BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER. 83 



oval black ring, which represents the orbicular; reniform ante- 

 riorly brownish, posteriorly white, incompletely outlined with 

 black, and connected with costa by a white spot; claviform repre- 

 sented by a short thick black streak; a fine dentate black line 

 near base; a second outwardly curved dentate line before orbicu- 

 lar; a fine dentate line from costa at |, first outwardly then 

 inwardly curved to inner margin at |; a fine black terminal line: 

 cilia fuscous mixed with whitish. Hindmargin with termen 

 rounded, wav3^;dark fuscous; toward base whitish; with a fuscous 

 crescentic mark at end of cell, and a dark curved median line; 

 cilia fuscous mixed with whitish. 



Gisborne, Vic; one specimen, in January, taken by Mr. G. 

 Lyell. 



EUPLEXIA POLYCMETA, n.Sp. 



(J. 36 mm. Head and palpi grey, irrorated with black. 

 Antennae dark fuscous; in male shortly pectinate (1), near apex 

 serrate. Thorax dark fuscous, with a strong bifid posterior crest. 

 Abdomen grey ; crests dark fuscous. Legs whitish, pinkish- 

 tinged, irrorated with dark fuscous. Forewings rather broadly 

 triangular, costa nearly straight, apex round-pointed, termen 

 crenate, well rounded, slightly oblique; grey, with whitish and 

 brownish irrorations and black lines; two black lines' from costa 

 near base to median vein; two linos from costa at J to inner 

 margin at J; disc internal to this densely irrorated with whitish; 

 orbicular and reniform whitish-grey, slenderl}'' outlined with* 

 black, and containing each a darker grey circle; a dentate line, 

 very fine except on costa, from costa at J to middle of inner 

 margin, passing between orbicular and reniform; two parallel 

 dentate lines describing a sigmoid curve from costa at § to inner 

 margin at f ; this is followed near inner margin by a crescentic 

 blackish shade, and above this by a narrow whitish irro ration; 

 inner marginal portion of mid-disc and a broad submarginal band 

 suffused with brownish; a series of black intervenal black streaks 

 cross this band to termen; a whitish irroration at tornus; a fine 

 black terminal line : cilia fuscous, irrorated with whitish. Hind- 



