BY E. MEYRICK. 357 



156. P. englypta^ n.sp. 



(J. 15 mm. Head fuscous, mixed with whitish on crown. 

 Palpi whitish, sprinkled with fuscous, terminal joint shorter than 

 second. Antennae fuscous. Thorax fuscous sprinkled with 

 whitish. (Abdomen broken.) Legs dark fuscous ringed with 

 white. Forewings with costa moderately arched, apex round- 

 pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; 2 and 3 stalked; pale 

 greyish-ochreous, irrorated with dark brown and sprinkled with 

 white; four dark fuscous spots on fold, first two traversed by a 

 blackish plical line, second and third connected by a white mark, 

 fourth tornal ; two dark blotches in disc before and beyond 

 middle, margined above with irregular white suffusion; an angu- 

 lated series of undefined dark fuscous marks beneath posterior 

 third of costa and along termen : cilia whitish-fuscous, basal half 

 irregularly barred with white and dark fuscous. Hindwings 

 over 1, apex round-pointed, termen not sinuate; whitish-fuscous, 

 more whitish and thinly scaled anteriorly; cilia whitish-fuscous. 

 Gisborne, Victoria, in February; one specimen (Lyell). 



157. P. aversella, Walk. 

 {Gelechia aversella, Walk., Tin. 649.) 



(J9. 12-16 mm. Head white or whitish, sometimes slightly 

 fuscous-sprinkled. Palpi dark fuscous mixed with whitish, apex 

 of second joint white, terminal joint somewhat shorter than 

 second. Antennj^ fuscous. Thorax whitish, more or less irro- 

 rated with fuscous, with blackish subdorsal lines. Abdomen 

 whitish-ochreous. Legs white, banded with brownish or dark 

 fuscous irroration. Forewings with costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded; 2 and 3 stalked; fuscous, 

 irregularly sprinkled with white and dark fuscous, costal half 

 much more mixed "with white; small blackish spots on base of 

 costa and dorsum; two very oblique parallel series of ill-defined 

 blackish marks from costa at \ and before middle to termen, and 

 a third, more connected, along fold; sometimes some indistinct 

 ochreous or reddish-ochreous marks placed amongst these, especi- 



