28 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



56. Mos. jucunda, Walk. 



(Pallene jucunda, Walk. Bomb. 543 ; Tospitis transitana, ib. 

 Tort. 430). 



(J Q. 16-19 mm. Head, palpi, and antennae ochreous-yellow. 

 Thorax ochreous-yellow, posterior half black. Abdomen dark 

 fuscous, apex and undersurface yellow. Legs ochreous-yellow, 

 anterior pair and all tarsi suffused with dark fuscous above. 

 Forewings elongate triangular, costa moderately arched, apex 

 obtuse, hindmargin oblique, nearly straight ; ochreous-yellow; base 

 narrowly black ; two narrow somewhat irregular nearly straight 

 black fasciae, first from J of costa to middle of inner margin, 

 second from f of costa to anal angle : cilia ochreous-yellow, 

 with a small grey spot on anal angle. Hindwings light ochreous- 

 yellow ; a moderate blackish hindmarginal fascia, on upper half 

 leaving a slender marginal streak of groundcolour, attenuated near 

 anal angle : cilia pale ochreous-yellow, on lower half of hind- 

 margin grey on basal half. 



Duaringa and Gayndah, Queensland ; Sydney, New South 

 Wales ; in November, not uncommon. 



Sect. B. Forewings with veins 3 and 4 separate. 



57. Mos. anartoides, Walk. 



(Mosoda anartoides, Walk. Suppl. 1900.) 

 ^ £. 22-24 mm. Head black, slightly mixed with whicish- 

 ochreous. Antennae black, basal joint with a whitish-ochreous 

 posterior spot. Abdomen black, anal tuft light yellow-ochreous. 

 Legs dark fuscous ringed with whitish-ochreous, posterior tibiae 

 whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin rather obliquely rounded ; black- 

 ish-fuscous, thinly sprinkled with ochreous-whitish ; three very 

 irregularly dentate transverse lines formed by a denser ochreous- 

 whitish irroration, margins appearing darker through absence of 

 irroration first before ^, second from I of costa to middle of inner 



