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Descriptions of NK^^^ Australian 

 Heterocera. 



By Oswald B. Lower, F.E.S. 



[Read October 17, 1S93.] 



MOXOCTENIAD.E. 



Epidesmia brachygrammella, n. sp. 



Male, 40 mm. Head, thorax, legs, abdomen and jDalpi pale 

 ochreous-fuscous ; palpi four times the width of eye, beneath 

 fuscous ; pectinations of antenna? five. Forewings triangular, 

 costa arched at base?, thence almost straight, apex slightly pro- 

 duced ; hindmargin slightly sinuate beneath apex, thence bowed 

 oblique ; liglit greyish-ochreous, costal edge somewhat yellowisli 

 throughout ; a thick black nearly straight streak from inner- 

 margin at one-third to middle of disc with a tooth or angulation 

 posteriorly ; a similar black streak from two-thirds of inner- 

 margin to three-fourths across wing, curved inwards on lower 

 half, and outwards on upj^er half, with indications of an anterior 

 tooth, almost reaching tooth of previous streak ; a black discal 

 dot midway between these above middle ; a row of black, paler 

 edged dots from costa near apex to anal angle, between dots and 

 last mentioned streak the ground-colour is clearer ochreous ; a 

 hindmarginal row of small black clots; cilia greyish-ochreous. 

 Hindwings with hindmargin nearly straight, apex somewhat 

 prominent ; colour as in forewings, somewhat infuscated ; a 

 large suffused blackish discal dot in middle of wing ; a faint 

 suffused fuscous line beyond this cilia as in forewdngs. 



One specimen from Mr. W. H. F. Hill, of AYindsor, Victoria, 

 taken at Croydon, Victoria. Nearest U. Iiypenaria, Gn., but 

 distinct by the two black lines, which, however, do not quite reach 

 the inner-margin, although indicated. 



Epidesmia piledropa, n. sp. 



Male, 32 mm. Head and thorax reddish-fuscous, face and 

 palpi black, palpi three times the width of eye. Antenna^ 

 fuscous, basal fourth ' white, pectinations five. Abdomen and 

 legs whitish, fuscous-tinged. Forewings triangular. Costa 

 nearly straight. Apex rounded, hindmargin bowed, oblicjue : 

 pale-reddish fuscous, sprinkled with blackish. Costal edge 

 whitish througliout, beneath this a streak of reddish from base to 

 about middle and beneath this a streak of dark -fuscous from base 



