BY E. MEYRICK. 373 



Glen Innes (4500 feet), New South Wales; Gisborne, Victoria; 

 in October and December, five specimens, including type. The 

 remarkable contrast in colouring of the head and thorax in the 

 different sexes is a quite exceptional character. 



180. P. diplanetis, n.sp. 



^9. 17-19 mm. Head, antennae, and thorax dark slaty-fuscous. 

 Palpi dark fuscous sprinkled with whitish, extreme apex of 

 second and terminal joints white, terminal joint as long as second. 

 Abdomen fuscous. Legs dark fuscous ringed with white, hairs 

 of posterior tibiae whitish. Forewings with costa gently arched, 

 apex round-pointed, termen ver}^ obliquely rounded; 2 and 3 

 stalked; dark slaty -fuscous, with more or less distinct blackish 

 streaks along fold and in disc posteriorly; stigmata minute, white, 

 plical obliquely beyond first discal; a rounded yellow-ochreous 

 spot between second discal and tornus, edged anteriorly with 

 ochreous-whitish; a white dot on middle of costa, and a series 

 beneath costa posteriorly : cilia slacy-fuscous, basal half irrorated 

 with dark fuscous. Hindwings over 1, apex round-pointed, ter- 

 men not sinuate; fuscous, darker posteriorly, more thinly scaled 

 towards base; cilia pale fuscous. 



Blackheath (3500 feet), New South Wales; Warragul and 

 Gisborne, Victoria; in October and November; on trunks of 

 Eucalyptus^ four specimens. 



181. P. cephalota, n.sp. 



(J. 18 mm. Head ochreous-white. Palpi dark fuscous sprinkled 

 with white, terminal joint ochreous-white, as long as second. 

 Antennae dark fuscous. Thorax dark purplish-fuscous. Abdomen 

 fuscous. Legs dark fuscous ringed with ochreous-white. Fore- 

 wings with costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen very 

 obliquely rounded; 2 and 3 stalked; fuscous irrorated with dark 

 fuscous; stigmata obscure, elongate, dark fuscous, each followed 

 by a whitish-ochreous dot, plical obliquely beyond first discal; a 

 whitish-ochreous dot on dorsum at J, and one on middle of costa; 

 a small undefined spot of whitish-ochreous suffusion above tornus, 



