1196 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



Antennae blackish. Thorax blackish, patagia and posterior margin 

 sprinkled with pale ferruginous. Abdomen blackish, segmental 

 margins with some white scales. Legs dark fuscous. Forewings 

 elongate-triangular, costa slightly sinuate, hindmargin rounded ; 

 dark fuscous mixed with blackish, and sprinkled with pale fer- 

 ruginous ; lines obscure, formed by a whitish irroration ; first 

 from ^ of costa to | of inner margin, posteriorly suffusedly dark- 

 margined, moderately curved ; second from § of costa to | of 

 inner margin, anteriorly suffusedly dark-margined, rather irregu- 

 lar, somewhat sinuate outwards in middle and inwards above 

 inner margin ; subterminal irregular, preceded by a darker suffu- 

 sion : cilia dark fuscous, with indistinct bars formed by a whitish 

 irroration. Hindwings with hindmargin rounded ; rather dark 

 fuscous : a large cloudy white somewhat trapezoidal blotch occupy- 

 ing whole of disc ; cilia rather dark fuscous ; tips whitish. 



Mount Wellington (4100 feet), Tasmania ; common, flying 

 freely over the rocky ground on the extreme summit, in December. 



S.ASPILATES, Tr. 



Face smooth. Tongue developed. Antennae in ^ bipectinated 

 throughout. Palpi moderate, porrected, shortly rough-scaled or 

 with rather appressed scales. Thorax sometimes hairy beneath. 

 Forewings with vein 10 anastomosing or connected by bar with 

 9 or separate. Hindwings with veins 6 and 7 stalked or approxi- 

 mated at base. 



The species referred by Lederer to this genus are heterogeneous 

 in character, some of them not even belonging to this family ; I 

 have restricted the genus to those whose structure is as above. 

 It then consists only of some half dozen European and Asiatic 

 species, representing perhaps the fragments of a formerly more 

 numerous group, 



65. Asp. chordota, n.sp. 



(J. 32 mm. Head dark fuscous. Palpi white, externally dark 

 fuscous except on basal joint. Antennae white. Thorax hairy 

 beneath, dark fuscous, anterior margin, and inner margin of 



