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REVISION OP AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



Antennae grey-whitish, in ^ pectinated to near apex, pectinations 

 a 2, b 21. Thorax grey-whitish suffused with fuscous-grey, crest 

 small, black in front. Abdomen grey-whitish, with a few dark 

 grey scales, and sometimes a fuscous-grey dorsal streak. Legs 

 dark fuscous, ringed with whitish, posterior tibise suffused with 

 whitish. Forewings rather elongate-triangular, costa gently 

 arched, hindmargin obliquely rounded ; grey-whitish, irregularly 

 suffusedly mixed with pale greyish-fuscous, and with a few scattered 

 black scales ; a short black mark on middle of base ; lines black, 

 tolerably strong, tending to be interrupted ; first from | of costa 

 to I of inner margin, unevenly curved outwards ; second from 

 before | of costa to | of inner margin, dentate, sinuate inwards 

 below middle ; a very oblique transverse-linear black discal spot, 

 lower extremity terminating in a whitish ill-defined spot which 

 reaches and interrupts second line ; an indistinct pale strongly 

 dentate subterminal line, preceded and followed by darker shades ; 

 a hindmarginal row of black dots between veina : cilia whitish, 

 with a faint grey line, and sometimes light reddish-grey spots on 

 hindmarginal dots. Hindwings with hindmargin rounded, crenate, 

 inner margin long ; grey-whitish ; a fine oblique transverse linear 

 dark grey discal spot ; a sinuate dentate dark grey line beyond 

 middle, more or less indistinct or nearly obsolete ; an indistinct 

 whitish dentate subterminal line, preceded by a broad light 

 fuscous-grey shade, obsolete towards costa, and followed by a 

 narrower less distinct similar shade ; a hindmarginal row of black 

 dots between veins ; cilia grey-whitish, towards base reddish- 

 tinged. Forev^ings beneath grey, disc and inner margin paler, 

 apex white ; an oblique black discal spot. Hindwings beneath 

 whitish ; discal spot as above ; a transverse oval blackish blotch 

 at f, not nearly reaching mai'gins. 



Albany, West Australia ; from September to December, five 

 specimens on fences. 



82. Cryps. amaura, n. sp. 



5. 33-35 mm. Head, antennae, thorax, and abdomen pale 

 whitish-ochreous, more or less spxinkled with fuscous ; face Avith 



