BY E. MEYRICK, B.A. 347 



apex round-pointed, hindmargin extremely obliquely rounded : 

 light grey, densely irrorated and costa suffused with pale whitish- 

 ochreous ; base of costa black ; some scattered black scales, 

 especially towards apex, and sometimes seeming to form a dot in 

 disc before middle, and another obliquely before it on fold ; a 

 larger blackish dot in disc beyond middle : cilia pale grey, irrorated 

 with pale whitish-ochreous. Hindwings light grey ; cilia whitish- 

 grey, with a faint darker line. 



Near the preceding, but cannot be confused with it. 



Hobart and Deloraine, Tasmania, in November and December ; 

 common but local. 



28. Phlceopola Meyr. 



Head with loosely appressed scales, sidetufts large, loosely 

 spreading. Antennae in tf moderately stout, somewhat serrate, 

 moderately ciliated (f-2), basal joint rather elongate, moderate, 

 without pecten. Palpi long or rather long, second joint reaching 

 or exceeding base of antennas, dilated with dense appressed scales, 

 slightly rough beneath, terminal joint as long as second or some- 

 what shorter, moderate or stout, strongly recurved. Thorax with . 

 dense posterior crest. Forewings elongate, moderate, apex bluntly 

 rounded, hindmargin oblique. Hindwings as broad as fore win »s 

 or somewhat narrower, elongate ovate, hindmargin rounded, cilia 

 ^ to |-. Abdomen moderate, strongly margined. Middle tibia? 

 with a median whorl of projecting hairs, and roughly short-haired 

 beneath ; posterior tibiae clothed with long dense hairs above. 

 Forewings with vein 7 to apex, 2 from angle of cell. Hindwings 

 normal. 



This genus appears to form the nearest representative of the 

 transitional stage between the two main groups of the family, that 

 of Oecojjhora on the one hand, and that of Uulechria and Philobota 

 on the other. It is therefore of considerable importance. The 

 apex of the forewings is in most of the species peculiarly rounded, 

 so that it is difficult to determine where the exact apical point is, 

 and the termination of vein 7 appears therefore in some cases to 

 fluctuate between the costa and hindmargin. It is then easy to 



