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XVI. Descriptions of New Lepidoptera from Australia 
and New Zealand. By HEpwarp Meyrick, B.A., 
LNe/MSES Caldas 
u L -v , 86 . 
[Read Nov. 3rd, 1897. ] 
Tue following descriptions are in most instances drawn 
up from specimens taken by Messrs. J. A. Kershaw, 
G. V. Hudson, the late Geo. Barnard, and several other 
esteemed Australian correspondents, and liberally com- 
municated by them to me; the types are in my 
collection, but the collectors usually possess similar 
examples. 
I. AtsTrRALtiaAN LepiporreRa. 
CARADRINIDA. 
Sub-fam. POLIADES. 
Orrsosta, Ochs. 
O. horologa, sp. n. 
¢ 33mm. Forewings rather dark fuscous, slightly purplish- 
tinged, somewhat mixed with lighter brown ; a white discal dot 
before first line, and several on costa posteriorly ; first and second 
lines paler, iuternally partly blackish-edged, white-mixed towards 
extremities, clear white on costa ; orbicular and reniform brownish, 
edged with white and outlined with black, posterior edge of reni- 
form very acutely indented in middle ; claviform partly blackish- 
outlined ; interneural black streaks between reniform and termen; 
subterminal line partly whitish, interrupted. Hindwings whitish- 
fuscous, becoming white towards base, fuscous towards termen ; 
cilia white, with a fuscous subbasal line. 
Melbourne, Victoria; one specimen, but I have seen a 
second. 
Sub-fam. MHLANCHRIDES, 
Metiana, Curt. 
M. xylogramma, sp. n. 
6 25mm. Antennal ciliations long (3). Forewings greyish- 
ochreous, suffasedly streaked with ochreous-whitish, with a few 
scattered black scales, median vein whiter ; a darker fuscous-mixed 
TRANS, ENT. SCC. LOND. 1897.—parT Iv. (DEC.) 
