148 AUSTRALIAN THYRIDIDAE AND PYRILIDAE 



N.Q., Kurantla, Townsville, Mackay ; Q., Bundaberg, 

 Brisbane, Stradbroke I., Southport, Stanthorpe ; N.8.W., 

 Newcastle, Sydney, Kiama, Moruya. 



ft EPICROCIS AMAURA. 



Oligachroa amaura, Low., P.L.S.N.S.W. 1901, p. 662. 

 Q., Brisbane. 



f EPICROCIS DIGRAMMELLA. 



Peynpclia dirframmeUa, Meyr, P.L.S.N.S.W. 1880, p. 223. 

 N.S.W., Sydney. 



ft EPICROCIS MESEMBRINA. 



Epicrocis mesembrina, Meyr, Tr. E.S., 1887, p. 259. 

 W.A., Albany. 



EPICROCIS FESTIVELLA. 



Epicrocis festivella, Zel. Isis., 1848, p. 878. Hraps. Mothg 

 Ind. iv., p. 87. 



N.Q., Townsville. Q., Nambour, Brisbane. Also from 

 Java, Ceylon, India and Africa. 



EPICROCIS SATURATELLA. 



snturntella , Mab. 



N.Q., Thursday Island, Townsville. 



ft EPICROCIS AEGNALIS. 



Pijralis? aegnusalis, Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat., xix., p. 905. 

 Cant/ielea aegnalis, Meyr, Tr., E.S., 1887, p. 254. 

 N.Q. . Also from Sumatra, Ceylon, 



India, China and Madagascar. 



EPICROCIS ORTHOZONA. 



Nephopteriix orthozona, Low., Ti*. R.S.S.A., 1903, p. 53. 



(J $ 19-20 w\w\. Head and thorax pale-grey. Labial 

 palpi pale-grey ; second joint irrorated with dark fuscous 

 anteriorly ; slender, recurved, not reaching vertex, alike in both 

 sexes. Antennae grey ; in ^ with a small notch on upper 

 surface some distance beyond basal joint, no tuft of scales, 

 serrate, with short ciliations (^). Abdomen pale grey. Legs 

 whitish ; anterior pair, tarsi, and an oblique subterminal band 

 on mid-tibiae dark fuscous. Forewings elongate-triangular, 

 eosta gently arched, apex round pointed, terraen rounded, 

 oblique ; grey mixed with whitish with a very few scattered 

 blackish scales ; a fine outwardly curved blackish line from -f 

 costa to mid-dorsum ; a similar slightly sigmoid line from ^ 

 costa to tornus ; midway between these lines towards costa is an 

 oblique oval grey spot ; a series of blackish terminal dots ; cilia 

 pale-grey with fine whitish irroration. Hindwings with termen 

 rounded ; whitish ; termen greyish tinged ; cilia whitish. 



