Aiidraiiari Lepidoptera. 259 



Hydrioniena laiiguescens, Meyr. P.L.S. N.S.W., 1890, p. 839. 



Type in British Museum. 



In Coll. Lyell there is a variety of the 2 in which the hind 

 wings have no yellow tinge, but are nearly concolorous with the 

 fore wings. 



v., iNIelbourne, Gisborne ; T., Hobart. 



81. Hydriomena trissophrica, n sp. 

 [rptcro-o^ptKos, three times rippled]. 



?, 36 mm. Head and palpi grey; palpi 2^. Antennae 

 fuscous. Thorax and abdomen grey, irrorated with whitish. 

 Legs whitish, irrorated with grey ; anterior pair fuscous, annu- 

 lated with ochreous-wliiti.sli. Fore wings broadly triangular; 

 Costa gently arched ; termen slightly bowed, moderately oblique ; 

 whitish, partly irrorated with ochreous-wliitish, with numerous 

 tine, wavy, dark fuscou.s, transverse lines ; median V)and whitish, 

 with a small, black, median, discal dot ; anterior edge slightly 

 angled outwards in mid-disc, from ^ costa to i dorsum ; outer 

 edge marked by a much waved dark line, somewhat indented 

 beneath costa, with a prominent double median projection, from 

 I costa to f dorsum ; preceded by two much waved lines in 

 band ; followed towaixls costa by a whitish mark ; a distinct 

 slightly wavy, whitisli, suljteiiiiinal line ; an interrupted, tine, 

 blackish, terminal line ; cilia grey, apices paler. Hind wings 

 with termen crenulate ; whitish-grey, becoming whitish towards 

 costa; three very obscure darker transverse lines from inner 

 margin; an obscure, pale, subtermihal line; an interrupted 

 lilackish terminal line; cilia whitish, mixed with dark fuscous. 

 Underside whitish ; with blackish discal dots and subterminal 

 band on both wings, the latter interrupted in middle ; fore wing 

 also with a blackish postmedian band strongly outwardly angled. 



Mr. Meyrick's tabulation falls with H. orthropis, from which 

 it diflfers in the whitish median l)and. 



Type in Coll. Lyell. 



T., Mt. Wellington, in Fel)ruary ; one specimen. 



82. HydriomeiNA orthropis. 



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Hydriomena orthropis, Meyr. P.L.S. N.S.W., 1890, p. 8 



N.S.W., Mt. Kosciusko. /A"^^^^* ''^\'5^ 



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