of the Australian Pijralidina. 423 



Platiiptilia emissalis, Walk. 

 PlatyptUm emissalis, Walk., 930. 



(^,5, 17—22 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen fiiscous or 

 dark fiiscous, mixed with whitish, face usually suffused with red- 

 dish ochreous; fi-outal tuft short, conical. Palpi light ochreous, 

 irrorated with reddish ochreous. Antennse fuscous. Legs fuscous, 

 tarsal joints broadly whitish towards base. Fore wings cleft from 

 two-thirds, segments rather broad, 1st segment slightly dilated, 

 hind margin subconcave, oblique, 2nd segment rather strongly 

 dilated, hind margin gently rounded, oblique; ochreous-brown, 

 sometimes suffused with fuscous, and more or less mixed with 

 whitish scales, sometimes forming oblique stri« ; a small dark 

 fuscous spot on submedian fold at one-fourth, and another beneath 

 costa before middle, both sometimes obsolete ; a triangular dark 

 fuscous blotch on costa at two-thirds, apex resting on base of cleft, 

 anterior side suffused, posterior side tolerably defined ; a rather 

 broad dark fuscous fascia (sometimes not much darker than gi'ouud 

 colour) crossing both segments above base, posteriorly bounded by 

 a straight whitish line ; hind margin suffusedly darker ; costal ciha 

 dark fuscous, between blotches and before apex white ; rest of cilia 

 whitish, on hind margin with a sharp black basal hne, on inner 

 margin with a small spot of black scales at two-thhds. Hind 

 wings cleft firstly from middle, secondly fi-om near base, 1st 

 segment gradually dilated throughout, apex equilateral-triangular, 

 2nd segment moderately dilated, hind margin straight, very oblique, 

 3rd segment linear ; fuscous ; cilia hght greyish, with a short black 

 line at base on apex of 1st segment, 3rd segment with some small 

 short black scales scattered along inner margin, especially towards 

 base, and three or four inconspicuous fine black hair-scales at two- 

 thirds. 



Southern specimens are more deeply coloured and 

 somewhat larger than northern. 



Toowoomba, Queensland; Sydney, Bathurst, Glen 

 Innes, and Mount Kosciusko (up to 6000 feet), New 

 South Wales ; Mount Wellington, Tasmania. Common 

 from September to January. 



Platyptilia Ilaasti, Feld. 



Platifptilus Haasti, Feld., Reis. Nov., pi. cxl., 58 ; 

 *Meyr., Trans. N. Z. Inst., 1884, 128. 



Distributed throughout New Zealand. 



