470 DESCEIPTIONS OF AUSTEALIAJf MICBO-LEPIDOPTEEA, 



costal streak to inner margin beyond middle ; a small cloudy 

 fuscous-purple spot on costa beyond middle, whence proceeds a 

 cloudy, strongly outwards-curved, somewhat dentate purplish 

 line to anal angle ; a small flattened-triangular fuscous-purple 

 spot on costa at f , almost confluent with this line : cilia on upper 

 half of hindmargin grey- whitish suffused with pale carmine, and 

 with a broad suffused fuscous-purple basal line, on lower half 

 grey- whitish. Hindwings elongate, hindmargin slightly sinuate ; 

 ochreous- whitish, in male faintly, in female more strongly suffused 

 with pale grey towards hindmargin, apex more ochreous-tinged ; 

 cilia ochreous-whitish, with a faint grey spot at apex, sometimes 

 with a faint grey line. 



Slightly narrower- winged than the preceding, much paler and 

 more clay-coloured, with duller markings, and distinct discal dots 

 and posterior line. 



Common at Sydney on fences, and also at Blackheath on the 

 Blue Mountains (3,500 feet) in October and November, 

 apparently attached to Eucalyptus. 



36. Hel. severa, n. sp. 



Minor, alis ant. griseis, pallido-sparsis, punctis disci tribus 

 maculaque marginis postici sub apice saturatioribus ; post, griseis. 



? . 18 mm. Head and palpi whitish-ochreous mixed with 

 greyish-fuscous. Antennae whitish-ochreous, obscurely annulated 

 with fuscous. Thorax greyish-fuscous, coarsely mixed with 

 whitish-ochreous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, suffused with grey. 

 Anterior tibiae and tarsi greyish-fuscous, with whitish rings at 

 apex of joints ; middle tibiae ochreous-whitish mixed with grey, 

 tarsi g^'ey with whitish rings at apex of joints ; posterior tibiae 

 and tarsi whitish. Forewings moderate, costa gently arched, 

 apex rather obtuse, hindmargin slightly concave, rather oblique ; 

 greyish-fuscous, coarsely strewn with ochreous-whitish scales, 

 more thickly tow^ards hindmargin ; a dark fuscous dot in disc 



