BY E. MEYRICK. 359 



159. P. sisyraea, n.sp. 



(J. 14 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish, shoulders 

 sprinkled with fuscous. Palpi whitish, second joint irrorated 

 with blackish anteriorly and beneath apex, terminal joint irro- 

 rated with blackish, as long as second. Antennae whitish spotted 

 with dark fuscous. (Abdomen broken.) Legs ochreous-whitish, 

 anterior and middle tibise and tarsi banded with dark fuscous. 

 Forewings with costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen 

 extremely obliquely rounded; 2 and 3 stalked; ochreous-whitish, 

 irregularly sprinkled with fuscous and light ferruginous; five 

 elongate marks of dark fuscous irroration on costa, and one on 

 base of dorsum; stigmata blackish, plical very obliquely beyond 

 first discal, preceded and followed by some blackish scales on 

 fold, second discal followed by a short blackish dash, connected 

 with an upright blackish mark from tornus, a line of blackish 

 marks from costa beyond middle to apex; a moderately broad 

 light ferruginous patch along termen : cilia ochreous-whitish, 

 base and a median line mixed with dark fuscous. Hindwings 

 over 1, apex round-pointed, termen slightly sinuate; fuscous- 

 whitish, becoming more fuscous posteriorly ; basal |, except a 

 narrow median hyaline patch, clothed with modified blackish- 

 grey scales, with acute projections on veins reaching to middle; 

 cilia grey-whitish, with grey subbasal shade. 



Gisborne, Victoria; one specimen (Lyell). Characterised by 

 the peculiar hindwings, which, however, may probably not be 

 reproduced in the other sex. 



160. P. chenias, n.sp. 



^2- 16 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi whitish-ochreous, 

 second joint mixed with dark fuscous anteriorly and beneath apex, 

 terminal joint dark fuscous, as long as second. Antennae fuscous. 

 Thorax whitish-ochreous irrorated with dark fuscous. Abdomen 

 whitish-ochreous. Legs dark fuscous ringed with ochreous- 

 whitish. Forewings with costa gently arched, apex round- 

 pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; 2 and 3 stalked; 

 fuscous, sprinkled with whitish and sometimes with dark fuscous, 



