 



69. Hydr, severata, Gn. 



(Cainptogramma sever ata, Gn. X, 428 ; Phibalapteryx ferfectata. 

 Walk. 1341; Scotosia scitiferata, ib. 1357; Cidaria pro7n2)tata, 

 ib. 1410.) 



^2- 25-28 mm. Head grey, mixed with white and spotted with 

 black. Palpi in ^ 1|, in 9 2, blackish, becoming whitish towards 

 base. Antennae grey, in ^ filiform, ciliations ^. Thorax fuscous 

 mixed with whitish, with three transverse blackish bars. Abdomen 

 grey irrorated with whitish and dark grey, segmental margins 

 with blackish bars, basal segment white except black marginal bar. 

 Forewings triangular, hindmargin strongly waved, bowed, oblique ; 

 fuscous-grey, densely irrorated with white, with numerous more 

 or less strongly marked somewhat irregularly sinuate but hardly 

 waved lines of blackish irroration ; a stronger anteriorly suffused 

 somewhat curved line from ^ of costa to j of inner margin ; median 

 band somewhat darker on margins and on lower half, limiting- 

 lines more or less suffused internally with black, especially in 

 middle, antei'ior from middle of costa to before middle of inner 



