BY E. MEYRICK. 53 



apex, tarsi mostly suffused with whitish. Forewings elongate- 

 lanceolate; white; markings ochreous-brown, with a few dark 

 fuscous scales on margins; a suffused streak along basal fourth of 

 costa; a small subdorsal spot towards base; a slightl}^ oblique 

 transverse spot from dorsum before middle, reaching half across 

 wing; an angulated median fascia; two wedge-shaped marks from 

 costa beyond this, and a suffused spot on tornus; an apical spot, 

 including a white dot anteriorly and a black apical dot : cilia 

 brownish suJBFusedly barred with white, round apex with a dark 

 fuscous median line. Hindwings rather dark grey; cilia light 

 ochreous-grey. 



Mount Wellington, Tasmania, at 3000 feet, in December; one 

 specimen. 



3. Epicephala Meyr. 



Vein 8 of forewings is present (in original description errone- 

 ousl}^ stated to be absent); posterior tibite bristly above. The 

 latter character distinguishes the genus from Ornix, which also 

 generally has 6 and 7 of forewings stalked. 



5. E. colymhetella Meyr. 



{Epicephala colyiiihef'illa Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 1880, 169.) 



Brisbane, Queensland; Sj^dney, New South Wales; from Sep- 

 tember to January. Larva in seed-capsules of (?). 



6. E. trigonophora Turn. 



{Ornix tj'igonophor a Turn., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. 1900, 21). 

 Mount Tambourine, Queensland, in November. 



7. E. aci'obaphes Turn. 



(Ornix acrobaphes Turn., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. 1900, 22.) 

 Brisbane, Queensland, in January. Not known to me. 



8. E. austr alls, Turn. 



{Ornix australis Turn., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. 1896, 2.) 

 Brisbane, Queensland, from SeptemV)er to November. 



