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termen sinuate; grey, sprinkled with whitish : cilia pale greyish- 

 ochreous. Hind wings grey; cilia light greyish-ochreous. 

 York, West Australia, in October; one specimen. 



42. M. sagittifera, Low. 



{Peltodora sagittifera, Low., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 1900, 416.) 



(J9. 11 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish, sometimes 

 sprinkled with dark fuscous. Palpi ochreous-whitish, second 

 joint with dark fuscous subapical band, tuft extremely short. 

 Antennae pale ochreous or whitish. Abdomen whitish, second 

 and third segments yellow-ochreous. Legs ochreous-whitish, 

 more or less irrorated with fuscous. Forewings pointed; whitish- 

 ochreous, mixed with whitish and sprinkled with dark fuscous 

 or blackish ; costal edge slenderly white ; plical stigma dis- 

 tinct, blackish, and sometimes first discal obliquely beyond it; 

 an elongate blackish dot below usual position of second discal 

 stigma : cilia whitish, sprinkled with blackish. Hindwings pale 

 grey or grey-whitish; cilia pale whitish-ochreous. 



Broken Hill, New South Wales, in September and October; 

 two specimens (the original type-specimen, and a second received 

 from Mr. Lower). 



43. M coniodes, n.sp. 



(J. 10-11 mm. Head and thorax whitish-grey-ochreous. Palpi 

 dark fuscous, apex of second joint white, tuft very short, lower 

 half of terminal joint white except base. Antennae whitish 

 ringed with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish- 

 ochreous. Legs dark fuscous ringed wdth whitish, hairs of pos- 

 terior tibiae whitish. Forewings pointed; light greyish-ochreous, 

 sprinkled with dark fuscous; stigmata blackish, plical obliquely 

 beyond first discal :^ cilia pale greyish-ochreous, with a subbasal 

 row of dots of black irroration. Hindwings light grey; cilia 

 whitish-ochreous. 



Quorn and Petersburg, South Australia, in October ; two 

 specimens. 

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