88 Mr. A. G. Butler on Melbourne Lepidoptera. 



We have two female examples in the Museum of an allied 

 species from Tasmania. They are snow-white, with black 

 abdomen as in F. melanosoma ; but the anal tuft is bright 

 orange, and there is no blackish colouring at the base of the 

 primaries on the under surface. One of these specimens is 

 labelled ^^ mixta'''' by Walker j and therefore the species may 

 take that name. 



15. Tela pusilla^ sp. n. (287). 

 Teia anartoides, var. ji, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. iv. p. 804 (18-5o). 



Smaller than T. anartoides ; primaries redder, with fewer 

 greyish-white scales ; secondaries with slightly narrower 

 black border. Expanse of wings 21-30 millim. 



A male without abdomen. 



T. anartoides^ which is confined to Tasmania, expands 33- 

 34 millim., and seems constant to that size. There are five 

 examples in the Museum; of T. pusiUa we have seven 

 specimens. 



16. Darala stygiana^ sp. n. (316). 



Primaries above grey, or (when seen through a lens) black 

 densely irrorated with white scales ; a small black-edged 

 white spot in the cell, contiected by a longitudinal black line 

 to a larger similar spot at the end of the cell ; wing crossed 

 by five zigzag black stripes, the first three near together 

 before the middle, the last, acutely zigzag, submarginal : 

 secondaries cream-coloured, changing at external third to 

 ashen grey ; base washed with testaceous ; a straight blackish 

 stripe across the basal third ; an undulated blackish arched 

 line at external third ; a submarginal series of white dots ; 

 fringe of all the wings black, spotted with white : body black, 

 with scattered white hairs ; antennas white, with grey pecti- 

 nations ; abdomen sericeous white, mixed with carmine hairs 

 at the sides. Wings below white, sericeous ; external third 

 greyish ; a slightly irregular black stripe just before the 

 middle ; a slender and slightly undulated discal blackish 

 line, followed by a broad dift'used grey belt with zigzag outer 

 edge; fringe blackish, spotted with white: primaries with the 

 discoidal area testaceous ; a black-bordered white spot in the 

 cell, and a second at the end of the cell ; costal margin dusky : 

 secondaries with a small blackish spot in the cell : thorax 

 below brown in the middle and black at the sides, very hairy, 

 and with scarlet and carmine hairs mixed in with the black 

 and brown ones ; legs above greyish brown, knees and end of 

 tibiae sulphur-yellow ; anterior tibia3 clothed with pale yellow 



