292 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN TORTRICINA, 



indistinctly spotted with dark fuscous. Thorax orange-red, 

 anteriorly with three leaden-grey stripes, posteriorly more or 

 less wholly leadeu-grey. Abdomen dark purplish-grey, apex 

 blackish, anal scales in 9 flatly expanded. Forewings 

 moderate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen slightly rounded, little oblique ; deep coppery- 

 red ; anterior half of costa strigulated with black, edge 

 ochreous between the strigulas ; three curved irregular grey 

 transverse striae on basal half connected by irregular bars, 

 third median ; an irregular curved blue-leaden-metallic streak 

 from costa beyond middle to \ of dorsum, posterior edge with 

 a rounded median prominence edged with some black scales ; 

 costa posteriorly black, with four oblique blue-leaden strigulae 

 rising from white dots ; posterior area of wing crossed by three 

 very irregular variably connected and sometimes broken 

 blackish striae, and a curved series of four blue-leaden-metallic 

 spots between second and third : cilia dark purplish-fuscous. 

 Hindwings blackish-grey, more blackish posteriorly ; cilia 

 whitish-grey, with blackish subbasal line. 



Q. : Cairns (Dodd) ; from October to December, three speci- 

 mens. Apparently truly distinct from the following, but 

 more material is desirable. 



437. L. aurantiana Pryer. 



(Hemerosia aurantiana Pryer, Cist. Ent. ii., 235, pi. iv. , 

 12.) 



cT 9 • 11-13 mm. Abdomen dark grey, anal tuft in ^ 

 ochreous-whitish. Forewings deep orange-red, anterior f 

 reticulated with five or six anastomosing ochreous-brownish 

 striae, costa minutely dotted with black : a straight blue- 

 leaden-metallic streak from beneath § of costa to dorsum 

 before tornus, anteriorly edged with black scales, anterior 

 edge indented in middle ; posterior area irregularly and con- 

 fusedly striated with blackish, with a curved subterminal 

 series of four blue-leaden-metallic marks. Hindwings dark 

 grey, in 9 blackish-grey posteriorly. 



