BY E. MEYRICK, B.A. 527 



margin above it, connected with the five subquadrate costal spots 

 by curved rows of blackish scales : cilia grey, with two obscure 

 blackish lines. Hind wings whitish-grey spotted with dark grey ; 

 cilia whitish-grey, with a dark grey line near base. 



A dull-looking species, distinguished by its grey colouring, 

 with darker grey markings ; the female is more obscure than 

 the male. 



Tolerably common in shady well-sheltered spots in the bush, 

 generally amongst rocks, near Sydney and Parramatta, and also 

 taken at Murrurundi, and at Blackheath on the Blue Mountains ; 

 an early spring insect, occuring in August and September, and 

 on the mountains in October. 



5. Dipt, imbriferana, n. sp. 



<$ ? . 4"-5£". Head and palpi whitish mixed with grey. 

 Antenna) whitish. Thorax fuscous-grey, mixed with whitish on 

 sides. Abdomen grey, sides and anal tuft whitish. Legs whitish, 

 anterior and middle tibise and all tarsi suffusedly banded with 

 dark fuscous. Forewings rather elongate, costa moderately 

 arched, hindmargin obliquely rounded; whitish, sometimes faintly 

 clouded with grey ; costa and inner margin obscurely strigulated 

 with fuscous-grey ; basal patch light fuscous-grey, outer edge 

 extending from one-fourth of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, 

 angulated in middle ; central fascia fuscous-grey, margined with 

 dark fuscous, moderately narrow towards costa, rather broader 

 beneath, running from middle of costa to middle of inner margin, 

 angulated in middle ; an obscure fuscous-grey cloudy spot on 

 anal angle ; a dark fuscous-grey spot on costa at three-fourths, 

 connected with middle of hindmargin by an obscure line ; apex 

 sometimes clouded with grey : cilia whitish, with a grey line near 

 base. Hindwings grey, darker posteriorly ; cilia grey, with a 

 darker line near base. 



