BY E. MEYRICK. 141 



second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Posterior 

 tibi?e clothed with long hairs above. Fore wings with 16 furcate, 

 upper fork little marked, 2 from |, 3 from angle, 7 and 8 very 

 long-stalked, 7 to costa, 9 and 10 from near 8, 11 from middle^ 

 secondary cell indicated. Hind wings 1, rounded-trapezoidal^ 

 cilia 4; 2 widely remote, 3 and 4 connate, 5 somewhat approxi- 

 mated, 6 and 7 short-stalked. 



Apparently related to the European genus Cerosfonia. 



276. C. dimorpha, n sp. 



(J^. 17-20 mm. Head ochreous-white. Palpi white, second 

 joint with a brownish-ochreous median band, posterior edge of 

 terminal joint dark fuscous. Antennae dark fuscous spotted with 

 white. Thorax pale ochreous, centrally more or less suffused 

 with white. Abdomen whitish. Forewings elongate, costa 

 moderately arched, apex acute, termen faintly sinuate, extremely 

 oblique; yellow-ochreous, along costa, dorsum, and termen, or 

 sometimes wholly suffused with rather dark fuscous irrorated 

 witli white; usually a clear white median longitudinal streak 

 from base to apex, but sometimes this is suffusedly mixed with 

 fuscous : cilia fuscous sprinkled with whitish, at apex usually 

 with a slender whitish bar. Hindwings grey-whitish, becoming 

 light grey posteriorly; cilia white, at apex greyish. 



Sydney, New South Wales; Melbourne, Victoria; in February 

 and March, amongst scrub, apparently very local but plentiful 

 where it occurs; twenty specimens. 



47. Trachycentra Meyr. 



Head with loosely appressed scales; tongue rudimentary or 

 absent. Antennae i-|, in ^ simple, basal joint moderate, without 

 pecten. Labial palpi long, curved, ascending, second joint with 

 large rough spreading tuft of projecting scales towards apex 

 beneath, terminal joint as long as second, with appressed scales, 

 laterally compressed, pointed. Maxillary palpi short, drooping. 

 Anterior tibiae very short, tarsi dilated with rough projecting 

 scales; posterior tibiae and tarsi with rough projecting scales 



