864 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



ochreous mixed with blackish. Antennse dark fuscous, pecti- 

 nations long (a 6, b 8), apical I simple. Legs dark fuscous, irrorated 

 and ringed with whitish-ochreous. Forewings triangular, hind- 

 margin hardly waved, very slightly bowed, little oblique ; light 

 fuscous or brown-reddish, more or less densely irrorated with 

 whitish-ochi-eous, with numerous very faint darker somewhat 

 waved transverse lines, marked with conspicuous black dots on 

 the ochreous-whitish veins between basal patch and median band, 

 and between median band and subterminal line ; basal patch 

 limited by a curved dark fuscous line at I ; median band limited 

 anteriorly by two somewhat curved dark fuscous lines from before 

 middle of costa to before middle of inner margin, suffused with 

 blackish or reddish above middle and towards inner margin, 

 posteriorly by three dark fuscous rather iri'egular lines from about 

 § of costa to § of inner margin, suffused with blackish or reddish 

 above middle, slightly projecting very obtusely in middle ; included 

 space nearly clear, with a moderate dark fuscous discal dot ; 

 subterminal line slender, waved, pale, preceded by a narrow 

 darker suffusion ; a hindmarginal series of blackish dots : cilia 

 rather dark fuscous, mixed with ochreous and whitish, terminal 

 half whitish-ochreous or pale reddish. Hindwings with hind- 

 margin hardly waved, rounded ; whitish-fuscous, posteriorly with 

 faintly indicated waved darker lines ; a median band of four 

 somewhat stronger lines, rather bent above middle ; hindmarginal 

 dots and cilia as in forewings. 



Mount Wellington, Tasmania, in February ; two specimens 

 received from Mr. G. F. Mathew, who found the species commonly 

 there. 



78. Xanth. subidaria, Gn. 



(Coremia subidaria, Gn. X, 412; ?C. cymaria, ib. 415; C. 

 permissata, Walk. 1317; C. regtolata, ib. 1318; C. relictata, ib, 

 1318 ; C. acutata, ib. 1319; ? Cidaria sodaliata, ib. 1410.) 



(J^. 23-26 mm. Head and palpi brownish-ochreous or whitish- 

 ochreous, mixed with reddish and dark fuscous ; palpi in ^ 2, in ^ 

 2^, base whitish. Antennse grey, pectinations in ^ long (a 6, b 8), 



