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termen near apex, more or less suffused with fuscous posteriorly, 

 sometimes tinged with brassy-3'ellowish on upper edge anteriorly : 

 cilia ochreous-whitish, somewhat sprinkled with fuscous, some- 

 times with a postmedian fuscous line, with a dark fuscous apical 

 bar. Hind wings grey or pale grey, paler anteriorly; cilia whitish- 

 ochreous. 



Glen Innes (4500 feet). Orange (3000 feet), Blackheath (3500 

 feet), and Sydney, New South Wales; Melbourne and Heales- 

 ville, Victoria; Hobart, Tasmania; Mount Lofty, South Austra- 

 lia ; from September to April, sixteen specimens ; a common 

 species. 



18. Gelechia, Zell. 



Antennae |, in ^ simple or shortly ciliated, basal joint moder- 

 ate, without pecten, or with a few fugitive hair-scales. Labial 

 palpi very long, recurved, second joint thickened with more or 

 less rough sometimes expanded and furrowed scales beneath, 

 terminal joint almost or quite as long as or longer than second, 

 acute. Forewings : 2 and 3 parallel, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa. 

 Hind wings 1 or over 1, trapezoidal, apex more or less pointed, 

 termen sinuate, cilia |-H; 3 and 4 connate, 5 somewhat approxi- 

 mated to 4, 6 and 7 approximated, connate, or stalked. 



A very large and universally distributed genus, but much less 

 prominent in Australia than in other regions, its place being 

 largely taken b}' Protolechia. Imago with forewings elongate, 

 more or less pointed. Larva usually in spun leaves or shoots. 



1. Hinclwings over 1 2. 



Hindwings 1 or hardly 1 7. 



-2. Forewings with defined dark transverse fasciae 3. 



Forewings without defined dark fasciae 4. 



3. Forewings with four dark fasciae 84. desmanihes. 



Forewings with three dark fasciae 83. nephelomhra. 



4. Head and thorax ochreous- white 88. anthochra. 



Head and thorax not white 5. 



5. Forewings with black subcostal and subdorsal dots 



near base 86. hathropis. 



Forewings without such dots 6. 



