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above tornus; a median streak commencing in a fine point near 

 base, gradually broadening and bifurcating shortly before termen; 

 two streaks between these, the upper from | to termen, the lower 

 from middle to termen; a streak above median from middle to 

 termen, and a short subcostal streak from § to termen; cilia 

 whitish-grey, becoming grey towards apex. Hind wings narrower 

 in Q; termen rounded, in Q wavy; whitish; cilia whitish. 

 Underside fuscous- whitish, with a fuscous discal dot in each 

 wing. 



The $ is uniformly smaller and narrower-winged than the £. 

 Allied to A. leucaniata, the two forming a distinct section of 

 the genus. 



N.S.W.: Mt. Kosciusko (5,000-6,000 ft.), in February, abund- 

 ant in the moist peaty valleys. My examples (2^, 6(j)) taken in 

 the end of February and beginning of March are wasted, espe- 

 cially the males. 



222. Amelora uhynchophora. 



(Jhlenias(\) rhynchophora, Low., Tr. R.8.S.A., 1893, p. 163. 



J". 35-36 mm. Head grey mixed with whitish; face with long 

 frontal tuft. Palpi long (3^); grey. Antennae grey; pectina- 

 tions in g 7. Thorax grey. Abdomen whitish, irrorated with 

 purple-grey. Legs dark fuscous, irrorated with whitish and 

 purple; posterior pair mostly whitish; posterior tibiae in £ not 

 dilated. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa moderately arched 

 at base, thence straight, apex round-pointed, termen bowed, 

 oblique; whitish-grey, partly suffused with purple grey; lines 

 dark fuscous; a line from \ costa very obliquely outwards, then 

 obtusely angled, and again with an obtuse tooth outwards above 

 dorsum; a longitudinal streak traverses each of these teeth, the 

 subdorsal streak being connected with second line; second line 

 from apex to |- dorsum, sharply and strongly serrate ; cilia 

 whitish, barred with fuscous, and with a purplish line before 

 apices. Hindwings with termen rounded; whitish-grey; cilia 

 whitish-grey, bases barred with fuscous. Underside grey, with 

 some fuscous and purple irroration. 



The unusually long palpi are exceptional in this genus. In 



