654 REVISION OP AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



continued to reach fascia; a straight narrow deep ferruginous- 

 orange fascia, edged with black except near costa, running from 

 costa before f to anal angle, which it hardly reaches, posterior 

 margin forming a projection outwards in middle; some orange and 

 black scales on inner margin towards middle, or sometimes an 

 orange black-margined streak along inner margin from near base 

 to anal angle : cilia orange, becoming white towards anal angle. 

 Hindwings with hindmargin rounded, waved ; sometimes a small 

 grey spot towards apex. Undersurface of hindwings white, with 

 a large round subapical blotch, of which upper half is deep orange, 

 lower half black. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; Melbourne, Victoria ; three speci- 

 mens. 



87. Thai clara, Walk. 



(Thalaina clara, Walk. Bomb. 660.) 



<Jg. 34-36 mm. Head deep ferruginous-orange, forehead dark 

 fuscous, face white. Antennal ciliations of $ \. Thorax white, 

 anterior margin sometimes fuscous, shoulders with a small orange 

 spot. Forewings with apex slightly prominent, hindmargin 

 strongly bowed, slightly waved; 11 anastomosing with 12 and 

 10 ; silvery- white ; markings deep ferruginous-orange, strongly 

 edged with black ; a narrow streak along costa from base to first 

 fascia; a streak along inner margin from near base to anal angle; 

 a straight narrow fascia running from costa before § to anal angle, 

 meeting dorsal streak ; a second similar fascia from J of costa to 

 middle of hindmargin ; a longitudinal nearly straight streak 

 connecting first fascia above middle with lower extremity of 

 second fascia ; a blackish hindmarginal line : cilia orange, termi- 

 nal half grey-whitish. Hindwings with hindmargin rounded, 

 upper half waved ; white ; a moderate or rather large irregular 

 blackish-grey subapical blotch. Undersurface white, with a large 

 subapical blotch, of which upper half is deep orange suffusedly 

 margined with dark fuscous, lower half black. 



Bathurst (2300 feet) and Sydney, New South Wales; Mel- 

 bourne, Victoria ; from April to June, six specimens. The larva 

 feeds on Acacia decnrrens. The imago flies in winter, is retired 



