402 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, vi., 



A true Chlenias, but exceptional in vein 10 anastomosing 

 strongly with 9, not merely connected with it by a short bar. 

 Type in Coll. Lyell. 



Vic: Beaconsfield, in May, June, and July; Sale, in August. — 

 Tas.: Sheffield, in November. Five specimens. 



270. Chlenias stenosticha, n.sp. 

 (TTei'ocrTt^os, with narrow streaks- 



<J. 45 mm. Head fuscous, finely irrorated with white; face 

 rounded, prominent, shortly rough-haired. Palpi If, grey, lower 

 edge and base white. Antennae whitish-grey; pectinations in g 

 5. Thorax fuscous with fine white irroration, so as to appear 

 grey. Abdomen brown-whitish. Legs grey; posterior pair, 

 except tarsi, whitish. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa very 

 slightly arched, apex round-pointed, termen bowed, oblique, 

 whitish-grey; markings blackish; a subdorsal line from base to 

 ~, slightly dorsally bent before middle; a short oblique streak 

 from \ costa, with several fine longitudinal streaks on veins 

 between it and dorsum; a long, fine streak in cell, and another 

 on fold; a series of short streaks representing postmedian line; 

 in terminal area a series of long, fine, inter-neural streaks running 

 into termen ; cilia grey- whitish. Hind wings with termen 

 rounded, wavy; fuscous, becoming whitish towards base; cilia 

 whitish. Underside of forewing fuscous; of hindwing, whitish 

 with dark fuscous terminal band. Type in Coll. Lyell. 



Vic: Blacki-ock, near Melbourne, in March; one specimen. 



271. Chlenias mksosticha, n.sp. 

 /xecroo-Tt^os, with central streak. 



<£. 35 mm., £• 42 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous, finely 

 irrorated with whitish. Antenna? grey; pectinations in £ 5. 

 Abdomen whitish with pale fuscous irroration. Legs whitish 

 with fuscous irroration; tarsi fuscous, annulated with whitish; 

 anterior pair dark fuscous. Forewings narrow elongate-tri- 

 angular, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, termen bowed, 

 oblique; whitish-grey; costa more or less suffused with fuscous; 

 a dark fuscous (in Q blackish) streak along median vein from 

 base, giving off finer streaks along veins 2, 3, and 4; a short 



