658 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



92. Mnes. jirivata, Gn. 



(Idiodes privata, Gn. IX, 41, pi. xiv, 4.) 



(JQ. 40-43 mm. Antennae in g filiform, ciliations ^. Fore- 

 wings with apex prominent, hindmargin waved, strongly bowed 

 so as to be almost bent on vein 5 ; light ochreous, with short 

 scattered grey strigulae and a few blackish scales ; basal half more 

 brownish or reddish-tinged, with somewhat raised scales ; median 

 shade rather broad, cloudy, light reddish-fuscous, forming obtuse 

 angles outwards above and below middle, inwards in middle and 

 above inner margin ; a cloudy dark grey discal dot beyond this ; 

 second line formed by a cloudy hardly darker ochreous shade, 

 slightly curved above middle. Hindwings with hindmargin 

 unevenly rounded, strongly waved ; deep ochreous-yellow, some- 

 what deeper and more ochreous towards hindmargin ; a few dark 

 grey scales towards hindmargin ; a dark grey discal dot, some- 

 times indistinct ; cilia dark ochreous-fuscous, tips whitish. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; Melbourne, Victoria ; Mount 

 Lofty, South Australia ; in March, four specimens. 



93. Mnes. fncata, Feld. 



(Chlenias fucata, Feld. pi. cxxiv, 11.) 



(j£. 57-74 mm. Head and thorax light ochreous-orange, 

 rosy-tinged, thorax with a small fuscous central spot. Antennae 

 in ^ with lamellate pectinations (3). Forewings with apex 

 somewhat prominent, hindmargin moderately bowed ; in $ pale 

 yellowish-ochreous, in Q reddish-ochreous ; numerous scattered 

 rather dark purplish-fuscuous dots or small strigulae, more purplish 

 in (J ; a larger dark fuscous dot at base near inner margin, and 

 another in disc towards base; a small roundish dark fuscous 

 discal spot, its centre deep ferruginous. Hindwings with hind- 

 margin rounded, waved ; in £ ochreous-whitish, in Q pale yellow- 

 ochreous, becoming whitish-yellowish towards base ; rarely apex 

 broadly suffused with fulvous and irrorated with dark grey ; cilia 

 pale ochreous-yellowish. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; Melbourne, Victoria ; Mount 

 Lofty, South Australia; in May, three specimens. 



