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162. P. xuthias, n.sp. 



9. 15 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, slightly reddish-tinged. 

 Palpi whitish-ochreous, second joint much mixed with blackish, 

 terminal joint blackish except towards base above, as long as 

 second. Antennae fuscous, obscurely pale-ringed. Thorax reddish- 

 ochreous irrorated with whitish. Abdomen whitish-ochreous 

 mixed with fuscous. Legs dark fuscous, anterior and middle pair 

 ringed with reddish-ochreous, posterior pair with whitish. Fore- 

 wings with costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen 

 extremely obliquely rounded; 2 and 3 stalked; ferruginous, 

 becoming fuscous towards anterior half of dorsum; a fuscous 

 streak along fold, and a fuscous erect mark from tornus, reaching 

 § across wing; costal edge blackish, with oblique blackish wedge- 

 shaped marks at base, ~, and before and beyond middle; some 

 black scales in a longitudinal row above middle; stigmata blackish, 

 undefined, plical obliquely beyond first discal; an angulated series 

 of black dots beneath posterior third of costa and along termen : 

 cilia ferruginous-ochreous, sprinkled with fuscous and with a 

 fuscous bar above apex, on termen with apical half whitish- 

 fuscous. Hindwings over 1, apex round-pointed, termen slightly 

 sinuate; grey; cilia pale grey. 



Wirrabara, South Australia, in October; one specimen. 



163. P. orthanotis, Low. 



(Gelechia orthanotos (later corrected to orthanotis), Low., Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1900, 50.) 



$. 18 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi ochreous-whitish, 

 irrorated externally with dark fuscous except at apex of joints, 

 terminal joint as long as second. Antennae whitish-ochreous 

 ringed with fuscous. Thorax whitish-ochreous, with blackish 

 subdorsal stripes. .Abdomen blackish, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. 

 Legs pale ochreous, anterior and middle pair spotted with dark 

 fuscous. Forewings with costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, 

 termen very obliquely rounded; 2 and 3 stalked; whitish-ochreous, 

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