434 Mr. E. Meyrick on the classification 



Paraponyx marmorea, n. s. 

 $ > 17 — 19 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous, irrorated 

 with whitish. Palpi with 2nd joint with long rough projecting 

 hairs beneath, terminal joint short, pointed, partly concealed; 

 dark fuscous mixed with whitish. Antennae pale gi-eyish ochreous. 

 Legs whitish ochreous, anterior pair suffusedly spotted with dark 

 fuscous on joints. Fore wings very elongate-triangular, costa 

 posteriorly gently arched, apex rounded, hind margin obliquely 

 rounded ; ochreous, more or less entirely suffused with fuscous ; a 

 narrow curved whitish fascia before one-fom-th ; an obscure whitish 

 dark-bordered hne before middle, irregularly sinuate in disc ; an 

 indistinct whitish line from three-fourths of costa to beyond middle 

 of inner margin, obscurely double in disc above middle, upper half 

 strongly sinuate inwards, in middle rectangularly bent inwards to 

 middle of disc, thence again rectangularly bent to inner margin ; 

 the narrow median space between this and preceding line more or 

 less obscurely whitish, only distinctly white on a costal spot beyond 

 first line, a subquadrate spot in angle of second line more yellow- 

 ochreous ; an irregular ill-defined white subterminal fascia, sinuate 

 inwards at one-third and two-thirds ; cilia grey-whitish, with two 

 fuscous lines and a subbasal blackish line. Hind wings whitish, 

 with fuscous markings ; a small spot on inner margin near base ; 

 a larger subtriangular spot on middle of inner margin, posterior 

 edge closely followed by a parallel line ; an irregular roundish 

 ochreous dark-margined discal spot; second line white, dark- 

 margined, fi-om two-thirds of costa to touch first line on inner 

 margin, forming a rounded-angular projection outwards above 

 middle ; beyond second line ground colour fuscous, with an irregular 

 whitish subterminal fascia, projecting inwards in middle to touch 

 angle of second line ; cilia as in fore wings. 



Distinguished from all other species by the ochreous 

 dark-margined discal spot of liind wings. 



Duaringa, Queensland ; Sydney, New South Wales ; 

 six specimens in February. 



Paraponyx nitens, Butl. 



Paraponyx nitens, Butl., Cist. Ent., ii., 556 ; Hvqraula 

 nitens, Meyr., Trans. N. Z. Inst., 1884, 122. 



The genus Hygraula cannot be maintained ; I failed 

 at first to discover ocelli in this species, but afterwards 

 proved their existence ; they are usually concealed in 

 the male, but tolerably distinct in the female. 



