BY E. MEYRICK, B.A. 829 



Deloraine, Tasmania ; one specimen from Leptosperinum in 

 December, taken after dark. 



ZoNOPETALA, Meyr. 

 515. (30a.) Zon. synarthra, n. sp. 



Media, cana, thorace antice nigro, alis ant. costte basi, fascia 

 antica, altera postica angustiore antice oclireo-marginata, punctoque 

 disci postico transverso nigris ; post. luteolis,postice griseo-suffusis. 



(J ?. 15-21 mm. Head white. Palpi white, lower half of 

 second joint blackish. Antennae dark fuscous. Thorax white, 

 anterior half blackish. Abdomen pale yellowish-ochreous. I.egs 

 dark fuscous, posterior pair pale yellowish-ochreous. Forewings 

 moderate, costa moderately arched, apex round pointed, hindmargin 

 hardly rounded, oblique; white, sometimes faintly yellowish-tinged; 

 markings blackish ; a small spot on base of costa ; two straight 

 fasciae, their posterior edges irregularly dentate ; first moderate, 

 from I of costa to beyond middle of inner margin ; second narrow, 

 anteriorly generally suffusedly margined with whitish-ochreous, 

 from ^ of costa to anal angle ; a transverse linear dot in disc 

 between these, nearer second ; beneath this a cloudy grey dot ; a 

 cloudy grey spot on hindmargin beneath apex ; a dot on costa 

 before apex, and a hindmarginal line, interrupted above anal angle : 

 cilia whitish-ochreous, basal half on hindmargin white spotted with 

 grey, with a blackish apical spot. Hindwing.s whitish-ochreous, 

 apex greyish, in 2 wholly grey except towards base ; cilia whitish- 

 ochreous, with a cloudy grey basal line. 



Diflfers from all by the conspicuous separate black discal dot ; 

 the nearest species is Z. decisana, in which alone the discal dot is 

 present, but united at its lower extremity with the anterior fascia, 

 and the posterior markings are reddish-brown. 



Mount Kosciusko (4,700 feet), New South Wales, in January ; 

 Quorn, South Australia, in October ; locally rather common. 



516. (31a.) Zon. erythrosema, n. sp. 

 Media, carnea, alis ant. macula disci antica jjartim rubro- 

 marginata fasciaque postica sinuata antice sufi"usa nigricantibus ; 

 post, griseis. 



