628 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



51. Ectr. exsuperata, Walk. 



(Boarmia exsuperata, Walk. 393; Tephrosla disposita, ib. 421.) 

 ^Q. 23-27 mm. Head whitish-ochreous or whitish, lower mar- 

 gin of face white surmounted by a narrow dark fuscous bar. 

 Antennae in £ with a closely approximated pair of moderate 

 pectinations (3-^) on each side of each joint, almost touching at 

 base but diverging towards apex, apical J simple. Forewings with 

 hindmargin rounded; 10 separate, 11 absent; pale brownish- 

 ochreous, irrorated with whitish, and with scattered blackish 

 scales; first line and median shade ill-marked, slender, dull reddish- 

 ochreous, angulated near costa, first line partially marked with 

 blackish ; a blackish discal dot preceding median shade ; second 

 line slender, blackish, more or less interrupted or dotted, somewhat 

 curved, rather sinuate inwards on lower third, nearly followed by 

 a dull reddish-ochreous parallel shade; subterminal whitish, waved, 

 suffusedly margined with dull reddish-ochreous, anterior margin 

 partially dotted with blackish ; a hindmarginal row of black dots. 

 Hindwings with hindmargin rounded, waved ; colour, second, and 

 subterminal lines as in forewings; a rather strongly marked 

 slightly sinuate blackish median shade, nearly followed by a dull 

 reddish-ochreous sometimes broad parallel shade. 



Newcastle and Sydney, New South Wales; Melbourne, Vic- 

 toria ; Mount Lofty, South Australia ; in October and March, 

 rather common. Distinguished by the approximated pairs of 

 moderate antennal pectinations, and the dull reddish-ochreous 

 transverse shades. 



52. Ectr. subtinctaria, Walk. 



(Tephrosia subtinctaria, Walk. 415.) 



$Q. 29-44 mm. Head pale yellowish-ochreous or ochreous- 

 whitish, face with a median blackish bar. Antennse in £ with 

 joints flatly dentate, each dentation emitting two short teeth on 

 each side, terminating in long fascicles of cilia. Abdomen with a 

 dark fuscous subbasal band. Forewings with hindmargin rounded, 

 waved; 11 rising out of 10; pale yellowish-ochreous, in £ partially 

 suffused with whitish, strewn with short fuscous strigulse and a 



