404 REVISION OV AUSTRALIAN LEPtDOPTERA, vi., 



whitish. Abdomen ochreous- whitish, begs whitish-grey: pos- 

 terior pair whitish. Forewings elongate-oval, costa strongly and 

 evenly arched, apex round-pointed, ternien bowed, oblique, 

 slightly wavy; grey-whitish with dark fuscous streaks; a sub- 

 dorsal streak from base nearly to tornus; a fine longitudinal 

 streak in cell; a short, oblique streak from ] costa: a series of 

 fine interneural streaks running into termen ; cilia whitish. 

 Hindwings much broader than forewings, with termen rounded, 

 irregularly waved: whitish, towards termen L f rev; cilia wliitish. 

 Underside of forewings pale grey; of hindwings whitish, with a 

 fuscous terminal band obsolete towards costa. Type in West 

 Australian Museum. 



AV.A.: Perth, in April; one specimen received from Mr. W. 

 B. Alexander. 



Gen. 89. Stibaroma. 



Stibaroma, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1891, p. 669. 



Face smooth, somewhat projecting, rounded. Tongue well 

 developed. Palpi moderately long, porrect, densely rough- 

 scaled; terminal joint short, obtuse. Antenme in £ bipectinate, 

 apex simple. Thorax with slight central crest; beneath densely 

 hairy. Femora hairy; posterior tibiae in £ not dilated. Fore- 

 wings in £ without fovea; 10 and 11 arising separately from 

 cell, 10 sometimes connected with 9. Hindwings with cell 

 rather long; 3 and 4 sometimes connate; 8 closely approximated 

 to cell beyond middle. 



Type, <S'. melanotoxa Meyr. The connection of vein 10 with 9 

 is inconstant; in fact 1 have not observed it in any of the few 

 examples 1 have been able to examine. The genus is closely 

 allied to Chlenias, differing only in the scaling of the thorax and 

 in some minor points. 



274. Stibakoma mklanotoxa. 



Stibaroma melanotoxa, Meyr., Proc. Linn. £o<;. N. S. Wales, 

 1891, p.669. 



N.S. W.: Sydney. —Vic: Melbourne, Gisborne, Wimmera. — 

 S.A.: Mt. Lofty. 



Mr. Lyell has a fine aberration taken at Hornsby, near Syd- 



