Aiidrididn Jjepkloptera. 275 



(? 2, li5-2S mm. Head and thorax vvliitish, mixed with dark 

 fuscous. Face and palpi dark fuscous ; palpi \\. Antennae 

 whitish-grey ; pectinations 9-10. Abdomen whitish, mixed with 

 (lark fuscous, with a double dorsal series of dark dots. Legs 

 d.u'k fuscous annulated with whitish ; in posterior pair mostly 

 whitish. Fore wings with costa scarcely arciied, termen 

 rounded, oblique ; white ; with numerous oblique slightly waved 

 dark fuscous lines ; a small, dark fuscous basal patch, followed by 

 two or three lines ; a median band, mostly fuscous ; anterior 

 margin from costa at -i to inner margin at 'i, nearly straight ; 

 posterior border from costa at 4 to inner margin at 4, nearly 

 straight ; closely followed by a tine parallel line ; two well 

 marked subterminal lines, and a well marked submarginal line, 

 all parallel; a very distinct blackish terminal line, inter- 

 rupted at veins ; cilia white, with a few dai-k fuscous scales. 

 Hind wings white ; with four slightly waved dark fuscous 

 transverse lines from inner margin, becoming lost in disc ; 

 subterminal, submarginal, terminal lines, and cilia as in fore 

 wings. 



Mr. Meyrick was unacquainted with this species. 



T., Hobart ; V., Mt. Erica (Lyell). 



126. Xantiiorhok dascia, n. sp. 

 [Sa(r/<to?, dai'kj. 



Xanthorhoe extensata, Meyr. P.L.S. N.S.W., 1890, p. 867; 

 wcWlk., Brit. Mus. Cat., xxiv., p. 1195. 



3 2, 22-26 mm. Head blackish, with a few whitish scales on 

 crown. Palpi \\ ; blackish. Thorax and abdomen l)lackish 

 irrorated with whitish. Legs dark fuscous annulated with 

 whitish : posterior pair mostly whitish. Fore wings with costa 

 scarcely arched ; termen bowed, oblique ; wliitish with blackish 

 lines and median band, the dark colour preponderating ; an 

 ill-detined dark ba.sal patch ; anterior edge of median band 

 from 1 costa to 1 dorsum, slightly waved ; posterior edge from 

 n costa to § dorsum slightly indented beneath costa, witli a short 

 obtuse median projection ; followed by several tine parallel dark 

 lines ; subterminal line whitish, crenulate ; an interrupted black 

 terminal line ; cilia whitish, with a blackish median line ; apices 



