BY E. MEYRICK. 657 



prominent, hindmargin strongly bowed so as to be almost bent on 

 vein 5 ; light brown-reddish, scantily irregularly irrorated with 

 short blackish-grey strigulse, median and subterminal bands 

 somewhat paler and whitish-tinged, latter terminating in a 

 whitish costal blotch ; lines obscurely indicated by confluence of 

 irroration ; median slightly curved, on lower half mixed with 

 white and black scales, terminating in a dilated spot on inner 

 margin ; second tolerably parallel to hindmargin ; a moderate 

 discal dot : cilia dark reddish-brown, obscurely spotted with 

 blackish, tips white. Hindwings with hindmargin rounded, 

 waved ; ochreous-whitish, thinly sprinkled with short grey 

 strigulse ; a grey discal dot ; a rather broad light reddish hind- 

 marginal band, more closely irrorated with grey strigulee ; cilia 

 dark grey, spotted with blackish, tips white. 



Melbourne and Warragul, Victoria ; two specimens ( Coll. 

 Lucas). 



91. Mnes. lenaea, n.sp. 



<JQ. 38-40 mm. Antennse in g with short lamelliform broadly 

 clavate pectinations (1). Forewings with apex prominent, hind- 

 margin strongly bowed so as to be almost bent on vein 5 ; pale 

 ashy-grey, slightly purplish- tinged, with scattered blackish scales, 

 apex more whitish-tinged, in £ suffused with ochreous on basal 

 half and towards inner margin, scales on this area more or less 

 raised so as to appear strigulated with lighter and darker ; median 

 shade and second line parallel, thick, cloudy, ill-defined, in £ 

 fuscous, in £ ochreous, somewhat curved, bent above middle, 

 slightly sinuate below middle ; a large obscure darker fuscous 

 discal dot, placed on median shade : cilia dark ochreous-brown, 

 tips whitish. Hindwings with hindmargin unevenly rounded, 

 strongly waved ; dull whitish or whitish-ochreous, strewn with 

 grey strigulee or dots, posterior half distinctly purplish-tinged ; a 

 large cloudy dark grey discal dot. 



Bathurst (2300 feet), New South Wales ; Melbourne, Victoria ; 

 Mount Lofty, South Australia ; in March, three specimens. 



