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whitish towards tips, with a white band above apex, and a sharp 

 black basal line along upper half of hindmargin. Hindwings 

 light grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; Georges Bay, Tasmania ; Gerald- 

 ton and Perth, West Australia; from October to Januaiy, four 

 specimens. I have also a specimen from Bathurst, New South 

 Wales, which differs only in not showing any trace of the black 

 basal line in cilia ; it is probably a variety only. 



173. Nem. candescens, n.sp. 



^2- 12-15 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi dark fuscous, 

 intei'nally white. Antennae fuscous, base white. Abdomen 

 whitish. Legs dark fuscous, posterior pair whitish. Forewings 

 elongate, rather narrow, costa moderately arched, apex tolerably 

 acute, hindmargin extremely obliquely rounded ; snow-white ; a 

 rather dark fuscous streak along costa from near base almost or 

 quite to apex, attenuated towards extremities, sometimes irregular 

 posterioi'ly ; a slender sometimes irregular dark fuscous streak 

 along hindmargin from apex to anal angle : cilia ochi'eous-whitish, 

 round apex with basal half white, terminal half light fuscous. 

 Hindwings light grey or whitish-grey, slightly ochreous-tinged ; 

 cilia ochreous-whitish. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; Quorn, South Australia ; from 

 August to October, rather common. Larva (until two-thirds 

 grown) apodal, moniliform, segments very deeply incised, head 

 small, retractile ; glossy dark red, sides thinly speckled with pale 

 yellow ; second and third segments with an irregular yellow-white 

 dorsal mark ; head black, on crown whitish, with a pale line on 

 each side of face ; it mines a large irregular l)lotch beneath uppei'- 

 surface of leaves of Persoonia lanceolata (Proteaceae). Afterwards 

 it becomes sixteen-legged, tolerably cylindrical, posteriorly attenu- 

 ated, with long scattered hairs ; above dark blackish-purple tinged 

 with carmine, on sides pale greenish-grey ; spots dark grey ; head 

 small, pale amber-ochreous, marked with black : in this stage it 

 feeds externally, unprotected, gnawing surface of leaf. The larva 

 feeds in July and August : the sudden transformation in structure 



