1122 CATALOGUE OF 



Tawny. Head above and palpi blackish. Antennae tawny. 

 Thorax in front with a brown band, which is bordered with white 

 in front and with black behind. Abdomen above mostly blackish 

 brown; tip white. Legs partly clothed with white hairs ; tibia? and 

 tarsi with black and white bands. Wings brown, with whitish bor- 

 ders, which include a row of brown dots. Fore wings with some 

 indistinct undulating oblique blackish streaks, and with a large 

 white patch towards each tip. Male. — Thorax white. Fore wings 

 with an indented white stripe along the interior border. Length of 

 the body 5 — 8 lines ; of the wings 14 — 16 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



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



c. New Holland. From Mr. Milne's collection. 



d. ? 



2. Mecytha trimacula. 



Mas. Nigro-fusca ; caput et thorax supra alba ; antenna niyrce ; 

 thorax nigro trimaculatus ; abdomen apice album, subtus albo 

 vittatum ; tarsi nigro fasciati ; ala anticce fasciis duabus 

 valde diffusis albidis, maculis tribus discalibus guttisque ex- 

 terioribus nigris, 



Male. Blackish brown. Head and thorax above white. An- 

 tennae black. Thorax with three black spots ; one semicircular, in 

 front of the other two. Abdomen with a white tip ; under side 

 with a slender white stripe. Tarsi with white bands. Fore wings 

 with two very diffuse whitish bands, with three black spots in the 

 disk, and with a row of blackish dots near the exterior border. 

 Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. Van Dieman's Land. Presented by Morton Allport, Esq. 



3. Mecytha testacea. 



Mas. Testacea; antenna nigra ; pedes ex parte nigro hirti ; alee 

 antica apud costam fuscescentes. 



Male. Testaceous. Antennae black. Legs partly clothed 

 with black hairs. Fore wings brownish on the costa. Length of 

 the body 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 





