LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1763 



Female. Silvery white. Palpi very much longer than the 

 breadth of the head; second joint slightly fringed above; third 

 lanceolate, about one-fourth of the length of the second. Antenna? 

 and legs slender. Fore wings acute, with an oblique abbreviated 

 postmedial fawn-coloured band, which is blackish-bordered on the 

 outer side; four ochraceous streaks between this line and the 

 exterior border, which is straight and rather oblique; under side 

 cinereous. Hind wings pale cinereous. Length of the body 

 3 lines; of the wings 9 lines. 



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



Eromene? vetustejxa. 

 Mas. Alba ; palpi graciles, capitis latitudine multo longiores, 

 articulo 2o sub/imbriato, 3o lanceolato 2i dimidio non bre- 

 viore ; antenna setulosa ; alee cincreee ; anticce acuicc, vilta 

 abbreviata ulba,fasciisduabus albis obliquis nigricante gut- 

 tulariter marginatis,punctis marginalibus nigricanlibus, mar- 

 gine exterior e perobliquo. 



Male. White. Palpi slender, very much longer than the 

 breadth of the head ; second joint with a short fringe beneath ; third 

 lanceolate, about half the length of the second. Antennae setulose. 

 Wings cinereous. Fore wings acute, with a white abbreviated stripe 

 in the disk, and with two oblique white bands, each of which is 

 accompanied on the inner side by blackish irregular dots; marginal 

 points blackish, not concise; exterior border hardly convex, very 

 oblique. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 9 lines. 

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



Genus ABGYEIA, C. L. H. xxx. 976. 



Argyrta interruptella. 

 Mas. Argenteo-alba ; palpi supra fimbriati, capitis latitudine 

 paullo longiores; antennce robustce ; alee anticce linea ochracea 

 longitvdinali subundulata costam attingente deinde ad mar- 

 ginem exteriorem descendente. 



Male. Silvery white. Palpi porrect, lanceolate, fringed above, 

 a little longer than the breadth of the head ; third joint much shorter 

 than the second. Antennse stout. Abdomen extending a little 

 beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft elongate. Fore wings acute ; a 

 slightly undulating ochraceous line proceeding from somewhat 

 before the middle of the interior border to rather beyond the middle 





