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in the middle of the wing ; a hindmarginal row of ochreous-fuscous 

 dots ; a dark suffused streak uniting jSrst and second lines along 

 inner margin, two minute but conspicuous black dots in disc, one 

 each immediately before 1st and 2nd lines : cilia creamy-white. 

 Hindwings and cilia creamy-white. 



Queensland ; in scrubs and at light. 



Meyrick in his monograph refers to this as a species unknown 

 to him. He was afterwards able to identify it from specimens I 

 sent. Walker's description is incomplete and not absolutely 

 correct. I therefore redescribe it. 



2. NUDARIA OBDUCTA, sp.nov. 



(J9. 12-16 mm. Head, palpi, and antennse light grey. Thorax 

 grey, abdomen whitish-grey, darker grey at base of segments. 

 Forewings with costa rounded, hindmargin rounded, light grey, 

 with spots and blotches of darker grey ; a streak of black-grey 

 along centre of wing at base ; costal line dark fuscous-grey, 

 interruptedly thickened with darker spots ; veins grey, with a 

 conspicuous row of hindmarginal black-grey dots ; a diffused grey 

 fascia from ^ costa to ^ inner margin, where it forms a conspicuous 

 black-grey blotch, thence sujQfused along inner margin, becoming 

 obsolete toward anal angle ; an oblong patch of black-grey from f 

 to ^ costa for one-fourth the breadth of wing ; an angled black- 

 grey blotch at 4 costa : cilia white-grey. Hindwings white lightly 

 tinted with grey ; hindmarginal line darker grey ; cilia as fore- 

 wings. 



Brisbane to Mackay ; in scrub, rare. 



3. NuDARiA Barnardi, sp.nov. 



(J 9- 12-14 mm. Head whitish-grey. Antennae ochreous. 

 Thorax and abdomen ochreous-white. Forewings with costa 

 gently rounded, hindmargin rounded, white, semi-hyaline, thinly 

 scaled ; veins indistinctly ochreous, darker on hindmargin, in ^ a 

 dark fuscous-grey fold of wing from opposite middle of base to 

 costa at f ; three or four light ochreous indistinct spots along 

 costa, more marked in 9 ; a row of hindmarginal dots of same 



