BY E. MEYRICK, B.A., F.E.S. 717 



Palpi brownish, internally white. Antennae whitish. Legs light 

 fuscous. Fore wings elongate, suboblong, slightly dilated, costa 

 gently arched, apex rounded, hindmargin oblique, almost straight ; 

 white, sometimes irroratecl with fuscous ; a blackish streak along 

 submedian fold from base to middle, bordered above by a reddish- 

 fuscous suffusion extending anteriorly to costa ; two tufts of 

 blackish-fuscous scales obliquely placed in disc ; two series of 

 short fine black longitudinal strigulae, first from ^ of costa to ? of 

 inner margin, acutely angulated in disc, second from middle of 

 costa to beneath costa at j, thence to near middle of hindmargin, 

 and acutely angulated to | of inner margin ; a cloudy brown subtri- 

 angular spot on costa at f , containing a black strigula ; a short 

 oblique brown streak before hindmargin beneath apex, containing 

 two short black longitudinal strigulye ; a dark brown hindmarginal 

 line : cilia fuscous mixed with white. Hindwings in £ g^ey- 

 whitish, in £ pale grey, apex and hindmargin darker ; cilia grey- 

 whitish. 



Rockhampton, Queensland ; Sydney, New South Wales ; three 

 specimens. 



19. Sorocostia, Ros. 



Face with projecting scales ; tongue well-developed. Antennae 

 in g filiform, rather strongly ciliated (1J-2), basal joint somewhat 

 tufted. Palpi from moderate to very long, straight, porrected, 

 densely rough-haired above and beneath. Middle and posterior 

 tibiae clothed with long fine loose hairs above, in Q less strongly. 

 Forewings with tufts of scales on surface ; 2 from beyond middle, 

 7 and 8 out of 9, 10 absent. Hindwings with veins 2, 3, and 5 

 parallel, 4 absent, 6 and 7 stalked or rarely from a point, 8 from 

 middle. 



The forewings have in all the species of this and the following 

 genus three more or less strong tufts of scales in a row near the 

 costa, the first being near the base and the third about the middle. 

 The species are all small and inconspicuous, and therefore much 

 neglected. The length of the palpi is stated in terms of the breadth 

 of the eye. 



