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apical rings. Fore- wings pale golden-oehreous on disc, elsewhere 

 especially on inner-margin, suffused with, dark metallic bronze, 

 with pearly-white obscurely dark-margined markings, consisting 

 of four costal and four dorsal streaks or spots, and a small discal 

 spot ; first three costal streaks before and beyond middle and at 

 f , slender, short, oblique, with violet reflections ; fourth closely 

 after third not oblique ; first dorsal spot conspicuous, broadly 

 wedgeshaped, oblique and curved outwards; second rather smaller, 

 triangular, not oblique, between first and second costal ; third 

 still smaller, triangular, opposite third costal ; fourth minute, 

 indistinct, opposite fourth costal; discal spot small, circular, 

 between second and third pairs of streaks ; apical space suffused 

 with blackish ; cilia white round apex, with a black line, thence 

 fuscous-grey. Hind- wings and cilia fuscous-grey. 



Nearly allied to the preceding, but much less brilliant, and the 

 first three dorsal spots are much broader and more conspicuous. 

 Not common ; in Acacia groves near Parramatta, and on fences 

 in Sydney. I once bred the species, almost certainly from a branch 

 of Acacia decurrens, fLegurninoscBj, which was in my room ; but 

 the larva had not been noticed. 



Note. — I have found a Gracilaria larva mining flat whitish 

 blotches in the phyUodia of Acacia longifolia, which I have not 

 yet succeeded in breeding ; it is probably an allied species. 



Grac. alysidota, n. sp. 



^ $ . 3"-4^". Head white, with a dark fuscous stripe on sides. 

 Palpi whitish, maxillary palpi very short. Antennae not longer 

 than fore-wings, dark fuscous, apical third white. Thorax dark 

 fuscous, with a white spot in front. Abdomen dark fuscous, 

 beneath white. Legs greyish-fuscous, apex of tarsal joints 

 indistinctly whitish, posterior tibiae stiff-haired near apex. Fore- 

 wings dark fuscous, towards apex sometimes suffused with 

 ochreous, with five costal and four dorsal streaks, and a streak 

 along inner-margin white, blackish-margined ; first costal streak 

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