BY THOMAS P. LUCAS. 155 



line from | costa arches toward hindmargin, and below median 

 vein is angled as a fine line to a conspicuous blotch on | inner 

 margin ; a hindmarginal band of interrupted dots and blotches is 

 diffused into two thin lines on inner half of wing : cilia grey. 

 Hindwings as forewings, hindmargin sharply angled below apex 

 and before middle ; a row of dots along inner border ; a second 

 row parallel and along submedian ; a wide V rests near costa at ^ 

 and touches costa at f , apex being produced along median vein ; 

 between this and anal angle a conspicuous angular blotch, and 

 beyond it toward hindmargin an arrow-head line, subtending a 

 crenate black hindmarginal line ; cilia as in forewings. 



Geraldton (Messrs. Meek and Barnard). 



Conspicuous by its hieroglyph on hindwings; allied to E. stoUda, 

 Butler. 



Group PYRALIDIDyE, Family EPIPASCHIAD^. 

 StERICTA iERUGINOSA, Sp.nOV. 



9. 23 mm. Head, palpi and thorax coppery-green freely dotted 

 with grey and greenish-black, thorax anteriorly tinted with copper- 

 red. Antennae greenish-fuscous. Abdomen fuscous-grey, segments 

 divided by copper-fuscous dorsal lines which in middle segments 

 become broken into a central dot and suffusion on either side. 

 Forewings oblong-obovate, costa nearly straight, apical half gently 

 rounded, apex scarcely pointed, hindmargin gently rounded, bright 

 copper-green freely marbled and irrorated with lighter and dark 

 greens and shades of fuscous, and containing a large triangular 

 patch from a base i to anal angle of inner margin to an apex at § 

 costa of copper-red freely marbled with dark green and fuscous, 

 veins lighter green ; a black-green dot near base, and continuous 

 with a line of black-green dots more or less suffused, along median 

 vein to J, thence as a shading more or less distinct along median 

 to hindmargin ; a black-green dot at ^ costa reaching but scarcely 

 touching median ; a black-green line from ^ costa to J inner 

 margin, twice deeply dentated outward in costal half ; a black- 

 green band bordering inner margin to J, thence bending at an 



