BY E. MEYRICK. 1159 



(J9. 30-32 mm. Head dark fuscous, with a whitish transverse 

 line below forehead. Palpi dark fuscous, base whitish. Antennae 

 black with a white line on back. Thorax (partly defaced) blackish, 

 ])atagia slenderly margined with whitish. Abdomen blackish, 

 segmental margins whitish. Legs black, sprinkled with white. 

 Forewings triangular, hindmargin rounded ; blackish, sprinkled 

 with white towards base ; a yellowish-white fascia from middle of 

 costa to anal angle, margins straight, broadest on costa and enclosing 

 a blackish median bar from costa reaching to near middle ; a pale 

 bluish line close beyond fascia, becoming yellowish-white on anal 

 angle, where it coalesces with a yellowish-white somewhat irregular 

 submarginal line ; branches of subcostal vein beyond fascia finely 

 whitish-ochreous, terminating in small spots on hindmargin ; 

 between these are more or less distinct fine blue- whitish lines : 

 cilia blackish, with a fine white basal line, tips grey-whitish, on 

 anal angle wholly yellowish-white. Hindwings with hindmargin 

 rounded ; yellowish- white ; a moderate transverse blackish discal 

 spot ; a broad blackish hindmarginal band, anterior edge sinuate, 

 attenuated to anal angle, containing a triangular yellowish-white 

 spot in its lower extremity ; cilia yellowish-white. 



Rockhampton and Duaringa, Queensland ; Grafton, New South 

 Wales ; in August, four specimens (Coll. Macleay). 



5. Epidesmia, Westw. 



Face smooth or with slightly projecting scales. Tongue developed. 

 Antennae in ^ uni[)ectinated, towards apex simple. Palpi long or 

 extremely long, porrected, rough-scaled, attenuated. Forewings 

 with vein 10 touching or anastomosing with 9, 11 anastomosing 

 with 10. Hindwings with veins 6 and 7 approximated at base. 



Presumably a development from DichroTnodes, or perhaps col- 

 laterally with it from an earlier form ; confined to Australia. The 

 species, though sometimes comparatively large, are slenderly built ; 

 ]iut I conjecture that the prominence of the apex of hind wing, 

 often a well-marked feature, is due to an exaggeration of the pro- 

 longed form of wing characteristic of the heavily built genera, and 

 jtoints back to an origin from these, 

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