BY E. MEYRICK. 587 



Discal spot of fore wings ochreous, edged with 



blackish 2. australiaria. 



Discal spot of forewings wholly dark fuscous 3. margarilis. 



2. Diast. australiaria, Gn. 



(Halia australiaria, Gn. X, 91; Selenia apamaria, Walk. 255; 

 Macaria remotaria, ib. 938; M. gratularia, ib. 939; M. infixaria, 

 ib. 939 ; M. frontaria, ib. 1652 ; M. panagraria, ib. 1653 ; M. 

 porrectaria, ib. Suppl. 1659.) 



ftQ. '27-32 mm. Antenna! pectinations in ft 1J, very strongly 

 ciliated. Forewings with hindmargin angularly projecting on vein 

 4, slightly in ft, more strongly in <J>, upper half somewhat concave; 

 vein 1 1 connected with 12 and 9 ; pale brownish-ochreous, sprinkled 

 with dark fuscous dots or short strigulae, and sometimes suffusedly 

 irrorated with whitish towards disc and costa ; first line slender, 

 fuscous or dark fuscous, indented in middle, sometimes obsolete ; 

 a faint or indistinct fuscous median shade ; a narrow transverse 

 somewat irregular ochreous discal spot, strongly edged with 

 blackish in ft, less strongly in Q ; second line formed by a series 

 of dark fuscous dots, nearly straight, bent near costa, sometimes 

 obsolete ; terminal area beyond this line in £ suffused with 

 ferruginous-ochreous, except a triangular apical patch, which is 

 edged anteriorly by a darker streak, which exists in ft also as a 

 conspicuous short dark ferruginous-fuscous streak from costa. 

 Hind wings rather strongly angulated on vein 4, more prominently 

 in £ ; colour, median shade, and second line as in forewings ; a 

 cloudy dark fuscous discal dot, sometimes indistinct ; terminal 

 area beyond second line more brownish-tinged, with anterior 

 margin of a faint subterminal line usually more or less indicated 

 with ferrugiuous-ochreous. 



Sydney, Bathurst (2300 feet), and Orange (3000 feet), New 

 South Wales ; Melbourne, Victoria ; Launceston, Deloraine, and 

 Hobart, Tasmania ; from August to January, common amongst 

 Acacia decurrens, on which the larva feeds. The species is 

 variable, but not excessively so, though the difference in the sexes 

 is rather marked. 



