BY E. MEYRICK, B.A. 683 



fasciculata (Nyrtacea), and probably other plants of the same 

 order, in December, January, and doubtless other months. 



Extremely abundant in the bush round Sydney, readily 

 disturbed and very active, especially towards sunset, almost with- 

 out intermission from July to March ; occurs also at Melbourne ; 

 and I took it not uncommonly at Wellington and Hamilton, New 

 Zealand, in January, frequenting a shrub which I believe to be 

 Leptospermum ericoides. The New Zealand specimens do not differ 

 perceptibly from Australian, except in being slightly smaller 

 than the average ; and there seems no reason to suppose that the 

 species has been artificially introduced from either country into 

 the other. 



3. Streps, macropetana, n. sp. 



$ ? . 7"-8f". Head, palpi, and thorax light ochreous-grey, 

 mixed with dark grey and dark fuscous; palpi not tufted. 

 Antennae dark fuscous, in male thickened and notched at one- 

 eighth from basal joint. Abdomen grey, segmental margins 

 ochreous-whitish. Legs ochreous-whitish, anterior and middle 

 tibiae and all tarsi suffusedly banded with dark fuscous. Fore- 

 wings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, hindmargin nearly 

 straight, very oblique ; ashy-grey, variable in depth, finely and 

 closely irrorated with whitish ; costa finely and obliquely strigu- 

 lated with blackish-grey j numerous indistinct dark grey longi- 

 tudinal strigulse in disc, towards hindmargin more distinct and 

 forming connected lines ; often there is a faint irregular ochre- 

 ous suffusion, especially towards middle of disc ; two or three 

 raised scales near inner margin towards base ; often a slender 

 oblique anteriorly suffused black streak from inner margin at 

 one-third, reaching half across wing, frequently interrupted OP 

 obsolete ; often a small indistinct dark fuscous triangular spot on 

 inner margin before anal angle ; between this and the oblique 

 streak at one-third the ground colour is often paler, forming an 

 irregularly oblong patch ; sometimes a small cloudy dark grey 



