BY E. MEYRICK. 1189 



56. Dichr. ornata, Walk. 



(Fanagra ornata, Walk. 1004.) 



^$. 20-21 mm. Head and thorax dark ashy -fuscous. Palpi 

 2^, dark fuscous, upper edge sprinkled with whitish. Antennae 

 grey, pectinations 6. Abdomen whitish-grey, irrorated with dark 

 grey. Legs dark fuscous, femora sprinkled with whitish. Fore- 

 wings triangular, hindmargin bowed ; fuscous, finely irrorated 

 with whitish and sprinkled with dark fuscous ; a hardly curved 

 series of four blackish dots from | of costa to I of inner margin : 

 an obscure dark fuscous dot in disc above middle ; second line 

 hardly perceptibly paler, from ^ of costa to I of inner margin, 

 nearly straight, gently sinuate outwards below costa and in 

 middle, anteriorly edged with a series of blackish dots or some- 

 times with a thick anteriorly suffused dark fuscous shade ; a faint 

 paler subdentate subterminal line, very obscurely edged with 

 darker anteriorly ; an interrupted black hindmarginal line : cilia 

 fuscous, sprinkled with whitish. Hindwings with hindmargin 

 rounded ; fuscous ; a faint paler anteriorly darker-edged sinuate 

 line beyond middle, more distinct towards inner margin ; a dark 

 fuscous hindmarginal line ; cilia fuscous, sprinkled with whitish. 



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

 September to November, and in March, common. 



57. Dichr. isch7iota, n.sp. 



9. 18-1.9 mm. Head and thorax fuscous, densely irrorated 

 with whitish. Palpi 3, ochreous-fuscous, towards base white 

 beneath, upper edge sprinkled with white, extreme apex white. 

 Antennae grey spotted with whitish. Abdomen whitish sprinkled 

 with dark fuscous. Legs fuscous sprinkled with whitish. Fore- 

 wings rather elongate-triangular, hindmargin bowed ; fuscous, 

 densely irrorated with whitish and less densely with dark fuscous ; 

 lines very obscurely whitish ; first from before middle of costa to 

 before middle of inner margin, sharply angulated outwards beneath 

 costa, posteriorly more or less distinctly edged with dark fuscous ; 

 second from 5 of costa to I of inner margin, slightly sinuate 



