872 REVISION OP AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



Blackheath {3500 feet) and Mount Kosciusko (5000-5700 feet), 

 New South Wales ; Deloraine, Tasmania ; from December to 

 February, locally common. 



86. Xanth. heliacaria, Gn. 

 (Coremia heliacaria, Gn. X, 420.) 



f^. 26 mm. Head and thorax rather dark fuscous, mixed with 

 pale ochreous. Palpi 2^, dark fuscous mixed with whitish-ochreous. 

 Antennae rather dark fuscous, pectinations rather long (a 5, b 6), 

 continued to apex. Abdomen i-ather dark fuscous, irrorated with 

 whitish-ochreous. Forewings triangular, hind margin waved, 

 rounded, oblique ; dark fuscous, mixed with pale yellowish-ochreous 

 except towards hindmargin ; base sprinkled with whitish ; a 

 whitish line at 5, bent near costa ; median band limited by well- 

 marked white lines, anterior from r of costa to before middle of 

 inner margin, somewhat curved near costa, sinuate near inner 

 margin, posterior from | of costa to | of inner margin, median 

 third forming a moderate rectangular projection, indented above 

 and below this; a transverse black median discal dot between 

 these, and traces of a straight whitish median line ; subterminal 

 line slender, white, somewhat irregular : cilia fuscous, sprinkled 

 with whitish, forming faint bars. Hindwings with hindmargin 

 waved, rounded ; orange-yellowish, wholly irrorated with fuscous ; 

 a moderate dai'k fuscous hindmarginal band, cut by a cloudy 

 orange-yellowish subterminal line ; cilia as in forewings. 



Mount Lofty, South Australia; one specimen received from 

 Mr. E. L. Guest. According to Guenee the species occurs also in 

 Tasmania, and the 9 is similar. 



87. Xanth. vicissata, Gn. 

 (Coremia vicissata, Gn. X, 421, pi. ix, 5.) 



cjj. 28-34 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous, mixed with 

 pale ochreous and sometimes with reddish. Palpi in ^ 2, in 9 21 

 whitish-ochreous, mixed with dark fuscous. Antennae dark 

 fuscous, obscurely spotted with paler, pectinations in ^ moderate 



