52 Jefferis Turner : 



wings, termen gently rounded; whitish; slight grey- whitish suffusion 

 towards apex; cilia whitish. 



This species and the following are remarkable for their long palpi 

 and narrow forewings. Type in Coll. Lyell. 



v., Ringwood in April, one specimen. 



SCOPABIA ITHYNTIS, U. sp. 



<? ? 14-16 mm. Head whitish. Palpi 4; fuscous, upper edge, and 

 base of lower edge whitish. Antennae grey; ciliations in J 4. Thorax 

 fuscous. Abdomen pale-grey. Legs fuscous; posterior pair whitish. 

 Forewings narrow, posteriorly dilated, apex acute, termen sinuate, 

 oblique; whitish, irrorated with fuscous, more densely in $ ; an indis- 

 tinct fuscous line from i costa to ^ dorsum, inner edge suffusedly 

 whitish, orbicular and claviform obsolete; reniform represented by 

 a brownish-ferruginous spot; a whitish transverse line from f costa 

 to I dorsum, angled outwardly, better defined in $ ; a whitish streak 

 from apex towards or meeting second line at angle; cilia whitish, an 

 interrupted sub-basal fuscous line, apices partly greyish. Hindwings 

 2^ times as broad as forewings, termen slightly sinuate; whitish, to^ 

 wards termen greyish-tinged; cilia whitish, usually with a fuscous sub- 

 basal line 



Type in Coll. Lyell. 



N.S.W., Adaminaby, in October; V., Gisborne, in September and 

 October; fifteen specimens. 



^ SCOPARIA MELANOXANTHA, U. SP. 



$ 18-19 mm. Head yellow, with a few blackish scales. Palpi 

 2; yellowish, with a few blackish scales. Antennae pale-ochreous, on 

 dorsum barred with blackish. Thorax yellow; bases of patagia, a 

 pair of posterior dots, and some scattered scales blackish. Abdomen 

 pale-grey. Legs yellowish, tibiae and tarsi with obscure fuscous, 

 annulations. Forewings narrowly triangular, costa nearly straight,, 

 apex pointed, termen nearly straight, moderately oblique; yellow;; 

 markings blackish; a dot on costa near base; a short basal dorsal 

 streak; a broad incomplete fascia from costa near base, outwardly- 

 oblique, not reaching dorsum; a dot on fold beyond this; a second 

 similar mark from costa reaching half across disc, and connected 

 with a narrow suffusion on central half of costa; reniform 8 shaped,, 

 its upper half very thickly outlined, its lower very slenderly and in- 

 completely; some blackish dorsal irroration; a triangular costal sub- 

 apical spot; a large tornal spot, acutely produced halfway across disc, 

 containing a yellow dot near tornus; a triangular spot on mid-termen; 

 cilia yellowish with an interrupted fuscous basal line, and a grey sub- 

 apical line. Hindwings with termen sinuate; ochreous-whitish, suf- 

 fused with grey towards termen; cilia ochreous-whitish with a grey 

 sub-basal line. 



This and the following species are specifically very unlike any- 

 thing else found in Australia. 



Q., National Park (3000 ft.), in December; two specimens taken 

 at light. 



