BY E. MEYRICK. 875 



Mount Kosciusko (6500 feet), New South "Wales, in January ; 

 one specimen. This is a curious species, very difterent from any 

 of the above, but having many points of resemblance to the New 

 Zealand X. nejyhelias, to which it is probably allied. 



19. Dasyuris, Gn. 



Face rough-haired or with cone of scales. Palpi moderate, 

 porrected, with long dense rough hairs. Antennse in ^ ciliated. 

 Thorax and coxte hairy beneath. Posterior tibite with all spurs 

 present. Fore wings with areole double. Hind wings with veins 

 6 and 7 stalked. 



At present only known elsewhere from New Zealand, where 

 there are several species. 



Hind wings with yellow markings 91. euclidiata. 



Hind wings without yellow markings 90. decisaria. 



90. Das. decisaria, Walk. 



(Fidonia decisaria, Walk. 1671.) 



^. 21-22 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax blackish, mixed with 

 white and ochreous-yellowish ; palpi 2|. Antennae dark grey. 

 Abdomen blackish, irrorated with white. Forewings somewhat 

 elongate-triangular, hind margin hardly waved, rounded, oblique ; 

 fuscous, irregularly irrorated with white and pale ferruginous, 

 with obscure cloudy waved darker fuscous lines ; a rather curved 

 more blackish line at \ ; median band limited by stronger lines 

 marked with black and edged anteriorly with whitish, anterior 

 from 5 of costa to I of inner mai-gin, curved, posterior from | of 

 costa to f of inner margin, somewhat bent beneath costa, median 

 third forming a moderate subacute projection ; a black median 

 discal dot ; subterminal line whitish, waved, only distinct towards 

 costa, where it is preceded by a dark fuscous suffusion : cilia 

 fuscous, mixed with blackish, and barred with white. Hindwings 

 with hindmargin slightly waved, rounded ; rather dark grey, with 

 faint cloudy lines formed by whitish irroration ; a distinct whitish 

 postmediau line, edged with darker grey anteriorly, obtusely 

 angulated in middle ; cilia as in forewings. 



