1204 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



(J^. 62-75 mm. Head fuscous, with a broad white fillet between 

 antennae. Palpi whitish-fuscous. Antennae whitish, pectinations 

 fuscous. Thorax fuscous, posteriorly more whitish fuscous. Abdo- 

 men whitish-fuscous. Legs whitish-fuscous spotted with dark 

 fuscous. Forewings rather elongate-triangular, hindmargin slightly 

 sinuate beneath apex, thence strongly bowed ; fuscous, strewn 

 with numerous small darker transverse strigulae, sometimes tinged 

 with reddish-brown ; costal edge sometimes very narrowly white ; 

 three or four small cloudy darker spots forming a curved series at 

 J ; a short transverse linear transparent whitish mark in disc, 

 margined with blackish ; an indistinct straight slender fuscous- 

 whitish streak from beyond middle of inner margin towards apex 

 but not quite reaching it, posteriorly obscurely margined with 

 darker and with a series of cloudy dark fuscous dots, sometimes 

 followed by a reddish-brown streak : cilia reddish-brown, terminal 

 third blackish. Hindwings with hindmargin waved, rounded ; 

 colour and cilia as in forewings ; a straight transverse streak as in 

 forewings, but running from middle of costa to middle of inner 

 margin. 



Sydney and Bathurst (2500 feet), New South Wales ; Warragul, 

 Victoria ; Mount Lofty, South Australia : four specimens. I 

 once possessed, but failed to rear, what I have been told was tbe 

 larva of this species ; a large 1 2-legged dull brown larva, feeding 

 on Leptosjyermum and Kunzea ; it was exceedingly sluggish in 

 habit. 



15. MONOCTENIA, Gn. 



Face with dense protuberant scales. Tongue developed. An- 

 tennae in (J unipectinated, towards apex simple. Palpi moderate, 

 subascending, second joint clothed with dense projecting scales, 

 terminal joints subovate. Thorax stout, densely hairy beneath. 

 Anterior tibiae in ^ with apical hook, all tarsi spinulose. Fore- 

 wings with vein 10 connected with 9 by bar. Hindwings with 

 veins 6 and 7 approximated at base. 



The genus is at present confined to Australia. The species are 

 very retired in habit in the imago state, and it is not unlikely 



