650 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIl^OPTERA, IV., 



(J posterior pair minute, tarsi slender. ^J; in 9 posterior tibia> 

 without middle spurs. Forewings with eosta slightly arched, 

 apex rounded, termen rounded, oblique; whitish, faintly tinged 

 with reddish orange and irrorated with fuscous and dark fuscous, 

 some scales showing dull metallic reflections; costa fuscous 

 except shortly before apex: an outwardly curved, somewhat 

 dentate, dark fuscous, basal line from costa at i to inner margin 

 at J: a reddish-orange median line irrorated with dark fuscous, 

 especially towards costa: followed by a circular dark fuscous 

 discal spot; postmedian line slightly outwardly curved, somewhat 

 dentate, from costa at § to inner margin at J: followed by two 

 dark fuscous blotches in disc representing subterminal: sub- 

 marginal represented by a grey suffusion; cilia with basal half 

 reddish-ochreous-whitish barred with dark fuscous, terminal half 

 grey. Hindwings with termen rounded; colour and markings 

 as forewings. 



A variable species as regards the degree of fuscous irroration. 



Type ill Coll. Turner. 



N.Q.: Towns ville; four specimens in April, May, and July; 

 my three finest examples of this delicate and beautiful species I 

 owe to Mr. F. P. Dodd — Q.: Brisbane, in December: one female 

 specimen with the orange markings mostly obsolete. 



17. EOIS ALBICOSTATA. 



Acidalia albicosfata Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat. xxiii. p. 7 79; Meyr., 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1887, p.844. 



Type in British Museum. 



Q.: Duaringa, Brisbane, Stradbroke Island, Toowoomba, Stan- 

 thorpe — X. S.W.: Glen Innes, Sydney, Bathurst, Mt. Kosciusko 

 — Tasm.: Launceston, Deloraine. Also from Xew Guinea 

 (Meyrick). 



18. EoiS HALMAEA. 



Acidalia hahnaea Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, 1887, p.846. 



This species shows considerable variability, and I at one time 



divided it into two. The termen of forewings is sometimes 



