BY E. MEYRICK. 629 



few dark fuscous scales ; first Hue slender, blackish, somewhat 

 irregular, sharply angulated near costa ; median shade slender, 

 cloudy, dark fuscous, irregular, angulated above middle, dilated on 

 costa, approximated to second line towards inner margin ; second 

 line blackish, indented beneath costa, forming a strong bidentate 

 projection above middle, and a broader short obtusely bidentate 

 projection below middle, concavity between these followed by a 

 suffused fuscous or ochreous-brown spot ; subterminal pale or 

 whitish, slender, dentate, partially margined anteriorly and some- 

 times posteriorly by a dark fuscous suffusion ; a hindmarginal row 

 of black dots. Hind wings with hindmargin rounded, dentate ; 

 colour and markings as in forewings, but first line absent, median 

 shade nearly straight or slightly bent in middle, somewhat 

 irregular, second line tolerably evenly curved, without projection, 

 sinuate near inner margin, followed by a parallel deeper ochreous 

 shade throughout ; a cloudy dark fuscous discal dot beyond median 

 shade. 



Newcastle and Sydney, New South Wales ; in July and Octo- 

 ber, four specimens. From the other species with toothed antenna? 

 it is at once separated by the large size and ochreous colouring ; 

 there is considerable superficial likeness to Selidosema excursaria, 

 but apart from structural differences the colour and marking of 

 the face appear to give a good distinction. 



53. Ectr. fractaria, Gn. 



(Tephrosia fractaria, Gn. IX, 270 ; llypocliroma dissonata, 

 Walk. 443; H. nigraria, Feld. pi. cxxvi, 1.) 



(JQ. 28-34 mm. Head grey- whitish, face with more or less 

 broad blackish-grey median bar. Antennae in <J with two short 

 acute projections on each side of eacli joint, terminating in 

 moderate fascicles of cilia. Forewings with hindmargin rounded, 

 strongly waved; 10 sometimes connected with 9, 11 absent; light 

 grey, irrorated and sometimes mixed with whitish, and densely 

 irrorated with dark grey, often forming short strigulse ; lines dark 

 fuscous, obscure, rather curved, first and second marked with 

 blackish dots or wedges on veins, first line nearly preceded and 



