328 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LlitlbOPTEKA, V]., 



on each side of middle. Palpi i^; dark fuscous. Antennas grey; 

 pectinations of (J 3 or 4. Thorax and abdomen whitish-ochreous 

 with some fuscous scales. Legs whitish-ochreous speckled with 

 fuscous. Forewings narrow-elongate-triangular, costa very 

 slightly arched, apex rounded, termen oblique, strongly sinuate; 

 10 absent, 11 free but sometimes running very close to 9 (6(J, 

 29): whitish-ochreous more ov less suffused and irrorated with 

 fuscous; markings dark fuscous: antemedian line usually obscure, 

 from I costa to J dorsum, angled beneath costa; median line 

 rarely present; an oblong, fuscous, subcostal spot beyond middle; 

 postmedian line from | costa to ^ dorsum, tinely dentate, angled 

 beneath costa, sometimes obscure, edged posteriorly by a whitish 

 line; subterminal line irregularly dentate, with a subcostal pos- 

 terior projection, edged anteriorly by a whitish line, and pre- 

 ceded by several dark fuscous spots towards costa; cilia whitish- 

 ochreous barred with dark fuscous. Hindwings with termen 

 rounded, wavy; pale grey; with an incomplete, fine, darker, post- 

 median line; cilia as forewings. Underside of hindwings whitish 

 ochreous irrorated with fuscous; a short, wide, dentate, white 

 line from tornus preceded by a dark fuscous suffusion. 



The peculiar wing-shape might be regarded as a justification 

 of the separation of this species from Ectropis, were it not for 

 the intermediate form in the next species. 



N.Q.: Kuranda, near Cairns; Evelyn Scrub, near Herberton. 

 — Q.: Duaringa, Gayndah, Toowoomba, Killarney. 



29. EcTKopis MOCHLOSifiMA, n.sp. 

 /xo)(Aotr>//xo>j, marked with u bar. 

 (J. 27-30 mm. Head and palpi brownish. Antenn?e fuscous- 

 whitish; pectinations in ^ 2^. Thorax brownish. Abdomen 

 brownish, with a paler median streak and several pairs of fuscous 

 dots on dorsum. Legs whitish-ochreous irrorated and tarsi 

 annulated with fuscous. Forewings triangular, costa nearly 

 straight, apex rounded, termen slightly excavated between veins 

 3 and 6; 10 and 11 arising from cell by a common stalk, not 

 anastomosing (2(J); whitish irrorated with fuscous, and with 

 patchy brownish suffusion; lines fuscous, indistinct and inter- 



