392 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, vi., 



of ^ bipectinate to apex. Thorax with sharp central crest; 

 beneath densely hairy. Femora hairy; posterior tibia 3 in £ not 

 dilated. Forewings in £ without fovea; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 11 

 from cell, anastomosing first with 12 and then with 10. 

 Closely allied to Fisera. Type, S. beggaria Gn. 



1. Forewings oblong beggaria. 



Forewings triangular 2. 



2. Hindwings oehreous ... . hypsilopha. 



Hindwings fuscous hypoleuca. 



246. Stathmorrhopa beggaria. 



Chlenias beggaria, Gn., Lep., x., p. 238, PI. xiv, f.2. Whlenias 

 porphyrinuria, Gn., Lep., x., p. 237. Stathmurrhopa beggaria, 

 Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1891, p.660. 



N.S.W.: Sydney. — Vic: Warragul, Beaconsfield, Gisborne. — 

 Tas.: Hobart.-S.A.: Mt. Lofty. 



247. Stathmorrhopa hypsilopha, n.sp. 

 viptXo(f)os, high -crested. 



£. 48 mm. Head pale ochreous-brown ; face with strong 

 rounded prominence. Palpi pale ochreous-brown, towards base 

 whitish. Antennae pale ochreous-brown; pectinations in J 1 2. 

 Thorax pale ochreous-brown ; with a high, narrow, keel-like, 

 median crest. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legsochreous-whitish: 

 anterior pair pale ochreous-brown. Forewings elongate-triangular, 

 costa rather strongly arched, apex pointed, slightly produced, 

 termen bowed, scarcely oblique; pale ochreous-brown, with a few 

 pale fuscous strigulae; cilia brown, apices whitish. Hindwings 

 with termen rounded, slightly wavy; oehreous; postmedian line 

 represented by two or three minute fuscous dots on veins; cilia 

 oehreous, apices whitish-ochreous. Underside pale brownish; 

 hindwings with a large, dark fuscous, postmedian blotch, not 

 reaching margins, and a few fuscous striguhe near apex. 



This and the following species have the forewings proportion- 

 ately broader and more triangular than in S. beggaria. Type in 

 Coll. Lyell. 



N.S.W.: Hornsby, near Sydney, in March; one specimen. 



