264 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO -LEPIDOPTERA, 



apex with fourth, which is almost apical and much less oblique, 

 extending through costal cilia, and followed by a white line, 

 beyond which is a round ochreous posteriorly black margined 

 spot in apical cilia, containing a crescent-shaped black mark ; 

 hind-margin faintly clouded with grey; cilia white except on 

 the apical ochreous spot, beyond which are two distinct blackish 

 lines round apex only, and a strong short black hook projecting 

 directly from apical spot, being a prolongation of the black 

 crescent shaped mark. Hind-wings fuscous-grey, cilia whitish. 



A handsome species, variable in size, southern specimens 

 being the largest. It resembles the two following species in 

 shape of wing, and general appearance, but is immediately 

 known by the broad toothed inner-marginal streak, as well as 

 by the long dense hairs pf the labial palpi. A common and 

 widely distributed species, generally taken at rest on fences, 

 without any clue to its habits ; it occurs at Sydney and 

 Parramatta, at Springwood on the Blue Mountains (1,200 feet), 

 also at Brisbane, Melbourne, and at Brighton in Tasmania, from 

 October to March. 



Erech. chasmatias, n. sp. 



$ . 6." Head white. Palpi white, second joint of labial 

 palpi dark fuscous above, beneath with loose scales, terminal 

 joint loosely haired. Antennae whitish, obsoletely annulated 

 with darker. Thorax white, lateral and anterior margins dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen ochreous- whitish. Legs whitish, anterior 

 tibise and tarsi blackish above, middle tarsi with dark fuscous 

 rings at base of joints. Fore-wings white, with dark fuscous 

 markings ; a broad streak along inner margin from base to 

 beyond middle, where it is attenuated and bent upwards, ending 

 on disc beyond middle ; a slendef* straight line from base of 

 costa through disc to apex, interrupted at f- , beyond which it 

 becomes much broader, containing a black longitudinal streak 

 and ending in a round black apical spot ; a short very oblique 



