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dilated downwards so that anterior edge is very oblique and 

 touches preceding fascia on dorsum, enclosing black plical and 

 first discal stigmata, placed vertically ; a white fascia at f, more 

 or less grey- sprinkled towards dorsum, narrowed in middle, 

 enclosing blackish second discal stigma ; a whitish apical dot : 

 cilia light grey, round apex mixed with black on basal half. 

 Hindwings grey; cilia light grey. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; in October and November, ten 

 specimens. Larva elongate, cylindrical, with scattered whitish 

 hairs ; ochreous- whitish ; head, a plate on 2, and another on 13 

 brownish-ochreous: feeds on foliaceous lichens, burrowing beneath 

 them, on tree-trunks, in September and October. Pupa in an 

 elongate flattened cocoon covered with lichen-dust, exposed on 

 trunk. 



107. P. pileata, n.sp. 



(J^. 7-10 mm. Head white. Palpi white, towards base dark 

 fuscous. Antennie, thorax, abdomen, and legs dark fuscous, tarsi 

 ringed with whitish. Forewings dark fuscous ; three narrow 

 whitish fascife, tending to be interrupted in middle, first at \, 

 second at i, l^oth slightly curved, third at 4, straight : cilia 

 fuscous, with a dark fuscous median line, a white basal dot at 

 apex, tips white above this. Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia 

 fuscous. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; in October and December, three 

 .specimens. 



108. P. anarithma, Meyr. 



(Proterocosma anarithma, Meyr., Trans. N, Zeal. Inst. 1888, 

 175.) 



(J9. 7-10 mm. Head and thorax brownish-ochreous, face 

 ochreous-whitish. Palpi ochreous-whitish, second joint with basal 

 half and subapical ring irrorated with blackish, terminal joint 

 irrorated with dark fuscous. Antennae whitish-ochreous, ringed 

 with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey-whitish or grey. Legs dark 

 grey, ringed with whitish. Forewings brownish-ochreous, some- 

 times sprinkled with dark fuscous; black dots on base of costa and 



