BY E. MEYRICK, B.A., F.E.S. 729 



margin, third from a small ochreous-white spot on costa at f to anal 

 angle ; a small ochreous-white discal spot at | ; an ochreous-white 

 dot on costa before apex, a small spot with dot on each side on 

 hindmargin above middle, and a small spot beneath which are two 

 dots on hindmargin below middle : cilia blackish, with slender 

 ochreous-white bars, tips suffused with whitish-ochreous. Hind- 

 wings bright orange ; a very irregular black hindmarginal fascia, 

 forming a moderately large irregular spot at apex and another 

 above anal angle, connected on middle of hindmargin by a slender 

 line only ; cilia blackish. 



Larva feeds on lichens on rock-faces. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; common in August, at rest on 

 rocks. 



58, Mos. consolatrix, Ros. 



(Mosoda consolatrix, Ros. Ann. Mag. N.H. 1885, 381.) 



$ 9- 21-25 mm. Differs from M. a7iartoid.es only as follows : 

 Head with sides and front of crown whitish. Palpi wholly black. 

 Patagia white towards apex. Forewings somewhat lighter, ochre- 

 ous-whitish lines more pronounced, especially second towards costa. 

 Hindwings with lower black spot of hindmargin reduced to a thin 

 marginal streak. 



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Bathurst (2,300 feet) and Mount Kosciusko (4,700 feet), New 

 South Wales ; also from Victoria ; in November and January, 

 several specimens. 



59. Mos. 0]?hiodes, n. sp. 



£. 25 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi black. (Antennae 

 broken.) Thorax blackish, posterior half suffusedly ochreous- 

 whitish. Abdomen ochreous-yellowish. Logs black, banded with 

 whitish-ochreous, posterior pair yellowish. Forewings elongate- 

 triangular, costa moderately arched, slightly sinuate, apex rounded, 

 hindmargin obliquely rounded ; white, with a few minute scat- 

 tered black scales ; two straight subdentate cloudy blackish lines 

 towards base, not reaching inner margin ; first and second lines 



