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some raised scales, posterior edge also marked with raised scales 

 in disc; a line of black specks from costa at 4 to termen above 

 tornus : cilia grey-whitisli, towards base sprinkled with black 

 specks. Hindwings grey, in ^ thinly scaled and subhyaline 

 anteriorly; cilia pale greyish. 



Q. : Stradbroke Island (Turner)— N.S.W. : Sydney— Vic. : 

 Melbourne(Drake); from September to February, seven specimens. 



265. C. ochroptila, n.sp. 



^. 16 mm. Head and thorax fu.scous-whitish. Palpi whitish- 

 ochreous somewhat mixed with fuscous. Antennal ciliations 

 minute. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous sprinkled with fuscous. 

 Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa slightly arched, 

 ajiex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, somewhat oblique; light 

 brown irregularly mixed with darker; dorsal third mixed with 

 grey-whitish, and marked with longitudinal rows of small spots 

 or strigulse of blackish irroration; costa spotted and strigulated 

 with blackish; a large subtrriangular blotch of dark fuscous 

 suffusion extending on costa from about \ to 4, its apex in 

 middle of disc, posterior edge slightly concave, margined by an 

 ochreous-whitisli blotch extending to termen and nearly to 

 tornus, containing a roundish central spot of brown suffusion 

 connected with middle of termen by a brown and black streak : 

 cilia ochreous-whitish, barred with brown sprinkled with black- 

 ish. Hindwings light fuscous, suffusedly spotted with darker; 

 dorsal edge clothed with dense long hairs, beneath with a deep 

 irides-cent groove filled anteriorly with long ochreous-yellow hair- 

 scales and edged interiorly with rough blackish-grey hairs; cilia 

 whitish-ochreous, with fuscous subbasal shade. 



N.S.W. : Sydney; in October, one specimen. An abnormal 

 species, recalling some forms of Argyroploce, but there is no basal 

 pecten in hindwings. 



36. Xenothictis, n.g. 



Palpi long, porrected, basal joint considerably elongated, 

 swollen, second joint long, clothed with dense appressed scales 



