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preceded by a slight dark suffusion towards costa; a terminal 

 series of triangular marks or fine, short, interneural, longi- 

 tudinal streaks; cilia ochreous-whitish. Hindwings with 

 termen rounded; ochreous-whitish, with pale, suffused, 

 median, postmedian, and submarginal grey lines; terminal 

 marks and cilia as forewings. Underside whitish; forewings 

 suffused with grey as far as postmedian line; hindwings with 

 a median transverse line. 



New South Wales : Woodford, in March and April ; two 

 specimens received from Mr, Geo. Lyell. Type in Coll. Lyell. 



Gen. Melitulias, Meyr. 

 I do not consider the presence of androconial scales in 

 the male as a rule a sufficient character for generic distinction, 

 and have therefore merged Hypycnopa, Low., in XantJiorlioe^ 

 and refrained from making a new genus for Larentia petrodes. 

 But I have sacrificed strict consistency in retaining the genus 

 Melitulias, Meyr., which defines a small natural group peculiar 

 to Tasmania and South-east Australia, particularly the 

 mountains, in which new species may be expected to occur. 

 It is an endemic derivative of Ewphyia. I regard glandulata, 

 Gn., as the type. 



Melitulias leucographa, n. sp. 

 \€VKoypa<f>os, inscribed with white. 



(5 , 9 J 24-28 mm. Head fuscous with a few whitish scales 

 on face. Palpi 3 ; fuscous ; base beneath whitish, sharply 

 defined. Antennae dark fuscous; ciliations in male imper- 

 ceptible. Thorax and abdomen fuscous with a few whitish 

 scales. Legs fuscous. Forewings triangular, costa very 

 slightly arched, apex pointed, termen bowed, oblique, wavy; 

 fuscous-brown; markings white partly outlined with fuscous; 

 a fine line from ^ costa to ^ dorsum, curved outwards beneath 

 costa; a broader line from ^ costa, at first transverse, then 

 bent inwards and joining first line above dorsum; a dark- 

 fuscous discal dot beneath mid-costa, sometimes surrounded by 

 a narrow whitish suffusion ; sometimes a fine, sinuate, inwardly 

 oblique line from f costa not reaching middle of disc ; a 

 broader line from | costa, angled inwards above and outwards 

 at middle, then inwardly curved to dorsum before tornus; a 

 fine interrupted subterminal line, a fine oblique streak from 

 apex, crossing subterminal line, ending in postmedian line at 

 its subcostal angle ; a dark-fuscous terminal line ; cilia fuscous 

 barred with white. Hindwings with termen rounded; in 

 male grey; with a large, median, oval, brownish-fuscous, 

 androconial blotch; cilia grey; m female pale brownish-grey, 

 a suffused, whitish, postmedian, transverse line; a whitish 



