BY E. MEYRICK, B.A. 1067 



middle ; a narrow greyish-purple suffusion along hindmargin from 

 apex to near anal angle : cilia ochreous-yellow, on anal angle liglit 

 grey, becoming reddish-purple at base. Hindwings elongate-ovate, 

 round-pointed, veins 3 and 4 from a point or slightly remote ; 

 whitish-ochreous, apex and hindmargin narrowly suffused with 

 grey ; cilia whitish-ochreous. 



Closely allied to 0. acroxantha, but lighter and brighter- 

 coloured, and separable by the ochreous-whitish head and thorax, 

 and whitish-ochreous hindwings. 



Sydney, New South Wales; two specimens in September and 



October. 



372. Ocyst. callista, n. sp. 



Minor, alis ant. rufescentibus, macula dorsi media pallidiore, 



costa nivea, punctis disci tribus areaque apicali saturate purpuieo- 

 fuscis, ciliis flavis ; pest, dilute ochreis. 



£. 16 mm. Head and thorax purple-fuscous, with scattered 

 grey-whitish hair-scales. Palpi white, terminal joint and apical 

 half of second externally purple, terminal joint J of second. 

 Antennae dark fuscous, ciliations 2^. Abdomen pale yellow- 

 ochreous. Legs white, anterior pair internally dark fuscous 

 suffused with reddish purple, hairs of posteror tibia? light yellow- 

 ochreous. Fore wings elongate, rather narrow, costa sinuate, apex 

 round- pointed, hindmargin sinuate, very oblique ; dark purple- 

 fuscous, lighter towards inner margin anteriorly, and densely 

 strewn in disc from near base to f with pale greyish-ochreous 

 hair-scales ; a snow-white streak along costa almost from base to 

 near apex ; a round pale flesh-coloured spot on inner margin 

 beyond middle, surmounted by a dark fuscous dot ; a second dark 

 fuscous dot in disc above and rather beyond this ; a fuscous ring 

 in disc beyond middle, connected with costal streak and inner 

 margin by fuscous lines : cilia bright yellow, on costa bright 

 crimson, on anal angle grey, becoming purplish at base. Hind- 

 wings broad-lanceolate, tolerably acute, veins 3 and 4 from a 

 point ; pale yellow-ochreous, semihyaline, veins and margins 

 densely scaled ; cilia light ochreous-yellow, from middle of hind- 

 margin to anal angle greyish. 



