1144 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



4. Tax. isomeris, n.sp. 



(J. 19 mm. Head grey sprinkled with white, face black. Palpi 

 1§, black. Antennae grey. Thorax pale ochreous-grey. Abdomen 

 whitish-grey. Legs dark grey, posterior pair irrorated with paler. 

 T'orewings triangular, hindmargin straight above, rounded beneath; 

 12 connected by bar with 11 ; grey, suffusedly irrorated with light 

 greyish-ochreous, especially towards costa ; costa shortly and 

 suflfusedly strigulated with dark grey; two small triangular blackish 

 spots on costa at I and § ; a short mark of mixed blackish and 

 ochreous scales on inner margin at ^, and a dot between this and 

 first costal spot ; a moderate outwards-curved series of similar dots 

 from second costal spot to a short mark on inner margin at f , 

 slightly sinuate inwards on lower third ; a rather large black dot 

 in disc above middle ; faint traces of a paler waved subterminal 

 line ; a hindmarginal series of black dots : cilia grey irrorated 

 with black. Hindwmgs with hindmargin rounded ; grey ; a 

 darker discal dot ; a short cloudy dark grey mark on inner margin 

 at f , with faint indications of a continuous transverse line ; hind- 

 marginal dots and cilia as in forewings, but more obscure. 



Albany, West Australia, in December ; one specimen. This 

 species is very well characterised by the triangular black costal 

 spots. 



5. Tax. exsectaria, Walk. 



(Panagra exsectai'ia, Walk. 1011.) 

 - ^9. 17-21 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, more or less ferruginous- 

 tinged, face ferruginous, back of crown grey. Palpi 1, ferrugin- 

 ous, base whitish. Antennae pale grey. Thorax light ashy-grey, 

 sometimes with a few black scales. Abdomen whitish-grey. Legs 

 rather dark fuscous, femora and posterior tibiae irrorated with 

 whitish. Forewings triangular, hindmargin slightly sinuate on 

 upper half, rounded beneath; 12 connected by bar with 11; grey, 

 finely irrorated with ashy-whitish, and sometimes with a few black 

 scales, in 9 more or less sufi'usedly irrorated with brownish on 



