638 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



Antennal pectinations in g 8, apical \ simple. Femora glabrous. 

 Forewings with hindmargin straight on upper half, rounded 

 beneath ; 11 anastomosing or connected with 12, rarely rising out 

 of 9 ; pale greyish-ochreous, irrorated with whitish, with a few 

 blackish scales ; costal edge pale rosy-ochreous, strigulated with 

 blackish ; first line and median shade fuscous, bent near costa, 

 sometimes very indistinct; a black discal dot before median shade; 

 second line fuscous, upper half rather curved outwards, usually 

 darker below middle ; subterminal obscurely whitish or hardly 

 paler, irregular, preceded by a series of light red spots, sometimes 

 incomplete, partially blackish-margined, especially below middle, 

 where the red is sometimes obscured with black and sometimes 

 confluent with second line ; a hindmarginal series of black dots. 

 Hindwings with hindmargin rounded ; colour and markings as in 

 forewings, but first line absent, discal dot beyond median shade, 

 median shade and second line straight, markings preceding sub- 

 terminal line fainter or usually obsolete. 



Adelaide, South Australia ; Geraldton and Perth, West Aus- 

 tralia ; in November, common. Distinguished by the wholly 

 whitish face ; this and the two following are nearly allied, aud 

 have the face more distinctly tufted than in the other species. 



65. Deil. cremnias, n.sp. 



£. 22-24 mm. Head white irrorated with fuscous, face shortly 

 tufted. Antennal pectinations 7, apical t simple. Femora glab- 

 rous. Forewings with hindmargin gently rounded ; 11 anasto- 

 mosing with 1 2 ; fuscous, closely irrorated with white ; lines 

 somewhat darker, very ill-defined, first angulated near costa, 

 almost obsolete, median shade thicker on lower half, sinuate near 

 costa, marked with a dark fuscous discal dot, second sinuate 

 inwards, somewhat irregular ; subterminal obscurely whitish, 

 preceded by a darker fuscous suffusion ; a hindmarginal row of 

 black dots. Hindwings with hindmargin strongly rounded ; 

 rather light grey ; median and second lines, and anterior margin 

 of subterminal line faintly darker, hardly defined ; a dark fuscous 

 discal dot; an interrupted dark fuscous hindmarginal line 



