BY E. MEYRICK. 1195 



Doubtless an early type, having near relationship to Dichro- 

 modes on the one hand and the European genus Brephos on the 

 other. It Nvould appear to have been brought into close compe- 

 tition with the ancestors of Dichromodes, and to have been worsted, 

 surviving only in the mountains of Tasmania. Similarly BrepJios 

 has only maintained itself in Europe by becoming adapted to the 

 wintry climate of the earliest spring. 



Hindwings orange 63. Solaris. 



Hind wings dark fuscous, with a white blotch... 64, lunaris. 



63. Oen. Solaris, n.sp. 



(J. 23 mm. Head blackish, face and sides whitish. Palpi 

 whitish, mixed with blackish hairs. Antennae blackish. Thorax 

 and abdomen blackish, with a few white scales on segmental 

 margins. Legs dark fuscous, apex of joints whitish. Forewings 

 elongate-triangular, costa slightly sinuate, hindmargin rounded ; 

 ochreous-fuscous, densely and suffusedly irrorated with blackish- 

 fuscous ; several short longitudinal pale yellowish marks in disc 

 towards base; first line thick, cloudy, blackish-fuscous, from J of 

 costa to before middle of inner margin, somewhat curved ; an 

 obscure whitish dot in disc, suffusedly margined with darker; 

 second line whitish, becoming fuscous-tinged beneath, suffusedly 

 dark-margined, from | of costa to | of inner, margin, waved, 

 slightly outwards-curved, slightly sinuate near inner margin ; an 

 irregular fine subterminal line indicated by whitish scales : cilia 

 fuscous mixed with dark fuscous (imperfect). Hiudwings with 

 hindmargin rounded ; bright deep reddish-orange; some blackish 

 scales towards costa ; a narrow blackish band from apex along 

 hindmargin to anal angle, where it is extremely slender, thence 

 along inner margin to base where it is suffusedly dilated ; cilia 

 whitish-fuscous mixed with blackish. 



Mount Wellington (3500 feet), Tasmania, in December ; one 

 specimen. 



64. Oen. lunaris, n.sp. 



(J. 21-23 mm. Head blackish, with some yellow- whitish scales, 

 face yellow- whitish. Palpi whitish, mixed with blackish hairs. 



