LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 691 



78. CECOPHORA PROPRIELLA. 



Mas. Argenteo-alba ; corpus pallide ochraceum ; palpi fusco 

 vittati ; antenna glabra ; thorax cervino fasciatus ; abdomen 

 fasciis saturate ochraceis ; tibia postica fimbriates; ala 

 antica apice snbrotundata, cervino bivittata ; postica cinerea, 

 fimbria pallide ochracea. 



Male. Silvery white. Body pale ochraceous. Palpi slender, 

 about twice longer than the breadth of the head ; second joint brown 

 beneath ; third brown, setifonn, almost as long as the second. An- 

 tennae brown, smooth. Thorax with a broad fawn-coloured band. 

 Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind wings ; hind borders 

 of the segments deep ochraceous. Hind tibiae fringed. Fore wings 

 slightly rounded at the tips, with two fawn-coloured stripes, one 

 subcostal, the other near the interior border; exterior border slightly 

 convex, rather oblique ; under side dark cinereous. Hind wings 

 cinereous; fringe pale ochraceous. Length of the body 5 lines; of 

 the wings 12 lines. 



a. Sydney. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



79. QECOPHORA SUBNEXELLA. 



Fcem. Argenteo-alba; abdomen pallide cervinum ; ala antica 

 aneo-cervina, strigis pallidioribus, striga subcostali lanceolata, 

 vitta media strigaque postica intersecta argenteis ; postica 

 cinereo-anea, fimbria albida. 



Female. Silvery white. Abdomen pale fawn-colour above. 

 Wings moderately broad, slightly rounded at the tips. Fore wings 

 aeneous fawn-colour, with paler streaks between the veins ; a silvery 

 lanceolate subcostal streak extending along half the length from 

 the base ; a silvery middle stripe, which is very obliquely intersected 

 at one-third of the length and extends to the tip of the wing; a sil- 

 very streak very near the interior border, and extending along half 

 the length from near the base of the latter. Hind wings cinereous- 

 aeneous ; fringe whitish. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 

 14 lines. 



a. Australia. From Mr. Milne's collection. 



b. Sydney. From Mr. Lambert's collection. 



