698 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, III., 



SCORDYLIA LEUCOPHRAGMA. . 



Vic: Lome, Beaconsfield. 



SCORDYLIA DECIPIENS. 



N.S.W.: Katoomba. 



SCORDYLIA NIPHOSTICHA,* II. Sp. 



Cj). 25 mm. Head, palpi, antenna?, thorax, and abdomen red- 

 dish-brown. Legs brown-whitish, irrorated with fuscous; anterior 

 pair darker. Forewings triangular, costa moderately arched, 

 apex round-pointed, termen bowed, oblique; deep reddish-brown: 

 lines snow-white; a narrow straight basal line at i; a slightly 

 outwardly curved line from beneath ^ costa to mid-dorsum, 

 dilated in middle; a pale mark on § costa, from beneath which is 

 a thickened sigmoid line to before tornus; an elongate-oval 

 longitudinal snow-white subapical spot; from which proceeds a 

 line of fuscous spots to tornus; cilia fuscous-brown, apices paler. 

 Hind wings with termen strongly rounded; pale brownish grey; a 

 faint antemedian fuscous discal dot; a faint white line from | 

 costa to tornus, angulated in disc; cilia concolorous. 



Closely allied to S. leucophragma, but the lines are differently 

 formed, the median line being curved, and the postmedian without 

 the strong median projection. 



Type in Coll. Lyell. 



Vic: Beaconsfield, in March; one specimen. 



SCORDYLIA PTERIDOPHILA,f n.sp. 



gQ 17-20 mm. Bead, palpi, thorax, and abdomen reddish- 

 brown; the last with some whitish scales. Antenna? brownish- 

 grey obscurely annulated with fuscous; in £ with very short 

 ciliations (4-). Legs brownish-ochreous; anterior tibia? and tarsi 

 suffused with fuscous. Forewings triangular, costa rather 

 strongly arched, apex rounded, termen bowed, oblique; lines 



* vi(f)0(TTixos, with snow-white lines. 

 ^7TT(f}i8o<pi\os, fern-loving. 



