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270. P. tumultuosa, n.sp. 



^9. 11-13 iniD. Head and thorax white, usually mote or less 

 irrorated with fuscous. Palpi fuscous sprinkled with white. 

 Aiiteniiai fuscous, sometimes ringed wdth whitish. A))domen 

 grey- whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa moder- 

 ately arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather strongly 

 oblique; light fuscous, sprinkled and sometimes indistinctly 

 strigulated with dark fuscous, sometimes suffusedl}' mixed with 

 white; a broad white more or less suffused streak above middle 

 from base to apex, reaching costa towards base, sometimes strewn 

 with scattered dark fuscous strigulee, low-er edge usually sharply 

 defined anteriorly, sometimes marked w4th two dark fuscous spots 

 representing discal stigmata; three or four small cloudy dark 

 spots on costa posteriorly : cilia whitish with dark fuscous ante- 

 median shade and usually two or three dark fuscous patches? 

 sometimes wholly dark fuscous except a whitish patch above 

 apex. Hindwings and cilia grey-whitish. 



Murrurundi, Sydney, and Bathurst, New South Wales; Gis- 

 borne, Victoria; Perth and Albany, West Australia; from August 

 to November, and in February, ten specimens. 



271. P. triaria, n.sp. 



(J. 18-19 mm. Head and thorax fuscous, slightly reddish- 

 tinged. Palpi rather dark fuscous, whitish beneath tow^ards 

 base. Antennae rather dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-fuscous. 

 Forewings elongate, narrow, costa moderately arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded; bronz}'- fuscous, obscurely 

 darker strigulated, on submedian fold suffused with darker and 

 purplish-tinged; a broad suffused whitish streak above middle 

 from base to apical portion of costa, anteriorly sharply defined 

 beneath, reaching costa from near base to near middle, sometimes 

 marked with an irregular dark fuscous spot forming an indenta- 

 tion on lower margin at J, and an oblique dark fuscous spot in 

 middle, posteriorly narrowed and irrorated with fuscous striguhis; 

 two inwardly oblique dark fuscous marks on costa at r! and ff : 



