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markings are sometimes wholly confused or obsolete ; a pale 

 oblique mark from inner margin near base, margined on each side 

 with blackish, is generally conspicuous but sometimes obsolete : 

 cilia with basal half ochreous-brown^ terminal half white, sharply 

 barred with dark fuscous. Hindwings rather dark fuscous; costa 

 in (J suffused with whitish-ochreous or yellow-ochreous ; cilia as 

 in forewings. 



Melbourne and Warragul, Victoria ; Deloraine and Hobart, 

 Tasmania ; from October to December, common. A very variable 

 species. 



4. Hectomanes, n.g. 



Antennae j-J, in ^ shortly bipectinated throughout. Tongue 

 present, short. Palpi very short, clothed with long rough pro- 

 jecting hairs. All tibiae and anterior tarsi clothed with dense 

 rough hairs. Forewings with veins 7 and 8 stalked from angle, 9 

 and 10 stalked from near before angle, 11 from before middle. 

 Hindwings as in forewings, but veins 7 and 8 sometimes from a 

 point. 



Differs from all in the structure of veins 7 and 8. Walker has 

 applied the generic name Fraus to a species of this genus, but 

 upon investigation it appears (1) that he adopted it as a MS. 

 name of Stephens, (2) that he misread it, Stephens having 

 apparently intended to write Praus, and (3) that this name (Gk. 

 rvpavs) ought to be written Prays, and it is therefore already 

 preoccupied by Curtis for a genus of Lepidoptera ; I have accord- 

 ingly rejected Walker's name. 



1. Forewings reddish-ochreous 12. simulans _$. 



Forewings fuscous 2. 



2. Forewings with strong white streak from base 



to apex 12. simulans ^. 



Forewings with streak incomplete or absent... 3. 



3. Cilia fuscous 11. noserodes. 



Cilia whitish-ochreous, barred with fuscous... 13. polyspila. 



