246 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from 



white erect linear mark on inner margin at three -fourths ; cilia 

 dark fuscous. Hind wings light orange; a small dark fuscous 

 basal patch, narrowly extended along inner margin to anal angle ; 

 a moderate blackish hind-marginal border, its anterior edge semi- 

 circularly excavated on upper half, and rather prominent below 

 middle ; cilia dark fuscous, on inner margin pale yellowish. 



York, West Australia ; one specimen, in October, not 

 in very good condition ; it is immediately separated from 

 the other species with orange hind wings by the blackish 

 base. I have seen a second specimen, also West 

 Australian. 



Scoparia, Hw. 

 Scoparia threnodes, n. s. 



<$ ? j 15 — 17 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax blackish ; 

 palpi 2£, base white ; antennal ciliations of male one-half; thorax 

 with a forwards -angulated white transverse bar very near posterior 

 extremity. Abdomen whitish-grey, apex whitish-ochreous. Legs 

 blackish, apex of joints white. Fore wings elongate, triangular, 

 costa slightly arched, apex rounded, hind margin obliquely 

 rounded ; grey, coarsely irrorated with black and with some 

 scattered white scales, appearing almost blackish ; first line in- 

 distinct, whitish, posteriorly black-margined, somewhat curved ; 

 orbicular and claviform roundish, black-margined but hardly 

 traceable, touching first line ; reniform 8-shaped, black-margined, 

 tolerably distinct except beneath, often connected with costa by a 

 whitish suffusion ; second line very indistinct, whitish, anteriorly 

 black-margined ; subterminal line rather broad, cloudy, white, 

 more or less distinct, almost touching second line in middle ; an 

 irregular white marginal line ; cilia grey, with a blackish line near 

 base, narrowly barred with white, extreme tips white. Hind 

 wings 1\ ; pale grey, towards hind margin somewhat darker, with 

 a faint post-median line ; cilia grey-whitish, with a grey line. 



Perth, West Australia ; five specimens, in November. 

 Nearest to S. anthracias, from which it differs by the 

 white thoracic marking, traceable white lines of fore 

 wings, and other points. In my tabulation it falls under 

 the same head with S. chalicodes, from which it differs 

 widely by the dense black irroration. 



Scoparia chiasta, Meyr. 

 Also from Melbourne, Victoria. 



