from Australia and New Zealand. 38] 
portion of termen ; cilia submetallic whitish-grey with two darker 
grey lines, and a whitish subapical spot. Hindwings with vein 4 
present ; clear ochreous-yellow; base dark grey; second line 
indicated by some dark fuscous scales ; a dark fuscous terminal 
line; cilia whitish, with two grey lines. 
Melbourne, Victoria ; one specimen (J. A. Kershaw). 
PYRAUSTID. 
Psammoris, Hiib. 
P. trygoda, sp. n. 
6 19 mm. Head and thorax ochreous, mixed with dull 
purplish. Palpi 24, dark fuscous, base white. Antennal 
ciliations 3. Legs yellow-ochreous, anterior pair somewhat 
infuscated, middle pair white. Forewings triangular, termen 
bowed, oblique ; light dull purplish, becoming deeper purple 
terminally ; first and second lines cloudy, dark fuscons, first 
slightly bent in middle, second from #4 of costa to near termen 
below middle, thence moderately curved inwards to 4 of dorsum, 
on costa preceded and followed by bright orange-ochreous 
suffusion; a dark fuscous subcrescentic discal mark: cilia 
yellowish, towards base orange-ochreous. Hindwings with base 
of vein 8 much swollen; ochreous-yellow; a spot of purple 
suffusion on termen below middle ; cilia yellow. 
Brisbane, Queensland; one specimen (G. H. Raynor). 
This species differs from typical forms of the genus in 
the long antennal ciliations (a rare feature in the family), 
as well as in the dilated vein 8 of hindwings, and may 
therefore eventually require generic separation, bat at 
present there seems no necessity for it. 
Scoraria, Haw. 
S. oxygona, sp. n. 
¢ 2? 17-19 mm. Head and thorax whitish mixed with fuscous 
and dark fuscous. Palpi 24, grey mixed with black, base white. 
Antennal ciliations in ¢ 4+. Forewings very elongate-triangular 
(somewhat broader than in S. plag/otis), termen straight, oblique ; 
fuscous, irrorated with white, and irregularly coarsely irrorated 
with black, forming streaks on veins posteriorly ; first and second 
lines whitish, first obtusely angulated in middle, edged posteriorly 
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