BY E. MEYRICK. 1185 



margin bowed ; fuscous, suffusedly irrorated with whitish-fuscous 

 and coarsely sprinkled with dark fuscous ; lines obscurely paler ; 

 first from J of costa to I of inner margin, posteriorly margined 

 with dark fuscous or sometimes strongly with blackish, hardly 

 curved ; second from beyond f of costa to f of inner margin, 

 anteriorly margined with dark fuscous or sometimes strongly with 

 blackish, slightly irregular, slightly curved outwards on upj)er 

 half and inwards on lower half ; a small transverse dark fuscous 

 sometimes paler-centred spot in disc above middle ; subterminal 

 hardly paler, subdentate, anteriorly suflfusedly margined with 

 darker fuscous ; a hindmarginal row of triangular subconnected 

 black dots : cilia pale whitish-fuscous, with a cloudy fuscous line. 

 Hindwings with hindmargin rounded ; fuscous ; a faint darker 

 discal dot ; a faint curved paler line at f ; an interrupted dark 

 fuscous hindmarginal line ; cilia as in fore wings. 



9. 23-25 mm. Differs from ^ as follows : forewings irrorated 

 with whitish ; lines broadly margined with blackish on discal side, 

 except towards costa ; discal spot very small or dot-like ; second 

 line from | of costa, rather sharply angulated in middle, sinuate 

 inwards above middle, and more strongly curved and somewhat 

 bent inwards on lower half; cilia light fuscous irrorated with 

 whitish. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; from August to October, and in 

 March and April, common. The variability in the intensity of 

 marking, and the sexual differences make this at first sight rather 

 a perplexing species. 



51. Dichr. eiiscia, n.sp. 



(J. 25 ram. Head and thorax dark fuscous, finely sprinkled 

 with whitish. Palpi 3, dark fuscous, upper edge sprinkled with 

 whitish. Antennae grey, pectinations 3. Abdomen fuscous- whitish 

 irrorated with dark fuscous. Legs dark fuscous, femora and 

 posterior tibise sprinkled with whitish. Forewings triangular,, 

 hindmargin bowed ; fuscous, densely irrorated with whitish and 

 sprinkled with dark fuscous ; a blackish dot on costa at I, a second 

 in disc at g, and a third above inner margin at J ; a small blackish 



