BY E. MEYRICK. 869 



dot ; subterminal line obscurely paler, waved ; a dark fuscous 

 hindmarginal line : cilia fuscous, faintly reddish-tinged. Hind- 

 wings with hindmargin almost dentate, rounded ; light fuscous, 

 slightly reddish-tinged, irrorated with darker, with cloudy waved 

 darker fuscous lines; a transverse dai'k fuscous discal dot; posterior 

 edge of median band somewhat darker, almost straight, in ^ with 

 slight central tooth ; a subterminal series of pale dots ; hind- 

 marginal line and cilia as in forewings. 



Dawson River, Queensland ; Newcastle, Sydney, and Blackheath 

 (3500 feet), New South Wales ; from September to December, in 

 Marc]], May, and July, common. 



83. Xanth. anaspila, n.sp. 



^(^. 23-27 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, lower half of face and 

 a bar on forehead fuscous-red. Palpi l-g-, whitish-ochreous, 

 irrox'ated with blackish. Antennse fuscous-whitish, pectinations 

 in ^ rather short (a 21, h 3), extreme apex simple. Thorax 

 whitish-ochi"eous, patagia with two transverse lines of fuscous 

 scales. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, extreme segmental margins 

 white, preceded in ^ by reddish, in 9 by blackish transverse 

 lines. Legs ochreous-whitish, anterior and middle tibise suffused 

 with light purplish, anterior and middle tarsi suffused with dark 

 fuscous except apex of joints. Forewings somewhat elongate- 

 triangular, apex slightly produced, hindmargin in ^ entire, in 9 

 faiutly waved, bowed, oblique ; whitish-ochreous, with numerous 

 slender somewhat irregular dull red lines, angulated near costa ; 

 outer edge of basal patch indicated by two or three blackish dots ; 

 margins of median band indicated by series of blackish dots on 

 veins, anterior from before middle of costa to ? of inner margin, 

 angulated beneath costa, posterior from 5 of costa to § of inner 

 margin, somewhat projecting beneath costa, slightly sinuate 

 outwards in middle, where it is marked with a round dull red spot 

 containing two small confluent blackish spots ; subterminal line 

 faintly whitish, not waved ; veins partially marked with blackish 

 towards hindmargin, especially two above middle, which ai^e 



