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Hindwingg with ternien rounded ; apex hardly prominent ; 

 color as in forewings; a large patch of rather long golden- 

 ochreous hairs extending from base to near two-thirds not near 

 reaching costa or inner margin ; cilia as in forewings, but 

 more whitish. Under side of forewings with color as above, 

 upper half of ternien broadl)^ blue-grey ; whole of cell filled up 

 with orange, 3 posterior spots of upper side reproduced) and 

 confluent with posterior edge of cell ; lower of the 3 sub- 

 apical spots of upper side reproduced ; cilia fuscous-grey, with 

 dark fuscous spots at extremities of veins. Hindwings grey- 

 whitish, somewhat lilacine ; an obscure ring of fuscous before 

 middle ; a row of 3 or 4 similar rings at two-thirds from base ; 

 cilia greyish-fuscous. 



Larva full fed, 35 mm. Cylindrical, very pale greenish; 

 head thickly covered with fine white erect hairs, body 

 finely clothed with similar hairs, but in a lesser degi^ee. 

 The whole larva is covered with a fine white powder, 

 causing it to appear wholly white. It apparently lives head 

 downwards, as the opening of the sheaf which it constructs is 

 below, and not above as is usual inj this group ; before pupating 

 the larva closes the opening by spinning a silken pad across it. 

 It pupates head downwards. Feeds on Patersonia, sj). (Iri- 

 dacece), and imago emerges during October. 



The imago bears some resemblance to some species of Telesto, 

 the female being similar to donnysa on forewings above. 



Mount Kembla and Katoomba, New South Wales ; several 

 specimens bred in February and March. 



8. Mesodina halyzia, Hew. 



{Hesperilla halyzia, Hew. Desc. Hesp., p. 38, n. 1, 1868; 

 Ex. Butt. V. Hesp. and Cyclop., f. 7, 1874; female, A. and S., 

 Vict. Butt., p. 125, 1893). 



Male and female, 28-34 mm. Head, thorax, palpi, and abdo- 

 men dark fuscous, palpi and thorax beneath white. Legs 

 whitish. Antenn?e fuscous, annulated with white, club red- 

 dish, internally whit€. Forewings elongate, triangular, costa 

 somewhat sinuate in middle, termen oblique, not bowed ; dark 

 fuscous with metallic reflections; markings whitish; a large, 

 somewhat quadrate spot in posterior end of cell, sinuate ante- 

 riorly and postriorly ; a cartridge-shaped spot immediately 

 beneath and beyond, beneath which is another large quadi'ate 

 spot, only separated by intervening vein ; an oblique trans- 

 verse row of 3 sub-apical spots, absent in male; cilia fuscous, 

 basal half darker. Hindwings with termen rounded ; without 



