BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER. 75 



Abdomen dark-fuscous with a median dorsal series of 

 ochreous spots ; tuft ochreous, apices of hairs white. Legs 

 whitish-ochreous ; tarsi dark-fuscous annulated with ochreous. 

 Forewings rather narrowly triangular, costa straight except 

 close to base and apex, apex round-pointed, termen bowed, 

 slightly oblique ; shining white with a very few ochreous 

 and dark fuscous scales ; a dark-fuscous discal spot beneath 

 costa Sit '^- ; a dark-fuscous thick strongly sinuate line finely 

 edged with ochreous from | costa to f dorsum ; a sub- 

 terminal and a terminal series of pale-ochreous dots ; cilia 

 white. Hindwings with termen rounded ; ochreous ; a 

 median fuscous discal dot, followed by a transverse fuscous 

 line ; a subterminal series of Avhite spots preceded by a 

 slight fuscous irroration ; cilia white. 



Type in Coll. Illidge. 



W.A., Cunderdin in November ; one specimen taken 

 by Mr. R. Illidge. 



Fam. PYRALlDiE. 

 Subfam. Crambinse. 



SEDENIA MESOCHORDA n. SJ). 



pieaoxogdo;, with median chord. 



^ . 22 mm. Head whitish with a central pale-fuscous 

 line. Palpi pale fuscous. Antennse whitish ; in ^ moder- 

 ately ciliated (1). Thorax whitish, a central line, tegulae, 

 and patagia pale-fuscous. Abdomen whitish, towards base 

 ochreous. Legs fuscous ; posterior pair whitish. Fore- 

 wings triangular, costa sinuate, slightly excavated in middle, 

 apex round-pointed, termen sUghtly oblique, straight, 

 rounded beneath ; whitish, densely suffused with pale 

 fuscous ; a median whitish streak from base to end of cell ; 

 cilia white with a pale-fuscous median line. Hindwings 

 with termen rounded ; whitish ; faintly suffused with 

 fuscous along apical portion of termen ; cilia white. 



Type in Coll. Drake. 



v., Beaconfield (1,000 ft.), near Melbourne, in 

 January ; one specimen taken by Dr. W. E. Drake. 



Subfam. Schoenobianse. 



Gen. NIPHOPYRALIS. 



Niphopyralis, Hmps., 111. Het., ix. p. 181 ; P.Z.S., 1895, 

 p. 901. 



