1180 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



half ; a moderately large narrow transverse blackish spot in disc 

 above middle ; subterminal whitish, anteriorly sufFusedly margined 

 with dark fuscous, rather irregular ; a waved blackish hindmarginal 

 line. Hindwings fuscous. 



Said to be from Sydney, New South Wales. The above diagnosis 

 is drawn from incomplete notes taken from the British Museum 

 specimen, which is the only one I have seen ; it appears to be a 

 good species, allied to D. exxtlanata. 



45. Dichr. ortliotis, n.sp. 



(J§. 21-25 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous, sprinkled with 

 whitish, blackish, and ferruginous scales. Palpi about 3, dark 

 fuscous, towards base white beneath, upper edge sprinkled with 

 whitish. Antennae grey, pectinations 5. Abdomen whitish-grey, 

 suffusedly irrorated with dark grey. Legs blackish, apex of 

 joints white, femora and posterior tibiae irrorated with whitish. 

 Forewings triangular, hindmargin bowed ; fuscous ; basal area 

 more or less mixed with ferruginous, and coarsely irrorated with 

 black ; first line straight, whitish, from 3 of costa to % of inner 

 margin, anteriorly margined with deep ferruginous, posteriorly 

 with three or four black dots ; median area densely irrorated with 

 whitish, less strongly on costa and inner margin, sometimes 

 partially irrorated with black on veins ; a moderate transverse- 

 oblong fuscous black-margined spot in disc above middle ; second 

 line almost straight, whitish, from before \ of costa to \ of inner 

 margin, dilated on costa, anteriorly margined with black tri- 

 angular dots, posteriorly with a ferruginous line ; hindmarginal 

 area irrorated with black, sometimes with traces of an irregular 

 twice deeply sinuate whitish subterminal line, and a whitish 

 irroration along hindmargin ; veins near hindmargin sometimes 

 marked with light ferruginous ; a waved blackish hindmarginal 

 line : cilia fuscous, irrorated with blackish and whitish, terminal 

 half fuscous-whitish obscurely barred with fuscous. Hindwings 

 with hindmargin rounded ; fuscous ; a faint paler slightly curved 



