598 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



29. Hindwings with second line almost 



straight 27. agoraea. 



Hindwings with second line distinctly 



curved 16. thermaea. 



12. Sel. silicaria, Gn. 



( Remercpliila silicaria, Gn. IX, 220 ; H. mundifera, Walk. 

 322; Boarmia disrupta, ib. 391; Hemerojihila excursaria, ib. 

 1532.) 



^£. 30-35 mm. Face dark fuscous, forehead and lower margin 

 whitish. Antenna! pectinations of £ 7, apical -l simple. Fore- 

 wings with hindmargin obliquely bowed ; vein 11 out of 10, 

 anastomosing with 12 ; pale brownish-ochreous, finely irrorated 

 with whitish, and with a few dark fuscous scales ; lines slender, 

 blackish-fuscous, sinuate, becoming obsolete towards costa, first 

 nearly preceded and second nearly followed by rather dark 

 ochreous-brown parallel shades ; a black discal dot before median 

 shade, which is slender, ochreous-brown, ill-marked, nearly 

 straight ; subterminal obscurely whitish, irregularly waved, 

 edged with brownish, connected with hindmargin beneath apex 

 by an oblique suffused dark brown streak, opposite which it is 

 edged anteriorly with blackish ; a hindmarginal row of black 

 dots. Hindwings with hindmargin hardly rounded, unevenly 

 waved-dentate ; in £ beneath with' a very deep longitudinal 

 furrow below middle from base to J ; colour, median shade, 

 subterminal line, and hindmarginal dots as in forewings ; discal 

 dot dark grey, obscure ; second line slender, blackish-fuscous, 

 somewhat irregular, nearly straight, indistinct towards costa, 

 nearly followed by a parallel brown shade. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; Melbourne, -Victoria ; Mount 

 Lofty, South Australia ; Albany, West Australia ; in September, 

 October, and March, six specimens. It is distinguished from all 

 by the peculiar longitudinal furrow in the hindwings of the <J. 



13. Sel. cheleuta, n.sp. 



(j£. 27-30 mm. Head pale greyish-brown, mixed with whitish, 

 with a few black scales. Forewings with hindmargin rounded ; 



