BY E. MEYRICK. 135 



obli(|uely rounded ; rather dark bronzy-fuscous, mixed with 

 blackish, and strewn with linear whitish scales; a moderate 

 rather cloudy white spot tow^ards tornus, and sometimes one 

 towards costa posteriorly; a narrow shining bronze terminal 

 fascia: cilia shining bronze. Hindwings light ochreous-oranae; 

 apical half dark fuscous; margins of basal half sometimes suffused 

 with dark fuscous; cilia dark grey, with blackish basal line. 



York and Albany, West Australia, from October to December; 

 three specimens. 



41. Orthenches Meyr. 



Head smooth; ocelli present; tongue dev^eloped. Antennae 4, 

 in $ simple or pubescent, somewhat thickened at base, basal 

 joint with strong pecten. Labial palpi moderate or long, recurved, 

 with appressed scales, somewhat rough beneath throughout, 

 terminal joint as long as second or longer, acute. Maxillary palpi 

 filiform, curved, ascending. Posterior tibiae with appressed 

 scales above. Fore wings with 16 furcate, 2 almost from angle, 

 7 to apex or termen, 11 from before middle, secondary cell 

 defined. Hindwings I , elongate-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, termen 

 sometimes sinuate, cilia |-1; 2-7 remote, nearly parallel. 



A small New Zealand genus, represented in Australia as yet 

 by one species only, 



268. 0. epiphricta, n.sp. 



^9. 9-11 mm. Head whitish, sometimes slightly fuscous- 

 sprinkled. Palpi white, externally grey except apex of joints. 

 Antennae white ringed with fuscous. Thorax white sprinkled 

 with fuscous. Abdomen grey-whitish. Fore wings elongate, 

 rather narrow, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 straight, oblique; white, finely sprinkled and strigulated with 

 dark fuscous; five small dark fuscous spots on posterior half of 

 costa; stigmata cloudy, ill-marked, dark fuscous, plical directly 

 beneath and sometimes confluent with first discal: cilia whitish, 

 with thick blackish sometimes interrupted subbasal line, and 

 broad dark fuscous subapical shade. Hindwings pale whitish- 

 giey; cilia grey-whitish. 



Quorn, South Australia, in October; nine specimens. 



