LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1761 



nigro subconspersce, vitta subcostali albida, punctis margin- 

 alibus nigris ; posticce fusca. 



Male. Fawn-colour, brownish beneath. Body beneath and 

 legs cinereous. Palpi squamous, nearly twice longer than the 

 breadth of the head; second joint very convex above; third lanceo- 

 late, shorter than the second. Maxillary palpi less than half the 

 leDgth of the labial palpi. Antennae minutely serrated. Abdomen 

 extending a little beyond the hind wings. Fore wings thinly and 

 minutely black-speckled ; a whitish subcostal stripe, which does not 

 extend to the exterior border; marginal points black. Hind wings 

 brown. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 7 lines. 



a. Moreton Bay. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



Genus EROMENE, C. L. H. xxvii. 179. 



Eromene lepidella. 



Mas. Late aurnto-jlava ; oculi albo cincti ; palpi fusci, lanceo- 

 lati, capitis tatitudine multo longiores; pedes albi, aurato 

 vittati ; alee anticre vitta tenui viilaque exteriore lata arcuala 

 cupreis subcostalibus, lunula lineaque exteriore angulosa 

 argenteis, punctis tribus marginalibus a tris, fimbria argenteo- 

 cinerea basi cuprea ; posticce aneo-cincrea, fimbria basi alba. 



Male. Bright gilded yellow. Head about the eyes and beneath 

 and pectus silvery white. Palpi brown, lanceolate, much longer than 

 the breadth of the head. Legs silvery white, with gilded stripes. 

 Fore wings acute, with a slender cupreous stripe, proceeding from 

 the base to a broad curved cupreous stripe, of which each end joins 

 the costa ; a silvery lunule on this stripe, which is traversed by an 

 exterior zigzag silvery line; three deep black points on the hind part 

 of the exterior border; fringe silvery cinereous, cupreous at the 

 base; exterior border straight, moderately oblique. Hind wings 

 aeneous-cinereous ; fringe white at the base. Length of the body 

 3 lines; of the wings 9 lines. 



a, 6. Auckland, New Zealand. From Mr. Oxley's collection. 



Eromene bipcjnctella. 



Mas. Ochracea ; caput albidum ; palpi pilosi, capitis latitudine 

 multo longiores ; antenna subserratce ; ala? antica lineis duabus 

 fuscis valde arcuatis, 2a albido submarginata, gutta media alba 

 fusco marginata, punctis marginalibus nigris, linea marginali 

 cuprea ; posticce cinereot. 



