858 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA 



fine straight whitish line, postei'ior from * of costa to I of inner 

 margin, sinuate inwards from j to middle, and on lower half, so 

 as to project slightly in middle ; a small blackish median discal 

 spot, surrounded by a ring of whitish irroration ; a whitish 

 subterminal line, indented below middle, more or less margined 

 suftusedly with dark fuscous, usually interrupted in middle and 

 beneath an oblique whitish streak from apex ; a dark fuscous 

 hindmarginal line : cilia light bronzy-fuscous, with obscure bars 

 of whitish irroration. Hind wings with hindmargin in ^ entire, 

 in 5 waved, rounded ; light grey, somewhat darker posteriorly ; 

 in (J a small median discal spot of orange scales ; in 9 an obscure 

 whitish subterminal line ; cilia in ^ unicolorous light grey, in 9 

 light grey with darker grey bars alternating with whitish irroration. 



Blackheath (3500 feet). New South Wales ; Deloraine, Tas- 

 mania ; in November and December, locally common, frequenting 

 swampy places. 



73. Mel. glaiidulata, Gn. 



( Phihalapteryx glandulata, Gn. X, 439, pi. x, 6 ; Euholia 

 unchdata, Eos., Ann. Mag. N.H. 1885, 432.) 



(^9- 23-27 mm. Head fuscous irrorated with whitish. Palpi 

 2|, ochreous-fuscous, base white. Antennae whitish- fuscous, in ^ 

 filiform, ciliations ^. Thorax fuscous sprinkled with whitish, 

 anterior margin and a slender transverse median bar darker 

 ochreous-fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous irrorated with fus- 

 cous. Forewings triangular, hindmargin waved, rather strongly 

 bowed, oblique ; fuscous, irrorated with whitish, with numerous 

 nearly straight fine dark fuscous lines, in ^ partially more ochreous- 

 tinged ; costa in ^ suffused with ochreous-brownish from base to | ; 

 median band in ^ limited by blackish-fuscous lines suffused 

 internally with ochreous-brown except towards costa, in Q hardly 

 more marked than ordinary lines, anterior from middle of costa to 

 before middle of inner margin, straight, posterior from g of costa 

 to ^ of inner margin, faintly sinuate inwards above middle and 

 above inner margin, and more strongly below middle, so as to 

 form a slight median projection ; a dark fuscous median discal 



