384. Mr. E. Meyrick on New Lepidoptera 
hair-pencil, in Q@ somewhat shorter than second, acute, posteriorly 
with broad dense projecting tuft of scales. Thorax and abdomen 
without crests. Posterior tibiz loosely scaled above. Hindwings : 
5 approximated to 4 towards base. 
Probably with some affinity to Rhapsa. 
H. octias, sp. n. 
¢é 2 25-30 mm. Head and thorax light greyish-ochreous, 
sometimes sprinkled with dark fuscous. Forewings with termen 
obtusely angulated on 4, subconcave above this; pale greyish- 
ochreous, sprinkled with brownish and dark fuscous ; first and 
second lines fine, dark fuscous, waved-dentate, more or less in- 
terrapted ; median shade nearly straight, fuscous or dark fuscous, 
strongest in ¢ ; orbicular represented by a minute whitish dot 
edged with red-brown ; reniform mixed with red-brown, partially 
finely edged with whitish, and outlined with red-brown ; sub- 
terminal line obscurely pale, on lower half faintly dark-edged but 
almost obsolete except on dorsum, on upper half irregularly edged 
with red-brown or blackish, more broadly anteriorly ; a terminal 
row of blackish dots: cilia on upper half of termen barred with 
dark fuscous. Hindwings whitish-fuscous, more whitish towards 
costa ; median and second lines as in forewings, but median 
faint ; subterminal margined with fuscous or dark fuscous. 
Wellington (G. V. Hudson); also from Richmond 
River and Sydney, New South Wales, and from Victoria ; 
in October, four specimens. This is, I think, Australian 
in origin. 
HY DRIOMENID:. 
Microprs, Guen. 
M. epicryptis, sp. n. 
6 2 21-22 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous. Palpi 6, 
whitish-ochreous sprinkled with dark fuscous. Forewings with 
costa strongly arched, termen unevenly bowed, very oblique ; 
whitish-ochreous, more whitish on dorsal half, somewhat deeper 
and sometimes infuscated towards costa, with some scattered 
black scales ; a median longitudinal streak of clear pale ground- 
colour ; second line indicated by a strongly curved series of black 
dots on veins: cilia ochreous-whitish.  Hindwings considerably 
narrowed ; ochreous-grey-whitish; in @ with area of cell 
