870 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAX LEPIDOPTERA, 



surrounded with a dull red suffusion ; a fine black interrupted 

 hindmarginal line : cilia whitish-ochx'eous, basal half mixed with 

 light i-eddish, and with some dark grey scales indicating obscure 

 bars. Hind wings with hind margin somewhat waved, rounded, 

 upper half sinuate inwards ; whitish-ochreous, with cloudy dull 

 red nearly straight lines, somewhat bent near costa ; posterior 

 margin of median band twice slightly sinuate, marked with black 

 dots ; subterminal line faintly whitish, preceded by two more 

 sti'ongly marked lines ; hindmarginal line and cilia as in forewings. 

 Glen Innes (3500 feet) and Sydney, New South Wales ; in 

 November and December, two specimens. This species has so 

 muoh general resemblance to some Boarmiadae, that it is difficult 

 not to infer intentional mimicry. 



84. XantJi. xerodes, n.sp. 



^^. 22-24 mm. Head and thorax grey irrorated with whitish 

 and black, thorax with two ill-defined black transverse bars. 

 Palpi 2^, blackish, base whitish. Antennae dark grey, pectinations 

 in (^ moderate (a 3, b S^), continued to apex. Abdomen grey, 

 irrorated with blackish and whitish, with a double dorsal series of 

 small black spots, basal segment with a white baud. Legs blackish, 

 irrorated and ringed with white. Forewings triangular, apex 

 slightly prominent, hindmargin waved, bowed, oblique ; grey, 

 sprinkled with white, with numerous irregular waved blackish 

 lines ; veins sometimes partially marked with ferruginous ; basal 

 patch slightly darker, outer edge curved ; space between this and 

 median band sometimes suffused with reddish-ochreous ; median 

 band slightly darker, margins sometimes partially suff'used with 

 black above middle, anterior margin from : of costa to I of inner 

 margin, curved, posterior from I of costa to | of inner margin, 

 slightly projecting beneath costa, median third forming a short 

 tolerably acute projection ; a transverse black median discal dot, 

 sometimes ringed with whitish ; sometimes a light reddish-ochreous 

 fascia beyond median band, marked with black and white on veins; 

 subterminal line waved, whitish ; an interrupted black hind- 

 marginal line : cilia rather dark fuscous, with basal, median, and 



