LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 353 



Male. Cinereous, speckled with brown. Head with a short thick 

 tuft. Palpi porrect, as long 1 as the breadth of the head ; covered to 

 the tips with a pale thick and very long fringe. Antennas minutely 

 pubescent. Fore wings hardlv acute; a silvery whitish patch near 

 the base, transversely streaked with pale brown and including a 

 brown spot; a ferruginous costal patch intersected by a curved 

 silvery whitish band, which extends obliquely towards the exterior 

 border, and is there bent to the interior angle; a few small trans- 

 verse black streaks; costa slightly convex ; exterior border almost 

 straight, slightly oblique. Hind wings yellowish; fringe silvery 

 cinereous. Length of the body 3 Hues ; of the wings 7 lines. 



a. Sydney. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



66. SdAPHILA COMPTANA. 



Mas. Chalybcea ; abdomen ceneum ; alee anticce ferrugineo- 

 nigroque strigatce, lituris duabus basalibus, fasciis duabus, 

 punctis duo bus costalibus exterioribus lineaque sub marginali 

 albis ; posticce cuprece, basi cenece. 



Male. Chalybeous. Palpi porrect, shorter than the breadth of 

 the head, with a very short fringe ; third joint conical, minute. 

 Antenna? very minutely setulo^e. Abdomen aeneous, extending 

 very little beyond the fore win^s. Tarsi with whitish bands. Fore 

 wings rectangular at the tips, with transverse ferruginous and black 

 streaks, and with two white bands; two small white marks near the 

 base of the costa ; two white costal points between the second band 

 and a white submarginal line; costa straight; exterior border very 

 slightly curved, hardly oblique. Hind wings cupreous, aeneous 

 towards the base. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 

 8 lines. 



a. Sydney. From Mr, Diggles' collection. 

 New Zealand. 



67. SCIAPHILA FLEXIVITTANA. 



Mas. Nigro-cinerea ; caput et thorax anlieus ferruginea ; abdo- 

 men cinereum ; alee anticce vix acutce, lituris indistinctis 

 vittaque postica lata Jlexa interrupta nigro submarginata 

 ferrugineis, puncto discali albido ; posticce cinereai, fusco 

 subtessellatcB. 



Male. Blackish cinereous, paler beneath. Head, palpi and 

 fore border of the thorax ferruginous. Palpi porrect, stout, shorter 



