1206 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



costa before apex to f of inner margin : cilia fuscous-reddish. 

 Hindwings with hindmargin rounded ; dull purplish-rosy, becoming 

 light fuscous towards anal angle ; second and third lines as in 

 forewings, but only visible on dorsal half ; cilia rosy, becoming 

 fuscous-red on lower half of hindmargin. 



West Australia ; two specimens in the British Museum collec- 

 tion, from which the above diagnosis is drawn. 



74. Mon. vinaria, Gn. 



{Oenochroma vinaria, Gn. IX. 185, pi. vii. 2 ; Balliace vetus- 

 taria, Walk. 290.) 



(J9. 45-52 mm. Head pale brownish-ochreous, face suffused 

 with purplish - rosy. Palpi, thorax, and abdomen light pur- 

 plish-rosy. Antennae rosy, towards apex more whitish, pec- 

 tinations pale ochreous. Legs light purplish-rosy, apex of 

 joints dark grey. Forewings elongate-triangular, apex acute, 

 subfalcate, hindmargin suddenly sinuate beneath apex, thence 

 bowed, oblique ; pale ochreous, more or less wholly suffused with 

 light purplish-rosy, posteriorly with a few faint cloudy grey 

 strigulae ; a nearly straight cloudy grey line from J of costa to 

 before ^ of inner margin, preceded by an indistinct pale yellowish 

 suffusion ; a small cloudy roundish dark grey discal spot, containing 

 a fine transverse linear transparent mark ; a nearly straight cloudy 

 pale yellowish line from costa before apex to 5 of inner margin, 

 anteriorly partially margined with bright ferruginous preceded 

 suffusedly by dark grey ; a hindmarginal ferruginous-orange line, 

 becoming blackish near apex : cilia deep ferruginous-brown. 

 Hindwings with hindmargin almost straight, slightly waved ; 

 colour and cilia as in forewings ; a straight dark purplish-fuscous 

 transverse streak from middle of costa to middle of inner margin, 

 becoming bifurcate towards costa, on lower | posteriorly ferrugin- 

 ous and followed by an ochreous-yellow suffusion. Forewings 

 beneath with a large round cloudy deep purple-fuscous blotch near 

 inner margin before anal angle. 



Townsville, Queensland ; Sydney, New South Wales ; Mount 

 Lofty, South Australia ; four specimens. Bred by Mr. G. H. 



