744 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



triangular dark fuscous spot on costa near apex, touching a 

 trapezoidal dark fuscous blotch extending along hindmargin from 

 below apex to above anal angle, and reaching inwards nearly to 

 projection of median fascia : cilia fuscous, darker at base, above 

 apex white, on anal angle whitish-ochreous. Hind wings whitish- 

 ochreous j a discal dot at § and a small cloudy apical spot light 

 grey ; cilia whitish-ochreous. 



Newcastle and Sydney, New South Wales; in September and 

 October, four specimens. 



81. Com. spar sana, Walk. 



{Conchylis sparsana, Walk. Tort. 369 ; Pallene gracilis, But!.,. 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1877, 376.) 



(J Q. 16-17 mm. Head white or ochreous-white, face and palpi 

 dark fuscous. Antennae whitish, in £ slenderly bidentate. 

 Thorax black, collar, a small spot on each side of back, and apex 

 of patagia white. Abdomen light ochreous-yellow. Legs dark 

 fuscous, posterior pair pale yellowish. Fore wings very elongate- 

 triangular, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin some- 

 what rounded, oblique ; ochreous-white ; markings blackish ; a dot 

 at base of costa ; a dot near inner margin before middle ; a series 

 of three black dots from £ of costa to middle of median fascia ; a 

 slender rather irregular slightly inwards-curved fascia from middle 

 of costa to beyond middle of inner margin, followed by a more or 

 less distinct cloudy parallel almost confluent line ; a transverse 

 linear mark in disc at f, connected by a suffusion with an irregular 

 somewhat outwards-curved series of dots from f of costa to anal 

 angle ; an irregular suffused streak from costa near apex to middle 

 of hindmargin, forming a spot on costa, attenuated beneath ; a 

 hind marginal series of dots : cilia ochreous-white or whitish- 

 ochreous. Hindwings light ochreous-yellow ; a transverse-linear 

 dot in disc at § , and a small cloudy apical spot dark grey ; cilia pale 

 yellowish. 



Queensland ; Sydney, New South Wales ; in September and 

 October, rather common. 

 Sect. B. Antennas of <J filiform, moderately and evenly ciliated. 



