BY E. MEYRICK, B.A. 687 



costa, grey on hindmargin, with a black spot at apex, and a white 

 basal spot on middle of hindmargin. Hind wings thinly scaled, 

 grey ; cilia grey-whitish, with a faint grey line near base ; veins 

 3 and 4 on a very long stalk. 



$ . Head, palpi, &c., as in male; thorax partially suffused 

 with reddish-ochreous. Forewings more elongate than in male, 

 wholly reddish-ochreous, sprinkled with grey-whitish ; costa very 

 narrowly white, and posteriorly with short oblique white 

 strigulse ; two or three blackish scales on inner margin ; the 

 silvery-metallic lines and black dots above anal angle as in male ; 

 cilia as in male. Hindwings as in male. 



Easily distinguished from its allies by the reddish-ochreous 

 partial suffusion towards hindmargin in male, and the wholly 

 reddish-ochreous forewings of female ; nearest to S. sollicitana, 

 but differing from it and the other allied species by the absence 

 of any white costal or subcostal streak. 



Larva undescribed ; feeding in spun-up shoots of Leptospermum 

 lanigerum {Myrtaceoe) , in October (and doubtless other months). 



Abundant amongst its foodplant, flying out in numbers when 

 disturbed, round Sydney, and at Bulli, and Blackheath on the 

 Blue Mountains, from August to March. 



7. Streps, sollicitana n. sp. 



$ $ . 3-2-"-5". Head and thorax white, sides suffused with 

 grey. Palpi white, second joint tufted beneath, tuft more or less 

 suffused with grey towards extremity. Antennae dark grey, in 

 male thickened and notched at about one-fifth or one-sixth from 

 basal joint. Abdomen grey, segmental margins and anal tuft of 

 male silvery-whitish. Legs whitish, anterior and middle tibiae 

 and all tarsi ringed with dark fuscous. Forewings very narrow, 

 costa slightly arched, apex rather produced, hindmargin sinuate, 

 rather oblique ; rather dark grey, densely irrorated with white ; 

 along the costa the dark grey alternates with the white to form 



