BY E. MEYRICK. 1203- 



black. Antennae and thorax whitish. Abdomen whitish, some- 

 times purple-blackish on back. Legs white, speckled with black, 

 anterior pair blackish. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa gently 

 arched, hindmargin almost straight, oblique ; very pale whitish- 

 grey,, slightly ochreous-tinged, or whitish-ochreous ; sometimes a 

 black dot near inner margin at g ; a nearly straight strong black 

 line from beyond middle of costa to beyond middle of inner 

 margin : cilia blackish. Hindwings with hindmargin rounded ; 

 deep orange ; a purplish-black basal patch, outer edge irregular, 

 running from costa towards base to f of inner margin; a thick 

 black rather irregular streak from | of costa tofof inner margin; 

 a tolerably parallel row of small black spots midway between this 

 and hindmargin; cilia whitish. Undersurface pale whitish-grey; 

 forewings with disc orange, and a very large posterior black blotch, 

 containing towards its upper anterior angle two superposed cloudy 

 violet-bluish spots, each including anteriorly a white transverse 

 mark. 



9. 85 mm. Forewings with hindmargin sinuate, with small 

 fine scattered dark grey strigulae ; black line absent ; two cloudy 

 fuscous lines, first median, somewhat curved, second at f , nearly 

 straight. 



Melbourne, Victoria ; Mount Lofty, South Australia ; three 

 specimens. 



14:. Phallaria, Gn. 



Face with dense scales. Tongue developed. Antennae in $ 

 bipectinated to apex. Palpi moderate, subascending, second joint 

 clothed with dense projecting scales, terminal joint moderate, 

 cylindrical. Thorax stout, densely hairy beneath. Anterior 

 tibiae with small apical spine, all tarsi spinulose. Forewings with 

 vein 10 connected with 9 by bar. Hiud wings with veins 6 and 7 

 approximated at base. 



A development of Monoctenm. 



72. Phall. ophiuso/ria, Gn. 



(Phalla-na opJditsaria, Gn. IX, 186 ; Oenochroma qv^temaria, 

 HS. Exot. 541.) 



