1188 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



55. Dichr. estigmaria, Walk. 



(Panagra estigmaria, Walk. 1001 ; P. costinotafa, ib. 1001 , 

 Acidalia schistacearia, ib. 1609.) 



^2' 22-24 mm. Head and thorax ^reyish-ochreous irrorated 

 with whitish. Palpi 2J-, brownish-ochreous, upper edge sprinkled 

 with white, extreme tip white. Antennae light ochreous spotted 

 with whitish, pectinations 7. Abdomen whitish-ochreous sprinkled 

 with dark fuscous. Legs light brownish-ochreous, posterior tibiae 

 in (J dilated, enclosing tuft of hair of hairs in groove, posterior 

 tarsi in ^ less than half tibiae. Forewings triangular, hindmargin 

 bowed ; light brownish-ochreous, greyish-ochreous, or pale 

 fuscous, finely irrorated with ochreous - whitish ; lines hardly 

 perceptibly paler ; first from before middle of costa to before 

 middle of inner margin, angulated immediately beneath costa, 

 where it is margined posteriorly by one or two blackish dots, and 

 sinuate inwards in middle and above inner margin, with a blackish 

 dot on posterior margin in each sinuation ; a fuscous dot ia disc 

 above middle ; second line from J of costa to before f of inner 

 margin, hardly curved, sinuate inwards above and below middle, 

 with a slight bidentate projection outwards in middle, anteriorly 

 margined with indistinct sometimes subconnected blackish dots, 

 sometimes with a small blackish or partly ferruginous spot on 

 median projection ; subterminal hardly perceptibly paler, an- 

 teriorly margined by a more or less faint obscure interrupted 

 darker shade, sometimes forming a small cloudy dark fuscous spot 

 on costa ; a widely interrupted black hindmarginal line or series 

 of triangular dots : cilia light fuscous sprinkled with yellow- 

 whitish, terminal half fuscous-whitish. Hindwings with hind- 

 margin rounded ; pale fuscous, sometimes ochreous-tinged ; cilia 

 whitish-fuscous, tips paler. 



Sydney and Blackheath (3500 feet), New South Wales ; from 

 October to December, and in February, common. The abbrevi- 

 ated posterior tarsi of the ^ are a notable special characteristic. 



