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27. M. astempliella, n.sp. 



(59- 9-11 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi white, second 

 joint dark fuscous except apex, tuft long, loose, quadrangular, 

 apex of terminal joint dark fuscous. Antennce grey. Abdomen 

 grey, in ^ whitish-suffused. Legs dark fuscous, apex of joints 

 and hairs of posterior tibiae whitish. Forewings long-pointed; 

 fuscous, irrorated with blackish-fuscous; a broad shining white 

 costal streak from base to middle, thence leaving costa and 

 narrowed to J; stigmata blackish-fuscous, irregular and some- 

 times dash-like, plical very obliquely beyond first discal; usually 

 some undefined spots of whitish suffusion towards costa pos- 

 teriorly and termen : cilia whitish-ocbreous, round apex and on 

 costa whiter, with black basal dot at apex, and one or two others 

 beneath it, and two indistinct fuscous lines round apex. Hind- 

 wings grey; cilia whitish-fuscous. 



Port Lincoln, South Australia; Geraldton, West Australia; in 

 October and November, fourteen specimens. Very similar to 

 M. platyleuca, but, apart from the absence of the white dorsal 

 streak, certainly distinct by the much more pointed forewings. 



28. J/, centrosema, n.sp. 



(J. 11-12 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi white, second 

 joint dark fuscous except base and apex, tuft long, loose, quad- 

 rangular. Antennse grey. Abdomen whitish-grey. Legs dark 

 grey, apex of joints and hairs of posterior tibige whitish. Fore- 

 wings long-pointed; fuscous; a shining white costal streak from 

 base to apex, narrowed towards extremities, lower edge straight 

 and edged with dark fuscous; an undefined rather broad streak 

 of white suffusion along dorsum and termen : cilia whitish- 

 ochreous, with a dark fuscous apical bar. Hindwings whitish- 

 grey; cilia whitish-ochreous. 



Sydney, New South Wales; Adelaide, South Australia; in 

 September and October, three specimens. Differs from Jf. 

 oxyphanes by the much more pointed forewings. 



