74 Trayisactions. — Zoology. 



10b. Without blackish discal streak. 



11a. First line straight . . . . . . . . 35. periphanes. 



lib. ,, curved . . . . . . . . 25. ergatis. 



8b. First line absent. 



9a. Thorax with sharp blackish-fuscous lateral stripe. 

 10a. Basal dark streak in a line with discal . . . . . . 59. trivirgata. 



10b. „ ,, parallel with discal . . . . . • 58. panopla. 



9b. Thorax without lateral stripe. 

 10a. Dorsal half of wing white . . . . . . 52. steropcea. 



10b. ,, ,, not white. 



11a. Reniform represented by a whitish dot . . . . . . 55. paltomacha. 



lib. ,, ,, by a black dot .. .. ..56. deltophora. 



* 2. Scop, anthracias, n. sp. 

 Male, female. — 15-16 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax dark 

 fuscous mixed with black ; palpi 2£ ; antennal ciliations |-. Abdomen 

 grey. Legs black, apex of joints white. Forewings elongate, triangular, 

 costa slightly arched, apex rounded, hindmargin obliquely rounded; dark 

 slaty-fuscous ; markings black, ill-defined ; a short interrupted streak from 

 base ; first line somewhat curved ; orbicular and claviform irregular, some- 

 what linear, touching first line ; reniform represented by a trifurcate mark ; 

 second line almost rectangularly bent in disc, followed on costa by some 

 white scales ; veins partially marked with black posteriorly : cilia dark 

 slaty-fuscous, with a black line, tips pale. Hindwings 1^- ; pale whitish- 

 grey, towards hindmargin grey ; cilia grey-whitish, with two faint grey 

 lines. 



Doubtless protectively coloured to resemble charred tree-trunks, like 

 Bondia. 



Launceston and Mount Wellington, Tasmania, in January ; three speci- 

 mens. 



*3. Scop, chiasta, n. sp. 

 Male. — 14-17 mm. Head white. Palpi If, dark fuscous, basal and 

 terminal joints white. Antennae white, annulated with dark fuscous, cilia- 

 tions %. Thorax white, irrorated with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish- 

 grey. Legs dark fuscous, banded with white. Forewings elongate-trian- 

 gular, costa slightly arched, apex rounded, hindmargin obliquely rounded ; 

 white, irregularly irrorated with fuscous and dark fuscous ; a short dark 

 fuscous streak from base of costa parallel to inner margin ; first line white, 

 oblique, rather indented, posteriorly margined with dark fuscous, which 

 forms a triangular spot on costa ; orbicular elongate, 1 , touching first line, 

 dark fuscous ; claviform strong, elongate, touching first line, dark fuscous ; 

 reniform represented by a quadrifurcate dark fuscous mark, upper fork 

 sometimes filled with fuscous ; a small dark fuscous spot on costa some- 

 what beyond middle ; second line white, tolerably distinctly margined with 



