eu:michtis. 343 



Tasmania, Hobarfc (Doubleday, Butler, Smith, Alport, Norman), 

 6 (5 , 6 5, types confundens, familiarls, punctisigna, exclusa. 

 Exp. 34-42 millim. 



*2513. Eumichtis mesophsea. (Plate CIV. fig. 15.) 

 Eumichtis meso-j^hma, Turner, inecl. 



S . Head and thorax clothed with grey-brown and black scales ; 

 sides of palpi and frons black ; an oblique whitish line across 

 patagia ; metathoracic crest tipped with whitish ; tarsi fuscous, 

 with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown with slight whitish seg- 

 mental rings, the dorsal crests tipped with whitish, the ventral 

 surface pale tinged with rufous. Fore wing purplish grey ; 

 subbasal line black, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 a triangular black-brown mark with whitish streak on its inner 

 edge above inner margin before the antemedial line, which is 

 double, angled outwards and interrupted below costa, then oblique 

 to submedian fold and curved inwards to inner margin ; the medial 

 area black-brown except towards costa and inner margin ; claviform 

 absent ; orbicular and reniform small, with grey centres and slight 

 whitish annuli defined by black, the former rather oblique elliptical, 

 •confluent with a small grey mark defined by black below median 

 uervure and connected with the reniform, which is angled inwards 

 on median uervure and has its outer edge tinged with rufous ; a 

 black spot on middle of costa ; postmedial line with double black 

 spot at costa, then with two series of black points beyond it on the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold 

 and below vein 4 to inner edge of reniform, some pale points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line rufous, defined on each side 

 by blackish and with minute dentate black marks on inner side 

 below costa and at middle, dentate oiitwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3; 

 a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia grey mixed with 

 black and with fine pale line at base. Hind wing fuscous, the 

 basal and inner areas browner ; cilia pale brown with fuscous line 

 through them and grey tips ; the underside grey irrorated with 

 fuscous, the terminal half snfi'ased with black, a small discoidal 

 spot and curved postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hah. Victoria, Beaconsfield (Lyell), type t c? i" Coll. Drake. 

 Kv2y. 34 millim. 



2514. Eumichtis extima. (Plate CIV. fig. 16.) 



Hadena extima, Wlk. xi. 599 (1857). 



§ . Head and thorax fuscous black tinged with grey ; tarsi 

 ringed with white ; abdomen brownish white irrorated with dark 

 brown. Pore wing black-brown suffused with leaden grey ; sub- 

 basal line represented by tAvo black striiB from costa and one from 

 cell ; antemedial line indistinct, oblique, slightly sinuous ; claviform 



