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wards, terminating in a slender silvery-whitish streak along hind- 

 margin : cilia whitish-fuscous, with a basal reddish-ochreous line. 

 Hindwings fuscous-grey. 



Sydney and Blackheath (3500 feet), New South Wales; 

 Warragul, Victoria ; Tasmania ; March to May, common. 



13. Hect. polyspila, n.sp. 



(J. 31 mm. Head, antennae, and thorax ochreous-fuscous. 

 Abdomen Jight brownish-ochreous. Forewings elongate-triangular, 

 costa sinuate, apex rounded, hind margin obliquely rounded con- 

 tinuously with inner margin ; fuscous ; veins and a broad costal 

 streak pale ochreous ; costal edge dark fuscous on basal | ; fuscous 

 portion strewn with numerous irregular suboval moderate whitish 

 spots : cilia whitish-ochreous, slenderly barred with fuscous. 

 Hindwings pale fuscous ; costa and veins towards costa posteriorly 

 ochreous ; cilia as in forewings. 



Wimmera, Victoria ; one specimen. 



5. Hepialus, F. 



Antenn8e \-\, in ^ simple. Palpi short or moderate, porrected, 

 with rough projecting hairs, terminal joint naked, subclavate. 

 Posterior tibiae densely rough-haired, sometimes with long pro- 

 jecting tuft above in ^. Forewings with vein 7 from angle, 

 8 from much before angle, 9 and 10 stalked from near 8. Hind- 

 wings as in forewings. 



The Australian species of this genus, which are all more or less 

 green, have generally been regarded as a distinct genus, under the 

 name of Gharagia^ but I am unable to discover any structural 

 difference from ordinary forms of the northern hemisphere, where 

 the genus is mainly resident. I cannot therefore separate them 

 generically, but they form an interesting subgroup. The larvae 

 of the Australian species feed in tunnels in the stems of trees or 

 shrubs, eating by preference the bark round the mouth of the 

 tunnel, and concealing themselves meanwhile under a broad 



