BY E. MEYRICK. 365 



fuscous, and with a dark grey entire bar above apex. Hindwings 

 over 1, apex round-pointed, termen hardly sinuate; light grey; a 

 whitish-ochreous subdorsal pencil of hairs; cilia whitish-grey. 



Gisborne and Stawell, Victoria, from October to December; 

 four specimens, and type seen. 



168. P. mesochra, Low. 

 {Gelechia mesochra, Low., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. 1894, 107.) 



(J9. 11-16 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, sides of crown dark 

 fuscous. Palpi whitish-ochreous, terminal joint more or less 

 dark fuscous towards apex, as long as second. Antennae dark 

 fuscous. Thorax dark fuscous, patagia whitish-ochreous. Ab- 

 domen whitish-ochreous mixed with gray. Legs dark fuscous 

 ringed with ochreous-whitish, hairs of posterior tibiae ochreous- 

 ^Yhitish. Forewings with costa gently arched, apex round- 

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

 whitish-ochreous, faintly yellowish-tinged; four or five fine oblique 

 dark fuscous marks on costa, usually very small, sometimes con- 

 nected or absorbed into a moderate streak extending from near 

 base to f ; a broad rather dark fuscous streak along dorsum and 

 termen to apex, upper edge irregular, more or less marked with 

 blackish, variably prominent at J, J, and near apex, and indented 

 between these : cilia fuscous, towards base sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous, on costa sharply whitish-yellowish. Hindwings some- 

 what over 1, apex round-pointed, termen slightly sinuate; grey, 

 darker posteriorly; cilia grey. 



Sydney and Bathurst, New South Wales; Melbourne and Gis- 

 borne. Victoria; Mount Lofty and Wirrabara, South Australia; 

 from August to November, fourteen specimens ; type seen. 

 Larva very pale whitish-grey -green, with twelve longitudinal 

 very irregular and partially interrupted dark reddish-purple lines 

 on each segment, anteriorly somewhat confluent; 5 and 6 wholly 

 velvety-black except a small transverse patch on posterior margin 

 of 6; head brownish-ochreous : feeds between joined leaves of 

 Eucalyptus sp., in June. 



