Au.sfraUiin Lepidoptera. 265 



Type in Coll. Rothschild. 



v., (Jisborne, Birchip, in JNTarch and July (Lyell) ; T., Hobart. 



100. Hydriomkna plesia, n. sp. 

 [tt Alberto?, neighbouring, akin]. 



^ ?, 20-24 nnij. Head dai-k fuscous. Palpi 2, densely scaled; 

 dark fuscous, bases beneath whitish. Antennae fuscous ; in J" 

 slightly dentate, ciliations |. Thorax dark fuscous irrorated with 

 grey. Abdomen dark fuscous mixed in 3' with brownish, in ? 

 with grey ; a pair of blackish dots on dorsum of each segment. 

 Legs fuscous, irrorated, and tarsi annulated with whitish. Fore 

 wings with costa scarcely arched, termen bowed, wavy, oblique ; 

 in c? brownish, in 2 whitish with obscui'e fuscous oblique lines ; 

 a small fuscous basal patch containing obscure darker lines ; its 

 margin rounded, oblique from ^ costa to neai- base of dorsum ; a 

 fuscous median band, in ? paler and with oblique fuscous lines, 

 with a blackish median discal dot ; anterior edge concave ; 

 postei'ior edge with a projecting tooth beneath costa, and another 

 more prominent in mid-disc, in <? with minute white dots on 

 veins; an obscure pale subterminal line in 3' with minute white 

 dots on veins ; an interrupted dark fuscous terminal line ; cilia 

 dark fuscous ; apices whitish, mixed with fuscous. Hind wings 

 with termen lounded, dentate, fuscous, with obscure fine darker 

 transverse lines ; an interrupted blackish terminal line ; cilia as 

 fore wings. 



In Meyrick's tabulation this falls \w'tt\\ H. rhynchota, from 

 which it differs in the absence of white fasciae limiting median 

 band of fore wings. At first sight it might be confused with H. 

 squamulata, but the palpi, not to mention other points, are very 

 different. 



Type in Coll. Lyell. 



v., Gisborne, in Ft^bruary and March ; three specimens 

 received from Mr. G. Lyell. 



101. Hydkiomkna loxocvma, n. sp. 

 [Ao^oKv/xo?, obliquely waved]. 

 $ , 20-24 mm. Head dark fuscous, on crown irrorated with 

 whitish. Palpi short {^\) ', dark fuscous. Antennae dark 



