1208 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



or less mixed and suffiisedly dotted with dark fuscous, towards 

 apex more or less wholly dark fuscous. Hindwings with hind- 

 margin rounded, waved, slightly sinuate above anal angle ; pale 

 greyish-ochreous, sprinkled with dark fuscous, especially towards 

 apex ; a slightly curved cloudy fuscous median line, marked with 

 a small darker spot above middle, containing a transverse linear 

 transparent mark ; cilia pale greyish-ochreous. Forewings beneath 

 with a large round cloudy blackish-fuscous blotch towards hind- 

 margin below middle. 



Melbourne, Victoria ; according to Walker also from Tasmania ; 

 one specimen. 



77. Mon. snierintharia, Feld. 



(Monoctenia smerintharia, Feld. pi. cxxiv. 18, 19.) 

 5. 74 mm. Head and palpi deep ferruginous, crown paler. 

 Thorax and abdomen grey irrorated with whitish. Wings formed 

 as in M. faler7iaria, but hindmargin crenate ; reddish-grey ; a 

 common obscurely pale dentate line running from apex of fore- 

 wings to I of inner margin of hindwings, anteriorly margined by 

 a, thick dark suffused shade, obsolete towards costa : cilia ferru- 

 ginous, with darker spots on veins. 



Locality uncertain ; one specimen (Austr. Mus. Coll.). 



78. Mon. falernaria, Gn. 



( Monoctenia faleriiaria, Gn. IX. 184 ; M. fraternaria, ib. pi. 

 VII. 3.) 



(J^. 56-82 mm. Head pale whitish-fuscous, face dark fuscous- 

 purplish, suffused with whitish-ochreous towards lower part. Palpi 

 fuscous-purplish. Antennae ochreous- whitish, pectinations ochreous. 

 Thorax and abdomen pale flesh-colour. Legs fuscous, femora more 

 purplish. Forewings elongate-triangular, hindmargin sinuate 

 beneath apex, thence strongly bowed, oblique, waved on upper 

 portion ; rosy-purplish-ochreous, densely and suffusedly irrorated 

 with pale greyish-ochreous, and strewn with blackish-grey scales ; 

 the absence of pale irroration forms an obscurely darker triangular 



