BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER, M.D., F.E.S. 197 



MACALLA EBENINA, H. Sp. 



€'/3ei'ivo9, black like ebony. 



J $ 82-36 TTI,1T[. Head, thorax, palpi and antennal 

 processes blackish, with a few ochreous-whitish scales. Antennae 

 dark fuscous; in 3' simple, shortly ciliated (i). Abdomen 

 ochreous-whitish, irrorated with dark fuscous. Legs, dark 

 fuscous, irrorated and annulated with whitish. Forewings 

 triangular, costa scarcely arched, apex rounded, termen slightly 

 rounded, moderately oblique ; blackish finely irrorated with 

 whitish scales, which are sometimes reddish-tinged ; a whitish 

 dentate, outwardly curved line from f costa to f dorsum ; cilia 

 ochreous-whitish barred with dark fuscous. Hindwings with 

 termen rounded ; whitish, with a broad suffused fuscous 

 terminal band ; cilia whitish with a fuscous line at ^. 



In coloration resembles Kpijjaacliia vostigeralis, but the ^ 

 lacks the costal gland, and has structurally different palpi and 

 antennae. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



Q., Brisbane, in February ; two specimens. 



Gen. 29. Epipaschia. 



Epipaschia, Clem., Proc. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1860, p. 14- 

 Meyr., Tr. E.S. 1887, p. 187. 



EPIPASCHIA FUNEREA. 



Acrohasis fiinerea , Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat. xxvii., p. 31. 

 Catamola funerea, Meyr., Tr. E.S., 1884, p. 65. 

 Q., Brisbane, Southport ; N.S.W., Glen Innes, Sydney ; V., 

 Melbourne; S.A., Ardrossan ; W.A., Perth. 



t EPIPASCHIA PYRASTIS. 



Stericta pijmstis, Meyr., Tr. E.S. 1887, p. 190. 

 Q., Brisbane ; N.S.W., Newcastle. 



EPIPASCHIA SABURALIS. 



Pyralis ! saburalis, Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat. xix., p. 914. 



Aatrapometis saburalis, Meyr., Tr. E.S. 1884, p. 67. 

 Hmps., Tr. E.S. 1896, p. 861. 



In two out of three specimens which I have examined 

 veins 4 and 5 of the hindwings are stalked ; both Meyrick and 

 Hampson state them to be separate. In all three examples 

 vein 7 of hindwings anastomoses very shortly with 8. 



N.S.W., Sydney ; V., Melbourne, Gisborne. 



t EPIPA.SCHIA PICTA. 



Stericta picta, Warr., A.M.N.H. (6) xvi., p. 461 (1895). 

 Queensland. 



