BY E. MEYRICK, B.A., F.E.S. 719 



42. Sor. paroxynta, n. sp. 



Q. 14-16 mm. Head white. Palpi 3, white, externally with a 

 longitudinal ochreous streak irrorated with black. Antennae 

 whitish. Thorax white, sprinkled with fuscous. Abdomen 

 whitish-grey. Legs grey-whitish, anterior and middle tarsi dark 

 fuscous ringed with whitish. Forewings elongate, somewhat 

 dilated, costa moderately arched, apex roundpointed, hindmargin 

 nearly straight, rather strongly oblique ; grey, very finely irrorated 

 with white ; a blackish irroration forming a cloudy median streak 

 from base to middle, expanded in disc ; lines very fine, black, some- 

 what interrupted ; first from ^ of costa to ^ of inner margin, 

 strongly curved ; second from middle of costa very obliquely 

 outwards, twice very acutely dentate outwards above middle, thence 

 to inner margin at f, posteriorly irregularly margined with white 

 except towards costa ; inner and hind margins narrowly suffused 

 with brownish-ochreous ; an ochreous-brown streak near before and 

 parallel to lower half of hindmargin, containing three short black 

 sometimes confluent longitudinal strigulaa ; a hindmarginal row of 

 short black strigulaa : cilia grey, irrorated with white points, and 

 with a row of black points. Hindwings and cilia light grey. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; in August and March ; three 

 specimens. 



43. Sor. trigonota, n. sp. 



£ Q. 18-19 mm. Head and thorax white, thinly irrorated with 

 grey. Palpi 3, grey, irrorated with white. Antennae and 

 abdomen whitish. Legs grey, ringed with white, posterior pair 

 white. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa moderately arched, 

 apex rounded, hindmargin nearly straight, rather strongly oblique ; 

 whitish-grey ; a black dot on base of costa ; a fine oblique blackish 

 strigula from costa near base to first tuft ; a blackish mark on 

 costa beyond £ ; first and second lines indicated by two rows of 

 black dots, starting from blackish marks on costa ; first from \ of 

 costa to \ of inner margin, angulated on second tuft, which is 

 blackish ; a blackish mark on costa beyond this, terminating in 



