BY E. MEYRICK. 623 



ground colour immediately beyond this somewhat mixed with 

 whitish ; subterminal very obscure, whitish, subdentate, suffused 

 towards middle with dark grey, which forms a short oblique sub- 

 apical streak ; an interrupted black hindmarginal line. Hind- 

 wings with hindmargin rounded, somewhat waved ; yellowish- 

 ochreous, more whitish towards base and inner margin, strewn 

 with dark fuscous scales or short strigula?, apex suffused with dark 

 grey ; median shade blackish, somewhat bent in middle ; second 

 line rather thick, blackish, slightly sinuate, edged with whitish 

 posteriorly ; subterminal suffusedly edged with blackish anteriorly; 

 an interrupted black hindmarginal line. 



Brisbane, Queensland ; one specimen received from Dr. Lucas. 

 The yellowish tinge of the hindwings, though obscure, is a notice- 

 able characteristic. 



12. Hybernia, Latr. 



Face tolerably smooth. Tongue short. Palpi moderate, por- 

 rected, rough-scaled, terminal joint short. Antennas in £ moder- 

 ately bipectinated throughout. Thorax not crested, slightly hairy 

 beneath. Femora glabrous ; posterior tibia? in £ not dilated. Q 

 semiapterous. Forewings in <J without fovea ; 1 1 absent. Hind- 

 wings normal. 



A small genus, occurring in the temperate regions of both 

 hemispheres. The neuration quoted above is simply that of the 

 Australian species ; those of other regions display great variability 

 in this character, but it is unnecessary to complicate the descrip- 

 tion of the genus by recording these variations here. 



46. Hyb. indocilis, Walk. 



(Zermizinga indocilisaria (!), Walk. 1530; Hybernia boreophi- 

 laria, Gn., Ent. Mo. Mag. V, 61 ; H. indocilis, Meyr., Trans. 

 N.Z. Inst. 1883, 97.) 



(J. 24-29 mm. Antennal pectinations a 6, b 7. Forewings 

 with hindmargin gently rounded, waved ; pale fuscous-grey, 

 irrorated with dark fuscous ; first line dark fuscous, curved, some- 

 what irregular; median shade cloudy, dark fuscous, slightly curved; 

 second line dark fuscous or blackish, slightly curved, twice slightly 



