94 Mr. A. G. Butler on Melbourne Lejndoptera. 



Tvlntis]i line, the apical portion obliquelj rounded off inter- 

 nally, and limited by a white dash ; a marginal black line, 

 interrupted at tlie extremity of the nervures ; fringe dark 

 brown, witli a pale basal line : secondaries bright ochreous, 

 with black marginal line as on the primaries ; fringe greyish 

 brown, traversed by two pale lines ; two brown streaks at 

 anal angle, and a few small spots along the abdominal 

 margin : body pale pinky brown ; palpi and a double dorsal 

 series of spots on the abdomen black. Under surface of 

 wings testaceous, speckled with brown ; a disco-submarginal 

 squamose brownish band ; a brown postmedian line, and a 

 small black spot at the end of each discoidal cell ; a very 

 slender black marginal line ; fringe grey, with a pale-yellow 

 basal line : body below whitish, irrorated with brown. Ex- 

 panse of wings 34 millim. 



A female example. 



The allies of this species have been referred to various 

 genera : Guenee placed some of them (as C. vicissata) in 

 Coremia and others in Camjjtogramma ; Walker placed them 

 under Coremia and Cidaria ; and Felder referred them to 

 Cidaria only. They seem to me to have greater affinity to 

 Larentia than to any of these three genera; but the primaries 

 are, as a rule, more acute, and the character of coloration, 

 which may be roughly described as consisting of dark-brown 

 primaries and ochraceous secondaries, is very different ; the 

 palpi, as in many genera of Geometrites, form a conical point 

 in front of the head, the antenna? are pectinated in the males, 

 but simple in the females. I would propose for this group 

 the generic name of Chry solar entia. 



PiiRiSSOGONUS, gen. nov. 



Allied to Microdes. Male with the costal margin of the 

 primaries angulated at basal third and bearing a projecting 

 tuft of short hairs, the whole central area of these wings very 

 coarsely scaled on the under surface ; antenna?, of male thick ^ 

 and pubescent; venation quite simple; pattern like that of 

 Eujniheciay which the female perfectly resembles. 



43. PJtrissogonus canatus (92). 

 g . Scotosia canata, Walker. 

 A pair. 



44. Coremia'^ so7<</a/a. Walk. (27). 



One specimen. 



In my opinion this species should be referred to Larentia. 



