248 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from 



base white. Fore wings elongate, subtriangular, costa almost 

 straight, apex rounded, hind margin rather obliquely rounded ; 

 glossy ochreous-grey, irrorated with grey-whitish ; cilia glossy 

 whitish-grey, with a faint darker line near base. Hind wings 

 whitish-grey, ochreous-tinged ; a somewhat darker very obscure 

 hind-marginal band ; cilia whitish, with a grey line. 



Mount Kosciusko (5000—6000 feet), New South 

 Wales ; four specimens, in January. 



CEAMBID.E, 



Diatiwea, Guild. 



Diatroea parramattella, Meyr. 



Chile parramattellus, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., 

 1878, 178. 



Calamotropha, Z. 

 Calamotropha dielota, Mey. 

 Also from Queensland (coll. Lucas). 



Ptochostola, Meyr. 



Ptocliostola microphceella, Walk. 



Crambus microplueellus, Walk., Suppl., 1758 ; Ptocho- 

 stola dimidiella, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., 

 1878, 190; ib., 1882, 154. 



Also from Brisbane, Queensland ; Bathurst and Black- 

 heath, New South Wales ; Melbourne, Victoria ; Laun- 

 ceston and Hobart, Tasmania ; Penola, South Australia; 

 Albany, West Australia ; from September to April. 

 By an error of observation I formerly recorded this 

 name of Walker's as a synonym of Crambus cuneiferellus. 



Thinasotia, Hein. 



Thinasotia claviferclla, Walk. 



Aquita claviferclla, Walk., Suppl., 1765 ; Aphomia 

 strigosa, Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, 398, 

 pi. xliii., 10; Crambus strigosus, Meyr., Trans. 

 N. Zeal. Inst., 1882, 31. 



Melbourne, Victoria ; Hobart, Tasmania ; besides the 

 recorded New Zealand localities. The distribution of 

 this species is quite exceptional. 



