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1. Forewings with well-marked pale dorsal streak 2. 

 Forewings without pale dorsal streak 3. 



2. Head ferruginous-ochreous 71. ferruginella. 



Head ochreous-whitish 70. ethelella. 



3. Forewings dark fuscous with white blotches 68. meliorella. 

 Forewings whitish-ochreous with dark fuscous 



blotch 69. argillacea. 



68. Blah, meliorella, Walk. 



(Tinea meliorella, Walk. 483; T. oecophoroides, ib. 1005; T. 

 vlvipara, Scott, Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. Wales, I. 33, pi. 4.) 



(^9- 12-21 mm. Head white. Palpi blackish-fuscous, tip white. 

 Antennae dark-fuscous, towards apex more whitish. Thorax 

 blackish or dark fuscous, with a white anterior spot. Abdomen 

 pale ochreous-yellowish. Legs blackish, posterior pair pale 

 ochreous yellowish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa 

 gently arched, apex roundpointed, hindmargin very obliquely 

 rounded ; ochreous-fuscous or purplish-fuscous, mixed or suffused 

 with blackish-fuscous ; markings white, sometimes ochreous-tinged ; 

 a large trapezoidal blotch occupying baaal ? of wing except base 

 and a streak along costa ; a large semioval blotch on costa beyond 

 middle ; a variable spot on anal angle, sometimes nearly obsolete ; 

 a variable spot on costa before apex, and another on hindmargin 

 beneath apex, their extremities sometimes almost coalescing : cilia 

 white, with broad dark fuscous bauds at apex and above anal 

 angle. Hind wings fuscous-purplish, sometimes brassy-tinged; cilia 

 pale whitish-yellowish, sometimes with a dark grey suffusion at 

 apex. 



Duaringa, Toowoomba (2000 feet), and Brisbane, Queensland ; 

 ■Sydney, Bowenfels, and Bathurst (2500 feet), New South Wales ; 

 Melbourne and Warragul, Victoria; Wirrabara, Mount Lofty, 

 and Port Lincoln, South Australia ; Gerald ton and Albany, West 

 Australia; from June to February, common and probably of 

 universal distribution on the main land, but not yet found in 

 Tasmania. Scott observed this species to be viviparous ; there is 



