BY E. METEICK, B.A. 477 



$ . 31 mm. Head brownish- gi'ey, face more yellowish, on 

 sides fuscous. Palpi pale greyish-ochreous, second joint suffused 

 with dark grey anteriorly and externally except at base and apex, 

 and crimson-tinged internally, terminal joint dark grey anteriorly. 

 Antennae grey, towards base crimson -tinged. Thorax brownish- 

 grey, posterior extremity crimson-tinged. Abdomen yellowish. 

 Anterior and middle legs dark fuscous-crimson, apex of tarsal 

 joints lighter crimson ; posterior tibiae yellow, tarsi crimson, 

 suffused with grey towards base of joints ; all legs beneath 

 yellowish, suffused with crimson. Forewings moderately broad, 

 costa anteriorly rather strongly arched, posteriorly nearly straight, 

 apex obtuse, hindmargin sinuate beneath apex, slightly oblique ; 

 brownish- grey, with a broad ill- defined purplish suffusion extend- 

 ing from 5^ along inner margin and hindmargin to apex, attenuated 

 to extremities ; costal edge crimson ; a very ill -defined dark grey 

 dot on fold before middle, and a second in disc beyond middle ; 

 indications of a very suffused cloudy fuscous-purplish angulated 

 transverse fascia in disc at about i ; a hindmarginal row" of 

 obscure dark fuscous dots : cilia fuscous-purplish. Hindwings 

 golden-yellow, wdth a well-defined rather narrow^ blackish-fuscous 

 hindmarginal border, considerably dilated at apex; cilia dark grey, 

 more blackish at apex. 



Closely allied to 11. triphcBnatella, from w^hich the most reliable 

 point of distinction is probably the well- marked crimson suffusion 

 of the legs beneath ; other characters (which may be liable to 

 variation) are the larger size, the much greyer, darker, and glossier 

 forewings, the purple cilia, the deeper yellow hindwings, with 

 much more sharply-defined border. 



Two specimens taken on a fence near Sydney in September, 

 during a high wind. 



43. Hel. triphcenatella, "Walk. 



f Cryptolechia triplicBnatella^ Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 753 ; 

 Cryptolechia oecopTiorella, ibid. 760.) 



