BY E. MEYRICK. 609 



28. Sel. luxaria, Gn. 



( Hemerophila luxaria, Gn. IX, 220; Tephrosia disperdita, Walk. 

 416.) 



(J. 34-35 mm. Face blackish-fuscous, lower margin and a bar 

 above middle whitish-ochreous. Antennal pectinations 6, apical 

 £ simple. Thorax pale brownish-ochreous, with a strong black 

 anterior bar. Forewings with hindmargin obliquely rounded, 

 waved ; 10 connected with 9, 11 rising out of 10 ; pale brownish- 

 ochreous, with scattered black scales ; a blackish line beneath 

 costa from base to about \ ; first line and median shade fine, 

 blackish-fuscous, very oblique, becoming obsolete towards costa ; 

 a black discal dot between these ; second line represented by a 

 black twice sinuate line running from hindmargin beneath apex 

 to \ of inner margin, preceded by a broad suffused whitish 

 irroration, and nearly followed by a dark fuscous shade ; a short 

 irregular blackish-fuscous very oblique line from costa before apex; 

 subterminal whitish, partially dark-margined, dentate, obsolete 

 towards costa ; a hindmarginal row of black dots or interrupted 

 line. Hindwings with hindmargin gently rounded, unevenly 

 dentate ; colour and hindmarginal line as in forewings ; median 

 shade straight, slender, dark fuscous ; a black discal dot ; second 

 line somewhat irregularly sinuate, black, nearly, followed by a 

 parallel dark fuscous shade; subterminal whitish, rather irregular, 

 margined with blackish-fuscous. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; from September to November, 

 rather common. Easily known from the other ochreous species 

 by the characteristic form of the second line, and the blackish 

 basal subcostal line. T may mention that Guenee's hemipteraria, 

 which some have referred to this species, is in my opinion a 

 New Zealand species of a different group (vid. Trans. N. Zeal. 

 Inst. 1887, 60). 



29. Sel. excursaria, Gn. 



(Tephrosia excursaria', Gn. IX, 267 ; T. exportaria, ib. 268 ; 

 T. phibalapteraria, ib. 268 ; Hemerophila vestita, Walk. 322 ; 

 Boarmia attributa, ib. 390; B. decertaria, ib. 391.) 



