Metkick. — Xotes aiul Dcscri iifions of X.Z. I.eindoptera. 73 



Xanthorhoe prymiiaea n. sp, 



J ?. 32-35 mm. Ifead and thorax yellow-oclireous, shoulders mixed 

 Avith ferruginous and dark fuscous. Antennal pectinations in (^ a 6, b i. 

 Ahdomen ochreous - yellowisli. Forewings triangular, costa posteriorly 

 moderately arched, apex obtuse, termeu waved, rounded, oblique ; ochreous- 

 yellow : a small basal patch formed by three or four more or less marked 

 strongly curved red-brown striae, marked with black on costa ; median 

 band enclosed by fasciae formed of one inner and two confluent outer rather 

 waved dark red-brown striae marked with black on costa and on edges of 

 band, sometimes connected below middle, anterior fascia narrow, somewhat 

 irregularly curved, posterior moderately broad, dark and strongly marked 

 posteriorly and somewhat edged with whitish suffusion, median third forming 

 a broad obtuse double prominence, these fasciae in $ little marked except 

 on edges of band ; a black discal dot between these fasciae, space round 

 it somewhat whitish-tinged ; terminal area more or less tinged or striated 

 with red-brown, including a slender waved white subterminal line edged 

 anteriorly with fuscous suffusion, with an obliqu^e subapical patch of dark 

 -suffusion : cilia crimson -fuscous, outer half barred with dark fuscous alter- 

 nating with paler suffusion. Hiiidwings with termen rounded ; ochreous- 

 yellow : a small lin.ear dark-grey discal dot ; traces of two or three short 

 grey strigae on dorsum ; a fine dark-fuscous terminal line : cilia crimson- 

 grey, indistinctly darker-barred. 



Mount Arthur tableland, common in limestone valleys, 3,600—1,200 ft., 

 in February (Hudson) ; five specimens. 



Pterophoridae. 

 Platyptilia epotis Meyr. 



Mr. Hudson sends a o and $, taken in a swamp on the Mount Arthur 

 tableland in February. Tliese are more ochreous and less white than the 

 type, with apical oblique streak less marked and in one specimen nearly 

 obsolescent, but are certainly this species. At first sight they much resemble 

 lithoxesta, but may be easily distinguished by the patch of white on costal 

 <-ilia towards apex, and the black mark at base of terminal cilia on lower 

 angle of first segment, and also in same position on first segment of hind- 

 wings. It hardly seems natural to separate the two species generically, 

 but epolis shows slight traces of black scales in dorsal cilia of hindwings, 

 whilst lithoxesta certainly has none. 



TORTRICIDAE. 



Epichorista emphanes Meyr. 



o- 13 mm. Antennal ciliations 1^. Forewings without costal fold ; 

 deep ferruginous, crossed by numerous oblique irregular series of very small 

 subconfluent purplish-leaden-grc)^ spots, without defined markings, but 

 central fascia and costal patch sometimes indicated on costa. Hindwings 

 blackish. 



Mount Arthur tableland, 4,200 ft., in February ; two S, one V, sent 

 by Mr. Hudson as probably sexes of same species, which is doubtless correct ; 

 the o differs considerably in appearance from the $, and has not been pre- 

 viously d':'scribed. 



