BY A. .TEFPEBIS TDRNER. 179 



Victorian examples resemble closely tbe more heavily marked Brisbane <S, b\it 

 the ? often has a whitish costal suffusion, and postmedian white lines, which 

 are not developed in tlie Brisbane 9. Tasmania-! examples are move aistintt, 

 both sexes are darker, the d" with much fuscous suffusion and distinct post- 

 median white lines, the ? with a broad, whitish, costal suffusion, but it is im- 

 possible to separate them specifically from the mainland form. A. ochroptera 

 Low. (^ psammochroa Low.) is a local race from nortii-west Victoria and South 

 Australia, in which the wings are whitish or oehreous-whitish, the marking's dark 

 and strongly marked. 



N. Qld. : Ingham, Townsville; (Jld.: Gympie, Nanango, Brisbane; N.S. 

 Wales: Sydney; Vic: Melbourne, Mildura; Tas. : Launceston, Hobart: S. Au.~1.: 

 Mt. Lofty, Cootanoorina, Cockburn. 



28. Anthela ariprepes,* n.sp. 



c?. 04 mm. Head and thorax grey with some whitish hairs. Palpi short 

 (1); second joint densely hairy beneath; tei'minal joint rather long; fuscous 

 with some whitish hairs. Antennae fuscous with a few whitish scales on stalk. 

 Abdomen yellow, towards base mixed with fuscous; fuft pale-yellow; under- 

 side whitish. Legs fuscous; apices of femora and tibiae pale yellow. Fore- 

 wings triangular, costa nearly straight to :], arched before apex, apex rectangular, 

 termen slightly bowed, slightly oblique; fuscous uniformly irrorated with 

 whitish, appearing dark-grey; a large circular white spot, narrowly outlined 

 ■with dark-fuscous, beneath i costa, and a similar, rather smaller, spot beneath 

 mid costa; lines fuscous; a very indistinct, dentate, outwardly curved line at 

 T ; a fine, acutely dentate line from |- costa, curved at first outwardly and then 

 inwardly to * dorsum; a similar line from l costa to | dorsum; cilia concolorous. 

 Hindwings with termen rounded; 6 and 7 stalked, 11 absent; yellow; a fuscous 

 discal s))ot before middle; a curved, slightly dentate, fuscous median, trans- 

 verse line; a curved, dentate, fuscous, transverse line at 1; a broad, dark-grey, 

 terminal band with slight yellowish irroration; cilia dark-grey, apices whitish. 

 Underside whitish with grey irroration; disc of forewing-s suffused with yellow, 

 except towards costa and termen; discal spots with thicker dark-fuscous rings 

 and smaller white centres; no basal line; postmedian line of both wings reddish; 

 subterminal line as on upperside; a faint, whitish, wavy, submarginal line; two, 

 pale-centred, fuscous, discal spots on hindwing. 



This, with ^-1. magnified, ascisceiis, and stygiana, forms a natural group. 

 Besides other characters, it differs from magnifica in the postmedian line being 

 denticulate, more strongly curved, and posterior in situation, while that of the 

 hindwings is median, not at i. Type in National Museum, Melbourne. 



Vic: Lake Hattah (near extreme N.E. corner of Victoi'ia) in February (J. 

 E. Dixon) ; one specimen. 



29. Anthela stygiana. 



Darala stygiana, Butl., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (5), ix., 1882. p. 88. 

 d. 74 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous with a few whitisli haii-s. 

 Antennae grey-whitish, pectinations fuscous. Abdomen fuscous, sides, except at 

 base, brown, tuft and underside whitish. Legs fuscous; tips of coxal hairs red- 

 dish-brown. Forewings rather narrowly triangular, costa straight to I, theuee 

 strongly arched, apex tolerably pointed, termen bowed, oblique; fuscous, min- 



* apmpETrr)?, splendid. 



