264 Froceedmgs of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



98. Hydriomena ahachnitis, n. sp. 

 [apayQ/y], a spider]. 



Hydriomena arachnitis, Meyr. M.S. 



$, 22 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen whitish, irrorated 

 with dark fuscous. Palpi 3 ; whitish, irrorated with dark 

 fuscous ; at base white. Antennae grey. Legs fuscous, iri'orated 

 with whitish. Fore wings elongate triangular, costa straight, 

 slightly arched towards apex ; apex acute, slightly produced, 

 termen wavy, l)Owed, oblique ; whitish-grey, irrorated with 

 dark fuscous, which forms numerous fine wavy obliquely trans- 

 verse lines ; a blackish discal dot ; a fine blackish terminal 

 line ; cilia whitish, with a median grey line. Hind wings 

 with termen crenulate, only slightly rounded ; colour and 

 markings as fore wings, but discal dot obsolete, and lines distinct 

 only towards inner margin. 



Readily distinguished from H. severata by the longer palpi. 

 It is also not unlike the female of Melitulias glandulata, Gn., 

 from which it may be distinguished by the absence of ochreous 

 colouring and dark oblique subapical streak. 



v., Gisborne ; one specimen in April received from Mr. G. 

 Lyell. 



99. Hydriomena squamulata. 



Camptogramma squamulata, Warr. Nov. Zool., 1899, p. 341. 



(? ?, 18-24 mm. Head and palpi dark fuscous ; palpi slender 

 (1-1;^). Antennae fuscous; in <? shortly laminate, ciliations |. 

 Thorax and abdomen dark fuscous, irrorated with grey-whitish. 

 Legs dark fuscous irrorated with grey-whitish. Fore wings 

 with costa gently arched, termen wavy, very slightly sinuate, 

 oblique ; dark fuscous mixed with grey-whitish, tending to 

 form numerous obscure tine oblique dark and pale lines • median 

 band usually ill defined ; its posterior margin wavy, scarcely 

 angled ; sometimes a pale wavy subterminal line ; an interrupted 

 blackish terminal line ; cilia fuscous ; apices paler. Hind wings 

 with termen rounded, wavy, slightly excised between veins 4 and 

 6 ; colour and markings as fore wings. 



An obscure species. The excision of termen of hind wings 

 appears to be its best characteristic. 



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