450 DESCEIPTIONS OF AUSTEALIAN MICEO-LEPIDOPTEEA, 



liindmargin rather oblique, very slightly sinuate ; rosy-ochreous 

 or yellowish-carmine-pink, with a suffused yellow blotch above 

 anal angle, indistinctly produced broadly along inner margin to 

 before middle, very ill- defined ; between this blotch and base the 

 whole groundcolour is sometimes suffused with purple-fuscous, 

 extending along costa to apex, and obscurely mixed with whitish 

 towards disc ; an ill-defined reddish-fuscous dot in disc before 

 middle, a second in disc beyond middle, and a third perpendicu- 

 larly below first on fold ; between first and second is a longitudinal 

 cloudy whitish streak , a faint transverse whitish line following " 

 posterior margin of yellow blotch : cilia whitish-yellow, beneath 

 anal angle carmine-tinged, costal cilia pale carmine. Hindwings 

 with hindmargin distinctly sinuate ; whitish-yellow, cilia whitish- 

 yellow. 



This and the two following species differ from the rest in the 

 less oblique hindmargin of the f orewings ; this species is distinctly 

 characterised by the yellow hindwings, and rosy forewings with 

 yellow anal blotch and variable purplish suffusion anteriorly. 



Taken occasionally at Melbourne and Sydney, in March ; 

 "Walker's specimens are said to be from Brisbane. 



19. JEochr. callianassa, n. sp. 



Major, alis ant. niveis, costa anguste ferruginea, dorso, vena 

 subcostal! trirami, puncto disci, viltaque marginis postici in 

 ciliis flavis ; post, niveis, apicem versus griseis. 



cJ . 2G mm. Head snow-white. Palpi white, externally and in 

 front somewhat suffused with brownish-rosy. Antennae grey, 

 basal joint white with a fine ferruginous line above. Thorax 

 white, with a pale yellow spot on middle of anterior margin, and 

 shoulder- flaps pale yellow, with a bright ferrugijious spot on each 

 shoulder. Abdomen white. Anterior legs ferruginous ; middle 

 legs whitish, suffused with pale ferruginous ; posterior legs white. 

 Porewings moderate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, hind- 



