862 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



ochreous-reddish, with numerous regular waved fuscous or dark 

 fuscous lines, more or less marked with blackish dots on veins ; a 

 small basal patch suifused with brown towards costa, its outer 

 edge bent or curved near costa ; median band sometimes suffused 

 with brown or dull reddish, anterior edge from before | of costa 

 to 5 of inner margin, curved, posterior edge from | of costa to | of 

 inner margin, slightly bent or curved near costa, median third 

 forming a short obtuse somewhat bidentate projection, always 

 occupied by a cloudy dark grey spot ; sometimes a whitish 

 irroration beyond this ; a blackish median discal dot ; anterior 

 margin of subterminal line indicated by a partial series of 

 cloudy blackish-grey spots, most marked towards costa ; a 

 more or less marked oblique dark fuscous suffusion from apex, 

 well-defined above ; a hindmarginal series of black dots, connected 

 by a fine line : cilia light ochreous or fuscous, sometimes reddish- 

 tinged, faintly barred with darker. Hindwings with hindmargin 

 strongly waved, rounded ; colour, lines, discal and hindmarginal 

 dots, and cilia as in forewings ; median band with outer edge 

 curved on upper half, without pi'ojection or darker spot. 



Fernshaw, Victoria ; Hobart, Tasmania ; Perth and Albany, 

 West Australia ; from October to December, rather common. 



18. Xantiiorhoe, Hb. 



Face with short cone of scales. Palpi moderate, porrected, 

 rough-scaled. Antennse in ^^ bipectinated, apex often filiform. 

 Posterior tibiae with all spurs present. Forewings with areole 

 double. Hindwings with veins 6 and 7 stalked. 



A genus of considerable extent and general distribution, but 

 everywhere less numerous than Hydriomena, except in New 

 Zealand, where it is the more largely developed of the two. 



1. Hindwings clear orange 87. vicissata. 



Hindwings not clear orange 2. 



2. Posterior margin of median band of fore- 



wings straight 88, 2^ercrassata. 



