BY A. JEFFERIP TURNER. 393 



248. Stathmorrhopa hypoleuca, n.sp. 

 viroXevKos, white beneath. 



£. 18-52 mm. Head reddish-brown; face with a rounded pro- 

 minence excavated at apex into a shallow cavity filled with pale 

 ochreous and rimmed with dark fuscous. Palpi brown. An- 

 tenna? pale grey; pectinations in £ 6. Thorax reddish-brown; 

 with a narrow median crest. (Abdomen broken). Legs fuscous; 

 posterior femora and tibia*, and outer surface of middle tibiae 

 whitish. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa arched towards 

 base, thence straight, apex round-pointed, termen bowed, oblique; 

 pale reddish-brown with sparsely scattered fuscous strigulse; a 

 small, round, pale fuscous, median, discal spot; a faintly marked 

 or obsolete line of fuscous strigulse from g dorsum obliquely out- 

 wards; cilia brown. Hindwings with termen slightly rounded, 

 slightly wavy; fuscous; base white over a restricted area, or to 

 beyond middle; cilia fuscous, apices white. Underside white, 

 with broad, suffused, fuscous, terminal band on each wing. Type 

 in Coll. Lyell. 



Vic: Gisborne, in April and May (Lyell); Birchip, in April 

 (Goudie); three specimens. 



Gen. 79. Nvctkhephes. 



Nycterephes, Turn., Tr. R.S.S.A., 1906, p. 135. 



Face with strong rounded prominence, smooth-scaled. Tongue 

 well -developed. Palpi moderate, porrect, densely rough-scaled; 

 terminal joint very short Antenna? of £ bipectinate nearly to 

 apex. Thorax with a posterior crest; beneath hairy. Abdomen 

 not crested. Femora smooth. Forewings in £ without fovea; 

 10 and 11 long stalked, their stalk connected by a bar with 1*2, 

 10 anastomosing with 9. Hindwings with 6 and 7 connate or 

 approximated at base; otherwise normal. 



Type, N. coracopa Turn. The neu ration of the forewings as 

 originally given is, I think, incorrect; that now given is taken 

 from a second ^ example. Probably it is related to Smyriodes, 



249. Nyctkrepiies coracopa. 

 Nycterephes coracopa, Turn., Tr. It.S.S.A., 1906, p. 136. 

 Antenna; in £ with apical j 1 ^ simple. 

 W.A.: Bridgetown, Beverley. 



