BY E. MEYRICK B.A. 681 



oblique ; whitish, finely and densely irrorated with ashy-grey ; 

 costa with a few short blackish strigula? ; some blackish scales 

 towards inner margin near base ; outer edge of basal patch 

 indicated by an obscure blackish transverse line at one-third, in 

 one specimen forming a short erect ochreous-fuscous black- 

 margined streak from inner margin, reaching one-third across 

 wing ; central fascia narrow , oblique, ochreous-fuscous irregularly 

 margined with black, suffused with black in middle and on inner 

 margin, running from middle of costa to inner margin before 

 anal angle ; a blackish streak from apex along upper half of 

 hindmargin : cilia ashy-whitish, with two faint grey lines, and 

 obscurely barred with blackish. Hindwings fuscous-grey ; cilia 

 whitish, with two suffused grey lines. 



The male being as yet unknown, it is not certain whether the 

 species is correctly referred to this genus, but the general 

 similarity to S. ejectana, and the identity of all non-sexual 

 characters, are sufficient to warrant its position. The male may 

 perhaps have a tuft of raised scales on the forewings, as in S. 

 ejectana, and may also differ somewhat in marking. The female 

 may be easily known from S. ejectana by the clearer and lighter 

 groundcolour, and the well-defined entire central fascia, which in 

 S. ejectana is partial and suffused, as well as by the absence of 

 the dark fuscous longitudinal streak. 



Five specimens, all females, taken on open swampy ground at 

 Waratah on the Hunter Eiver, New South Wales, in January. 



2. Streps, ejectana, Walk. 



f Sciaphila ejectana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 350; (?) Sciaphila 

 ahconditana, ibid. 351 ; Sciaphila servilisana, ibid. 356; Sciaphila 

 saxana, ibid. 357 ; Conchylis ligyxiferana, ibid. 363). 



£ $ . 5J"-7". Head, palpi, and thorax grey irrorated with 



ashy-whitish, and with a few black scales, shoulders ochreous- 



tinged ; palpi not tufted. Antennce dark fuscous, in male 



thickened and notched at one-fifth from basal joint. Abdomen 



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