1038 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW LEPIDOPTERA, 



it may perhaps occur also on other plants. When the larva is 

 numerous, it completely clears the plant from Coccus for the time. 

 Sydney, in November, December, and March ; bred freely by 

 Mr. Masters, and also taken commonly by myself at light. 



Hednota, Meyr. 

 Hedn. xylophaea, n. sp. 



(J 2- 22-23 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax brownish-ochreous ; 

 labial palpi 5, very slender ; frontal cone strong. Antennae grey, 

 in g subdentate, shortly ciliated (J). Abdomen and legs whitish- 

 grey, sometimes ochreous-tinged. Forewings elongate, narrow, 

 costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin straight, very 

 oblique ; brownish-ochreous ; a thick cloudy blackish streak above 

 middle from base to hindmargin, much attenuated and tending to 

 be obsolete towards extremities, sometimes with a cloudy promin- 

 ence on lower edge beyond middle ; a cloudy narrow blackish 

 streak along submedian fold from base to anal angle ; between 

 these in one specimen is a straight white median streak throughout, 

 at posterior extremity with two wedge-shaped diminishing white 

 marks above it, and an ill-defined white subcostal streak from above 

 middle of disc to costa before apex : cilia grey -whitish, with an 

 indistinct fuscous line near base. Hindwings with veins 4 and 5 

 more or less stalked, or coincident ; grey-whitish, somewhat greyer 

 towards apex ; cilia white. 



Mount Lofty, South Australia ; three specimens taken by 

 Mr. E. Guest. 



TORTETCID^E 



Isochorista, Meyr. 



Isoch. cosmota, n. sp. 



(J. 17 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous, face, antenna?, and 

 patagia whitish-ochreous. Palpi whitish-ochreous, second joint 



