BY A. J. TURNER. 703 



edged posteriorly with white. Forewings elongate-triangular, 

 costa almost straight, apex round-pointed, termen slightly bowed, 

 strongly oblique, wavy; whitish, with numerous straight, strongly 

 oblique, fuscous, transverse lines; a strong line at -J followed by 

 two fine lines; a strong antemedian line from ^ dorsum, obsolete 

 towards costa; a dark fuscous discal dot beneath mid-costa; 

 a strong postmedian line from 4 costa to § dorsum, ill-defined on 

 costa; preceded by a tine line, and followed by several fine lines; 

 a short oblique fuscous subapical streak; a fine fuscous terminal 

 line; cilia whitish with a pale fuscous line before middle. Hind- 

 wings with termen nearly straight to near apex, there rounded; 

 whitish; posterior half marked by numerous, fine, indistinct, 

 fuscous, transverse lines; terminal line and cilia as forewings. 



In Mey rick's tabulation this falls with H. subrectaria, for 

 which it cannot be mistaken. 



Type in Coll Drake. 



Vic. : Beaconstield; one specimen. 



Hydriomena opipara * n. 



sp. 



£. 38 mm. Head and palpi fuscous mixed with whitish; palpi 

 2 j. Antennae fuscous. Thorax and abdomen whitish irrorated 

 with fuscous. Legs fuscous irrorated, and tarsi annulated, with 

 fuscous. Forewings triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, 

 termen bowed, oblique; whitish with fuscous lines and irroration; 

 median band mostly fuscous; three or four wavy fuscous lines in 

 basal ^; antemedian line slightly outwardly curved, dentate, from 

 4 costa to -5- dorsum; postmedian line wavy, slightly indented 

 above middle, with a moderate median projection with two 

 rounded heads, from | costa to 4 dorsum; a blackish median 

 discal dot, and several wavy transverse dark fuscous lines in 

 median band; postmedian line followed by a wavy whitish line, 

 indistinctly double; this by several fuscous lines; terminal area 

 tinged with reddish-ochreous; an interrupted blackish terminal 

 line; cilia grey-whitish with a median fuscous line, bases tinged 



Opiparus, splendid. 



