70 T ran fraction ^. 



Leucania Ussoxyla n. sp. 



ci". 38 mm. Head light brown. Antciinal shaft grey, becoming whitish 

 towards base, pectinations a 4, h?>, terminating bristles minute. Thorax 

 clothed with hairs, pale ochreous, more brownish anteriorly. Abdomen 

 whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate-triangular, apex rounded-obtuse, ter- 

 men rounded, rather oblique ; light brown ; vein \h, upper and lower mar- 

 gins of cell, and veins 2-4, 6-8, and apical third of vein 5 marked with lines 

 of mixed blackish and whitish scales ; faint streaks of pale-ochreous suffu- 

 sion beneath cell and between veins 5 and 6 : cilia pale ochreous, tinged 

 with brownish towards base, tips whitish. Hind wings grey ; cilia whitish- 

 ochreous, tips whitish. 



Mount Arthur tableland, 4,000 ft., in February (Hudson) : one speci- 

 men, but Mr. Hudson has a second (2) from same locality. Closely allied 

 to unica and ioroneura, but these three species are undoubtedly distinct, 

 the structure of antennae in (^ being different in each — viz., nnicn, pecti- 

 nations a 2, & 1|, terminating cilia long, shaft ochreous-whitish ; tnronenra, 

 pectinations a 3, i 2, terminating cilia moderate, shaft wholly white : Us- 

 soxyla, as described above. 



Hyssia Gn. 



T think this genus may be adopted as defined in Hampson's Catalogue, 

 vol. 5, p. 278. 



Hyssia inconstans Butl. 



One female specimen received from Mr. A. Philpott, taken at Welling- 

 ton in November. I have carefully compared it with the original type, 

 and it is undoubtedly identical, and a good species. The second example 

 ((J), however, referred to by Sir G. Hampson is in my judgment certainly 

 only a male of moderata, and therefore the male characters assigned by him 

 must be disregarded, and the true male remains to be discovered. The 

 species appears to be scarce, but the group is so difficult, owing to the 

 similarity of the species, that it may be overlooked. 



Hyssia falsidica n. sp. 



$. 43 mm. Head whitish mixed with grey and blackish. Thorax grev 

 mixed with whitish. Abdomen ochreous-grey-whitish. Forewings rather 

 elongate-triangular, apex obtuse, termen slightly waved, obliquely rounded ; 

 fuscous-grey, mostly overlaid with white suffusion ; subbasal line cloudy, 

 dark fuscous, not reaching dorsum ; first and second lines indistinctly 

 margined with dark-fuscous irroration, first slightly curved, second waved, 

 strongly curved outwards on upper | ; median shade of dark-fuscous irro- 

 ration, bent near costa ; orbicular-suboval, whitish, edged laterally with 

 dark fuscous ; reniform whitish, lower third fuscous-grey edged with whitish : 

 anterior edge of subtermiiuil line formed by a waved shade of dark-fuscous 

 irroration. Hindwings fuscous. 



Mount Arthur tableland, in February (Hudson) ; one specimen, in 

 rather poor condition. Mr. Hudson possesses others, also poor, but the 

 species seems sufficiently distinct. 



HYDRIO:\rENIDAE. 



Tatosoma Butl. 



I am indebted to Mr. A. Philpott for calling my attention to the fact 

 that two (or, as I find on examination, three) species have been confused 



