252 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from 



Melissoblaptes sordidella, Walk. 

 Gyrtona sordidella, Walk., Suppl., 1723. 



? , 24 rum. Head, palpi, and thorax greyish-ochreous suffusedly 

 irrorated with dark fuscous. Antennas fuscous, ringed with paler. 

 Abdomen ochreous-whitish, segments suffused with grey except on 

 margins. Legs dark fuscous, apex of joints ochreous-whitish, 

 posterior pair suffused with ochreous-whitish. Fore wings elongate, 

 suboblong, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, hind margin 

 rather obliquely rounded ; fuscous, somewhat sprinkled irregularly 

 with ochreous-whitish, and coarsely irrorated with black ; an 

 obscure darker fascia near before and parallel to first line ; lines 

 thick, cloudy, dark fuscous; first from two-fifths of costa to before 

 middle of inner margin, somewhat curved ; second from close 

 beyond middle of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, rather 

 sinuate inwards beneath costa, almost rectangularly angulated in 

 middle ; a dark fuscous discal dot between them ; a cloudy darker 

 band between second line and hind margin, parallel to second line ; 

 a hind-marginal row of small dark fuscous subconfiuent spots ; 

 cilia fuscous, with ochreous-whitish and black points. Hind wings 

 whitish-fuscous, somewhat darker posteriorly ; a fuscous hind- 

 marginal line interrupted by whitish-ochreous dots; cilia whitish- 

 fuscous. 



Blackheath (3500 feet), New South Wales ; one speci- 

 men in February. 



Melissoblaptes eegidia, n. s. 



S $ , 23 — 32 mm. Head, palpi, antenna?, and thorax light 

 grey ; antennae in male quite naked. Abdomen grey-whitish. 

 Legs grey. Fore wings elongate, suboblong, costa rather strongly 

 arched, apex round-pointed, hind margin rather strongly oblique, 

 almost straight ; light grey, with a few fine scattered black scales ; 

 basal area somewhat mixed with light brown-reddish and black 

 scales, especially in male; lines subdentate, blackish, somewhat 

 mixed with light brown-reddish ; first from two-fifths of costa to 

 middle of inner margin, somewhat curved outwards, rather thick, 

 towards inner margin slender ; second from three-fourths of costa 

 to three-fourths of inner margin, slender, moderately bent out v. a nix 

 above middle ; some reddish scales towards hind margin, especially 

 in male ; cilia grey-whitish, somewhat mixed with reddish, with 

 two dark grey lines. Hind wings pale grey, ochreous-tinged ; cilia 

 whitish-grey. Under surface of fore wings in male with disc 

 wholly fulvous 1 . 



