'240 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralid inn from 



obtusely bent to inner margin at three-fifths, preceded and followed 

 by a more or less perceptible white irroration, especially towards 

 costa ; an indistinct dark fuscous dot beneath costa before middle, 

 and a small subquadrate discal spot obscurely outlined with cloudy 

 blackish beyond middle; a hind-marginal row of cloudy blackish 

 dots ; cilia light greyish-ochreous, with two grey lines. Hind 

 wings pale greyish-ochreous, irregularly irrorated with fuscous ; 

 an obscure fuscous discal dot, sometimes obsolete; second line 

 fuscous, formed as in fore wings ; cilia ochreous-whitish, with a 

 grey line near base. 



Carnarvon, West Australia ; four specimens in October. 



Eurycreon strangalota, n. s. 



cf , 19 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous, irrorated with 

 whitish-ochreous ; frontal projection rounded. Palpi dark fuscous, 

 beneath white towards base. Antennas greyish-ochreous, ciliations 

 one-half. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous, irrorated with dark 

 fuscous on sides of back, segmental margins white. Legs greyish- 

 ochreous suffused with dark fuscous, apex of joints whitish, 

 posterior tibiae whitish. Fore wings elongate-triangular, costa 

 gently arched on posterior half, apex obtuse, hind margin very 

 obliquely rounded; pale whitish-fuscous, coarsely irrorated with 

 dark fuscous ; first and second lines strongly marked, irregular, 

 blackish ; first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner 

 margin, somewhat angulated in middle ; second from three-fourths 

 of costa, somewhat indented above middle, near above anal angle 

 abruptly bent in upwards to beneath discal spot, thence again 

 abruptly curved round to two-thirds of inner margin ; a small 

 round pale spot strongly outlined with blackish beneath costa 

 near beyond first line, and a transverse-oblong pale discal spot 

 strongly outlined with blackish beyond middle ; a blackish dot on 

 costa above discal spot ; a cloudy irregular blackish hind-marginal 

 line ; cilia grey- whitish, with a cloudy dark grey line tending to be 

 interrupted and to form bars, costal cilia whitish witb two cloudy 

 blackish dots between second line and apex. Hind wings with 

 colour, second and hind-marginal lines, and cilia as in fore wings ; 

 a narrow transverse strongly marked blackish discal spot before 

 middle. 



Bathurst, New South Wales ; one specimen, in March. 

 Allied to E. capnochroa ; differs by the larger size, pale 

 centre of subcostal spot beyond first line, reduction of 

 subquadrate ante-apical spots of costa to cloudy dots, 



