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yellow. Legs fuscous-whitish; tarsi black, ringed with whitish; 

 posterior legs whitish, slightly infuscated. Forewings elongate, 

 moderate, costa gently arched, apex somewhat pointed, hind- 

 margin extremely obliquely rounded; dark fuscous; a very indis- 

 tinct fine blackish line along fold of wing; two obscure blackish 

 dots in middle of disc, beyond ^ from base; a few blackish spots 

 at base: generally all these markings are obliterated by general 

 groundcolour : cilia blackish-fuscous, terminal half more or less 

 greyish. Hindwings with hindmargin slightly sinuate beneath 

 apex ; apex somewhat produced ; dull greyish-fuscous, thinly 

 scaled; a very fine, obscure, somewhat interrupted hindmarginal 

 line; cilia fuscous with a greyish-ochreous basal line. 

 Broken Hill, N.S.W. ; ten specimens during August. 



Gelechia pycnoda, n.sp. 



^Q. 10-1 2 ram. Head, thorax, antennae and palpi dull fuscous- 

 reddish; antennae whitish-tinged, basal joint whitish, terminal joint 

 of palpi ochreous-tinged, with blackish basal and subapical rings; 

 second joint internally ochreous-whitish, roughened on apical half, 

 somewhat grooved. Legs fuscous-whitish, tarsi blackish, with 

 whitish rings; posterior legs dull whitish. Abdomen dull leaden, 

 three anterior segments dull greyish. Forewings shaped as in 

 perdita; dull reddish-fuscous, irregularly strigulated with blackish; 

 a fine, somewhat obscure, direct blackish line from base in middle 

 to inner margin at anal angle; three obscure dark fuscous dots 

 arranged in a longitudinal series in middle of wing, first near base, 

 second just before middle, and third just before end of cell, some- 

 what all more or less merged into groundcolour : cilia greyish, 

 basal half dark fuscous, mixed with some blackish scales. Hind- 

 wings with termen sinuate, apex somewhat produced; grey-whitish, 

 thinly scaled; cilia grey, base ochreous-tinged. 



Broken Hill, N.S.W. ; ten specimens, taken from June to 

 October. 



Somewhat allied to ^jerc?i<a, but, apart from its more reddish 

 colouring, it is distinguished from that species by the abdomen, &c. 



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