276 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN TOltTRICINA, 



posterior part of costa and upper half of termeu suffused with 

 dark fuscous, with a stronger white costal strigula l^efore apex, 

 whence an indistinct whitish stria runs to termen below middle : 

 cilia brownish with rows of whitish points, on tornus paler, 

 beneath tornus with a dark fuscous spot. Hindwings grey, thinly- 

 scaled, with a hyaline patch below cell from base to vein 2; veins 

 and a suffused terminal fascia blackish; cilia fuscous, towards tips 

 whitish, with dark fuscous subbasal line. 



Q.: Cairns (Dodd); in October, two specimens. Type in Coll. 

 Lyell, cotype in Coll. Lower. 



398. A. thystas, n.sp. 



(J 9. 13-15 mm. Head brownish or red-brown, lower part of 

 face in ^ white. Palpi ascending, white, in ^ suffused with 

 yellow-brownish, base of all joints and a subapical band of second 

 blackish. Thorax brownish or red-brown, variably marked or 

 suffused with dark fuscous. Posterior tibiae without tuft. Fore- 

 wings elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa slightly arched, 

 apex rounded-obtuse, termen almost straight, vertical; red-brown, 

 variably mixed with blackish and transversely strigulated with 

 ochreous- whitish, sometimes almost wholly obscuring groundcolour; 

 costa mostly blackish, with scattered oblique white strigulae, two 

 subconfluent pairs usually forming a pale patch before middle; 

 two white strigulee meeting at a right angle enclosing apex; 

 ocellus subconical, crossed by five black dashes, and enclosed 

 anteriorly by two obscure leaden-metallic strigae edged with 

 ochreous-white, and posteriorly by an irregular patch of leaden- 

 metallic suffusion, upper portion of ocellus sometimes occupied by 

 a suffused ochreous-whitish patch : cilia red-brownish irrorated 

 with ochreous-white, usually spotted with blackish. Hindwings 

 dark grey, thinly-scaled anteriorly; cilia grey-whitish, with dark 

 grey subbasal shade. 



Nkw Guinea : St. Aignan I. (Meek) — Q.: Cairns (Dodd); from 

 September to December, seven specimens. 



399. A. phyUanthana Meyr. 

 {Antithesia lihyllanthana Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 1881, 641). 



