ADDENDA. 773 



with white hairs. Fore wings grayish along the exterior border, 

 with white spots on the fringe, with a white discal dot. and with a 

 ,whue spot between the dot and the base of the interior border. 

 Hind wings with whitish spots on the fringe. Female— Thorax 

 white on each side. Fore wings with the white spots much larger 

 than in the male. Length of the body 4$— 6 lines; of the wings 

 11 — 16 lines. 



a, b. Sydney. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



c. New South Wales. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Genus MELORA. 



Proboscis mediocriter longa.— Gippitjs. 

 Proboscis brevissima. — Melo ra. 



Mas. Corpus pilosum, valde robustum. Proboscis brevissima. 

 Palpi graciles, porrecti, pilosi, caput vix superantes ; articulus lus 

 brevis; 3us minutus, conicus. Antenna? simplices, gracillima?, 

 thorace non longiores. Abdomen alas posticas paullo superans, 

 apice fasciculatura. Pedes validi, pilosi. Alae sat angustae. 



Male. Body very stout, pilose. Proboscis very short. Palpi 

 slender, porrect, pilose, hardly extending beyond the head ; first 

 joint short; third minute, conical. Antennae simple, very slender, 

 not longer than the thorax. Abdomen extending for one-fourth of 

 its length beyond the hind wings, tufted at the tip. Legs stout, 

 pilose. Wings rather narrow. Fore wings opaque, straight along the 

 costa, rounded at the tips, oblique and hardly convex along the ex- 

 terior border ; second inferior vein about thrice further from the 

 third than from the first ; third much further from the fourth than 

 from the second. 



1. Melora amygdaloides. 



Mas. Lutea ; thorax fusco varius ; pectus* abdomen basi rosea, 

 coxce ; jemoraque abdomen nigro quadrifaseiatum, disco sitbtus 

 nigro ; alee anticce ferrugineo-fusca?, maculis sex margirwque 

 exteriore luteis ; posticce nigricantes, semihyalincc, margini- 

 bus rufescentibus. 



Male. Luteous. Palpi yellow. Antenna? brown. Thorax 

 clothed with brown hairs on the disk and on each side in front. 

 Pectus and abdomen towards the base bright rose-colour. Abdomen 

 with four slender black bands ; disk of the under side black. Coxae 

 and femora rose-colour. Fore wings ferruginous-brown, luteous 



