668 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPrERA, IV., 



Type in Coll. Lyell. 



Tasm.: Hobart, in February; three specimens. 



Gen. 6. P y l a r g e. 

 Pylarge H. Sch.; Meyr., Brit. Lep. p.244. 



Face smooth. Palpi moderate, subascending. Antennee in $ 

 ciliated with fascicles. Thorax smooth beneath. Femora smooth. 

 Posterior tibiae in $ not dilated, with terminal spurs only, in 9 

 with two pairs of spurs. Forewings with 10 out of 9, 11 con- 

 nected or anastomosing with 9. Hindwings with 6 and T 

 separate or stalked. 



Type 



A small genus containing one European species. 



1. Thorax dark grey 58. episcia. 



Thorax whitish 2. 



2. Forewings with blackish dots on eosta 59. erebospila. 



Forewings without blackish costal dots 3. 



3. Hindwings with termen almost straight 60. proxima. 



Hindwings with termen rounded 4. 



4. Forewings with discal dot large, postmedian line sub- 



sinuate 63. megalocentra^ 



Forewings with discal dot minute, lines straight 5. 



5. Antennas of J^ with ciliations 2^ 62. orfhoscia. 



Antennse of <^ with ciliations 1^ 61. loxosema. 



58. Pylarge episcia. 

 Acidalia episcia Meyr., Proc.Linn.Soc.N. S.Wales, 1887, p.863.. 

 Type in Coll. Meyrick. 

 N.S.W.: Broken Hill— W. A.: Carnarvon. 



59. Pylarge erebospila. 

 Pylarge erehos^nla Low., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust. 1902, p. 250. 



(J. Head, face, thorax, and abdomen ochreous-whitish. Antennae 

 ochreous-whitish, towards base annulated with blackish. Fore- 

 wings elongate-triangular, costa straight almost to apex; ochreous- 

 whitish; three faintly paler lines beyond middle; discal dot, dots 

 on costa, on costal portions of first and third lines, and on termen 



