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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



By Oswald B. Lower, F.E.S., F.Z.S., Lond. 

 [Read November 9, 1922.] 



OECOPHORIDAE. 



Tisobarica habrcmorpha, n. sp. 



9, 16 mm. Head yellow, tinged with carmine on sides. (Palpi broken.) 

 Antennae and legs ochreous, legs banded with fuscous. Abdomen ochreous. 

 Forewings elongate, costa hardly arched, termen oblique ; yellow, with carmine 

 markings, more or less edged with blackish ; an oblique basal streak ; a moderately 

 broad outwardly oblique fascia from one-sixth of costa to dorsum at one-third, 

 with an outward angulation above dorsum ; a broad outwardly oblique fascia, 

 from costa about middle to beyond middle of dorsum, touching angulation of 

 previous fascia, fascia constricted above middle ; a similar fascia, parallel to last, 

 from costa at about three-quarters to tornus ; these two last fasciae enclose a 

 roundish spot of ground-colour just above middle ; a fascia along termen to 

 tornus, rapidly attenuated on lower half, and joining previous fascia at termina- 

 tion ; cilia yellow. Hindwings and cilia orange-yellow. 



Hab. — Dorrigo, New South Wales ; two specimens in March. 



Pyrgoptila penthistis, n. sp. 



d , 9 , 25-28 mm. Head yellowish-white. Antennae, palpi, and thorax 

 dark fuscous, thorax with a moderate whitish posterior spot. Abdomen ochreous- 

 fuscous. Legs fuscous, obscurely banded with whitish, posterior pair ochreous. 

 Forewings elongate, moderate, costa gently arched, more strongly towards apex, 

 termen oblique ; dark fuscous, becoming tinged with ochreous on posterior half 

 of wing ; markings white ; a somewhat deltoid spot on dorsum moderately large, 

 at one-third from base ; a lunate mark above dorsum, on fold, about middle ; 

 a curved spot in middle of wing, at posterior end of cell, preceded by a suffused 

 whitish spot ; a narrow elongate streak along dorsum near tornus ; a curved streak 

 between this and lunate mark, hardly touching dorsum ; cilia dark fuscous, 

 chequered with black and whitish spots at base. Hindwings fuscous-grey ; cilia 

 greyish-fuscous, darker basally. 



Hab. — Dorrigo, New South Wales ; five specimens in March. 



Ethmia heliomela, n. sp. 



d , 24 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax dark fuscous. Abdomen 

 dark fuscous, posterior two-thirds strongly tinged with orange. Legs dark 

 fuscous. Forewings elongate, moderate, costa gently arched, termen rounded, 

 oblique ; dark bronzy-fuscous, without markings ; cilia bronzy-fuscous. Hind- 

 wings orange ; a broad, bronzy-fuscous apical patch narrowly continued along 

 termen to tornus ; cilia dark fuscous on apical patch, remainder orange. 



Hab. — Mount Tambourine, Queensland ; three specimens in October. 



Barea chlorozona, n. sp. 



d , 9 , 25 mm. Head dull whitish. Palpi and antennae dull fuscous. 

 Thorax dull whitish, faintly greenish tinged. Abdomen grey-whitish. Legs 

 dark fuscous. Tibiae and tarsi ringed with whitish, posterior pair ochreous. 



