722 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



nearly straight, oblique ; light ochreous-brown, towards base 

 suffusedly irrorated with white, veins posteriorly blackish ; tufts 

 anteriorly blackish, posteriorly white ; a rather broad irregular 

 white subcostal streak from base to above second tuft, connecting 

 with a narrower white streak from second tuft to below third ; a 

 fine fuscous indistinct line from 1 of costa to ^ of inner margin, 

 curved outwards to touch second tuft, indented below middle ; a 

 straight irregular-edged white streak from costa near apex to § of 

 inner margin, anteriorly sharply defined, posteriorly suffused, above 

 extending to apex ; a fine irregular dentate white subterminal line, 

 touching hindmargin below middle : cilia fuscous, irrorated with 

 white. Hindwings and cilia light grey. 



Blackheath (3,500 feet) and Mount Kosciusko (4,300 feet), New 

 South Wales ; Victoria ; Mount Lofty, South Australia ; in 

 January, several specimens. 



48. Sor. aidacota, n. sp. 



£ £. 18-23 mm. Head, antennae and thorax white, more or less 

 thinly sprinkled with fuscous. Palpi 4|-5, white externally irror. 

 ated with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish. Legs dark fuscous, 

 irrorated and ringed with white, posterior pair whitish. Forewings 

 very elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, 

 hindmargin somewhat rounded, very oblique ; fuscous, irregularly 

 and suffusedly irrorated with white ; a suffused blackish streak 

 beneath costa from base to middle ; a fine obscure very acutely 

 angulated transverse line of dark fuscous dots about £ ; two 

 blackish-fuscous transverse lines, acutely angulated above middle ; 

 first from middle of costa to middle of inner margin, followed by 

 a parallel series of black dots sometimes confluent with it ; second 

 from f of costa to inner margin before anal angle, marked with 

 black striguke on veins, somewhat interrupted below angle ; a 

 hindmarginal series of black strigulse : cilia dark fuscous, densely 

 irrorated with white, basal half barred with white. Hindwings 

 and cilia grey-whitish. 



Warragul, Victoria ; Deloraine, Tasmania ; in December, four 

 specimens. 



