BY E. MEYRICK. 



867 



80. Xanth. argodesma, n.sp. 



9. 26 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous, 

 sprinkled with fuscous- whitish ; palpi If. Antennae dark fuscous. 

 Legs blackish, irrorated and ringed with white. Forewings 

 triangular, hindmargin strongly waved, hardly bowed, oblique ; 

 grey, irrorated with whitish and blackish, with waved cloudy 

 blackish lines ; margins of median band more strongly marked 

 with black, anterior from I of costa to I of inner margin, some- 

 what curved, preceded by a broad white fascia sprinkled with 

 pale rosy and marked with blackish on costa and veins, posterior 

 from I of costa to § of inner margin, with a slight projection 

 beneath costa, and a short bidentate median projection, followed 

 by a moderate white fascia, edged posteriorly with a pale rosy 

 suffusion except towards costa, and a series of blackish dots on 

 veins ; a black transverse median discal dot ; veins towards hind- 

 margin marked with pale rosy ; indications of an obscure whitish 

 waved subterminal line ; an obscure whitish oblique streak from 

 apex, margined beneath by a blackish suffusion ; an interrupted 

 black hindmarginal line : cilia grey sprinkled with whitish, with 

 two cloudy darker lines, obscurely barred with blackish-grey, base 

 white. Hindwings with hindmargin deeply waved, rounded ; 

 grey, sprinkled with darker, with obscure waved darker lines, 

 more blackish on inner margin ; a curved obscure double line of 

 whitish scales at f ; hindmarginal line and cilia as in forewings. 



Melbourne, Victoria ; one specimen received from Mr. G. H. 



Ptaynor. 



81. Xanth. extensata, Walk. 



(Larentia extensata, Walk. 1195.) 



(J$. 23-25 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale greyish, 

 ochveous, irrorated with blackish and whitish. Palpi 1^, blackish 

 sprinkled with whitish. Antennae grey, pectinations in ^ long 

 (a 6, b 7), continued to apex. Forewings triangular, hindmargin 

 waved, bowed, oblique ; grey, irrorated with white and dark grey, 

 with numerous waved blackish-grey lines, in ^ more blackish and 

 alternating with whitish lines ; median band in J" somewhat 



