184 AUSTRALIAN THYRIDIDAE AND PYRALIDAE 



lines of similar colour in mid-disc ; cilia with a dark-fuscou3 

 median line towards tornus. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q., Townsville, in September; two specimens received 

 from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



ENDOTRICHA HEMICAUSTA, W. Sp. 



rjjXLKavcrTo<;, half-burnt, scorched. 



S 18 in_iil.. Head, palpi and thorax whitish-ochreous 

 mixed with dark-fuscous and dull-purplish. Antennae grey- 

 whitish ; in J moderately ciliated (1). Abdomen dark-fuscous, 

 base and apex mostly dull-ochreous. Legs dark-fuscous mixed 

 with whitish-ochreous. Forewings triangular, costa straight 

 except just before apex, apex round-pointed, termen bowed, 

 oblique ; whitish-ochreous mixed with dark-fuscous and dull- 

 purplish ; costal edge dark-fuscous interrupted by pale dots ; a 

 dark triangular basal patch bounded by an indistinct pale some- 

 what dentate line from ^ costa to ^ dorsum ; a pale median area ; 

 posterior area much suffused with dark-fuscous ; an interrupted 

 dark-fuscous terminal line ; cilia (imperfect but apparently as in 

 hindwings). Hindwings with termen rounded; pale-ochreous ; 

 narrowly suffused near termen with reddish-purple ; an inter- 

 rupted dark-fuscous terminal line ; cilia whitish, bases purplish- 

 tinged, with a broad median fuscous line. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q., Townsville, in April ; one specimen received from 



Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Geyi. 3. Scenedra. 



Scenedra, Meyr., Tr. E.S. 1884, p. 75. Hmps., Tr. E.S. 

 1896, p. 486. 



scenedra decoratalis. 



Pijmlis decoratalis, Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat. xxxiv., p. 1242. 

 Pyralis i?) contentalis, Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat. xxxiv., p. 



1247. 



Scenedra decoratalis, Meyr., Tr. E.S. 1884, p. 76. 

 Q., Duaringa, Brisbane ; N.S.W., Newcastle, Sydney; V., 

 Melbourne. 



Gen. 4. Scenidiopis, nor. 



(TK-qvL^iov, a little tent ; from its resting with tilted wings. 



Frons smooth. Palpi upturned, short, not nearly reaching 

 vertex. Antennae of S ciliated. Patagia in 3 not elongated. 

 Middle tibiae in <? densely scaled. Forewings with vein 1 not 

 furcate at base, 4 and 5 separate and diverging from base ; 7, 



