. BY E. MEYRICK, B.A. 505 



Allied to H, costi macula^ o£ which I once fancied it nii^ht 

 prove an abnormal variety, though the markings are very different ; 

 but the wings are distinctly narrower and less dilated, and the 

 ground colour much browner, so that it is probably a perfectly 

 good species. 



Two specimens taken near Sydney in December. 



66. Hopl. ahsiunptella, Walk. 

 fDepressaria ahswnptelJa, AValk., Brit. Mus. Cat. oQ7.) 



Minor, alis ant. griseo-carneis, punctis disci tribus, strigis tribus 

 transversis dentatis serieque punctorum marginis postici saturate 

 griseis ; post, saturate ochreo-griseis, 



S ? . 15-20 mm. Head and thorax whitish-grey, slightly 

 ochreous-tinged, mixed with dark fuscous, face whitish-ochreous. 

 Palpi ochreous-whitish, terminal joint and apex of second 

 anteriorly suffused with dark grey. Antennae ochreous-whitish, 

 sharply annulated with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, 

 segments ochreous-brown except on margins. Anterior tibiae and 

 tarsi carmine-pink mixed with dark grey, tarsal joints with 

 ochreous-whitish apical rings ; middle tibiae ochreous, tarsi grey 

 with whitish rings at apex of joints ; posterior legs whitish- 

 ochreous, tarsal joints faintly grey towards base : femora white 

 beneath. Forewings moderate, somewhat dilated posteriorly 

 costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin rounded, oblique ; 

 purple-fuscous thickly overlaid with grey-whitish scales ; costal 

 edge very narrowly carmine-pink, tips of scales whitish ; a dark 

 grey dot in disc before middle, a second in disc beyond middle, 

 and a third obliquely beyond first on fold ; three rather oblique 

 tolerably well-defined dark grey lines, very strongly and irregularly 

 dentate, crossing wing near base, at i, and about middle, generally 

 thickened on costa and inner margin, sometimes by partial 

 obsolescence and confluence appearing to take different and more 

 oblique directions ; a distinct slender, sometimes interrupted, 



