BY E. MEYRICK. HI 



basal line; and indications of a grey median sliade sometimes 

 reduced to three patches. Hind wings gre}'-, sometimes darker 

 posteriorly; a white streak from disc at |^ to tornus, and indistinct 

 traces of a second streak be3^ond this; cilia whitish, with dark 

 fuscous basal and fuscous median shades. 



Mount Kosciusko (5500 feet), New South Wales; Deloraine 

 and Hobart, Tasmania; from November to January, twenty 

 specimens. 



36. SiMAETHis Leach. 



206. S. bamli's Feld. 



{Simaethis basalis Feld., Reis. Nov. pi. cxxxviii., 19; *S'. chiono- 

 clesma Low., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. 1896, 167.) 



Rockhampton and Brisbane, Queensland, in December and 

 January; Aru; Amboina. Varies considerably in presence or 

 absence of orange suffusion in hindwings and on terminal area 

 of forewings. 



207. >S'. limonias, n.sp. 



(J. 14: 15 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-orange, thorax with 

 a central transverse dark fuscous band. Palpi orange, second 

 and terminal joints with basal and subapical dark fuscous rings. 

 Antennse white ringed with black. Abdomen dark fuscous mixed 

 with orange, anal tuft orange. Posterior legs orange banded 

 with black, basal joint of tarsi rough-scaled above, third joint 

 snow-white above. Forewings triangular, costa gently arched, 

 apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, rather oblique, sinuate 

 above tornus; blackish-fuscous, markings ochreous-orange; two 

 straight fasciae near base; first line broad, straight, from a whitish 

 dot on costa at ^ to |- of dorsum, closely followed by a nari-ow 

 rather irregular line; a transverse-oval discal spot beyond middle; 

 second line moderate, rather irregular, from a whitish dot on costa 

 at I to f of dorsum, curved outwards round discal spot, not 

 touching it, with a short dentation outwards below middle, 

 separated by a fine line of groundcolour from a broader uneven 

 streak following it; terminal area more or less irrorated with 

 ochreous-orange : cilia grey, with a blackish basal line. Hind- 



