BY E. MEYRICK. 1181 



line at I ; some white scales towards inner margin ; a darker 

 hindmarginal line ; cilia fuscous, terminal half fuscous-whitish. 



Perth and Albany, West Australia ; in November and 

 December; five specimens. Generally, but not always, the 

 contrast between the light median area and the dark basal and 

 hindmarginal areas is very conspicuous. 



46. Dichr. poecilotis, n.sp. 



(J^. 21-24 mm. Head pale reddish-ochreous on crown, with a 

 few dark fuscous and whitish scales, face whitish irrorated with 

 dark fuscous. Palpi 2J, dark fuscous, towards base white 

 beneath, extreme apex white. Antennae grey, pectinations 4. 

 Thorax grey, mixed with light ochreous, and irrorated with 

 whitish and a few blackish scales. Abdomen pale grey, sprinkled 

 with dark grey. Legs grey, femora and posterior tibiae sprinkled 

 with whitish. Forewings triangular, hindmargin rounded, waved ; 

 fuscous, towards costa and on basal area sprinkled with whitish ; 

 veins, except costal branches, marked with rather thick light 

 reddish-ochreous streaks, interrupted by lines ; a blackish mark 

 in disc near base ; a curved cloudy blackish transverse line near 

 beyond this ; lines slender, whitish ; first from \ of costa to % of 

 inner margin, posteriorly blackish-margined, acutely angulated 

 outwards in middle, sinuate inwards above middle ; second from 

 about § of costa to | of inner margin, posteriorly blackish- 

 margined, rather abruptly sinuate inwards above inner margin ; a 

 small transverse-oval blackish spot in disc above middle ; a fine 

 straight dark fuscous line near beyond second, interrupted by 

 streaks on veins ; subterminal formed by whitish irroration, 

 posteriorly hardly defined, anteriorly sharply margined by a thick 

 cloudy dark fuscous shade, deeply sinuate inwards above and 

 below middle ; a hindmarginal series of small blackish triangular 

 subconfluent spots : cilia fuscous, irrorated with whitish. Hind- 

 wings with hindmargin rounded ; fuscous ; a faint darker median 

 line ; cilia light fuscous, tips more whitish. 



Carnarvon and Geraldton, West Australia, in October and 

 November ; common. 



