856 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



Sydney, New South Wales, in October ; one specimen received 

 from Mr. G. H. Raynor. I cannot positively determine whether 

 I am correct in identifying my specimen with Guenee's and 

 Walker's species, for want of material ; but I have no doubt that 

 the great preponderance of white marking, which cliaracterises 

 my specimen, is an inconstant and variable point, which could not 

 be relied on for distinction ; and, on the whole, the balance of 

 probability seems in favour of their identity. 



71. Hydr. leucophanes, n.sp. 



(J. 26 mm. Head and thorax brownish-ochreous. Palpi 2^, 

 pale ochreous, mixed with blackish. Antennae whitish-ochreous, 

 filiform, ciliations ^. Abdomen light ochreous, segmental margins 

 mixed with blackish. Legs whitish-ochreous irrorated with 

 blackish. Forewings rather elongate-triangular, hindmargin 

 strongly waved, bowed, oblique, inner margin rather strongly 

 rounded ; light bi'Owni.sh-ochreous, with numerous slender indis- 

 tinct rather irregular ochreous-brown lines, somewhat marked 

 with blackish, especially on veins ; margins of median band very 

 ill-defined, anterior formed by an indistinct slightly curved reddish- 

 brown shade from g of costa to before 5 of inner margin, posterior 

 by a slender indistinct line of blackish scales from g of costa to f 

 of inner margin, followed by obscure whitish dots on veins, upper ? 

 rather strongly curved outwards ; a black median discal dot ; a 

 pale oblique streak from apex, terminating in a larger white dot on 

 margin of median band, margined beneath by a fuscous suffusion ; 

 a narrow fuscous sufi"usion along hindmargin, forming a small 

 darker spot above anal angle : cilia pale brownish-ochreous mixed 

 with darker fuscous. Hindwings with hindmargin deeply waved, 

 rounded ; ochreous-grey-whitish ; inner margin suffused with 

 brownish-ochreous, marked with darker fuscous transverse lines, 

 with one at § more blackish and followed by whitish scales ; a 

 faint fuscous suffusion towards hindmargin ; a blackish hind- 

 marginal line ; cilia as in forewings. 



Deloraine, Tasmania, in December ; one specimen. 



