( 367 ) XVI. Bescviptiims of New Lepidoptera from Australia and Neio Zealand. By Edward Meybick, B.A., F.Z.S., F.E.S. [Read Nov. 3rd, 1897.] The following desciiptions are ia most instances drawn 'up from specimens taken by Messrs. J. A. Kershaw, O. V. Hudson, the late Geo. Barnard, and several other esteemed Australian correspondents, and liberally com-municated by them to me; the types are in my collection, but the collectors usually possess similar >examples. I. Australian Lepidoptera. CARADRINID^. Sub-fam. POLIADES. Oethos[a, Ochs. 0. horoloija, sp. n. (J 33 mm. Forewingu rather dark fuscous, slightly purplish-tinged, somewhat mixed with lighter brown ; a white discal dot before first line, and several on costa posteriorly ; first and second lines paler, iuternally partly blackish-edged, white-mixed towards extremities, clear white on costa ; orbicular and reuiform brownish, edged with white and outlined with black, posterior edge of reni-form very acutely indented in middle ; claviform partly blackish-outlined ; iuterneural black streaks betwaen reniform and termen; subterminal line partly whitish, interrupted. Hindwings whitish-fuscous, becoming white toAvards base, fuscous towards termen ; cilia white, with a fuscous subbasal line. Melbourne, Victoria ; one specimen, bat I have seen a second. Sub-fam. 2IELANCIIRIDES. Meliana, Cart. M. xijloijramuia, sp. n. ^ 21) mm. Anteunal ciliations long (3). Forewings greyish-ochreous, sufEusedly streaked with ochreous-whitish, with a few scattered black scales, median vein whiter ; a darker fuscous-mixed TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1897. PART IV. (DEC.)
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