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lighter towards base ; cilia blackish-fuscous, with a black line 

 near base. 



Very similar to the preceding in all respects except the blackish 

 hind- wings ; the fore- wings are also darker and the markings 

 rather clearer. 



Two females taken on garden fences in Sydney, in November. 



It is very probable that the larva of this species also is attached 

 to some one of the several cultivated species of Ficiis. 



Sim. combinatana, Wh\, Brit. Mus. Cat., 456. 

 ^ . Qh". Head and thorax deep ochreous-brown, with a few 

 white scales. Palpi white at base, second joint clothed with four 

 whorls of black white-tipped scales, terminal joint black with 

 three slender white rings. Anteun?e black, annulated with white, 

 in (^ with long ciliations. Abdomen blackish, with a few whitish 

 scales. Legs dark fuscous, thickly irrorated with whitish, tarsi 

 with indistinct whitish rings, posterior tibiae clothed with dense 

 hair-scales. Fore-wings slightly dilated, hind-margin distinctly 

 waved; blackish-fuscous, tinged with reddish-brown on costa 

 beyond middle, and within each pair of transverse lines ; some 

 purple-whitish scales irregularly arranged transversely near base ; 

 four transverse cloudy lines of purple-whitish scales, arranged in 

 pairs, and starting from small white costal spots ; fii'st pair from 

 \ of costa to ^ of inner-margin, rather curved outwards, irregularly 

 toothed ; second pair from f of costa to just before anal angle, 

 angulated outwards beneath costa, but indistinct and irregular ; 

 a streak of purple -whitish scales from aj)ex very near but not on 

 hind-margin, reaching to middle ; a second similar streak from 

 middle of hind-margin, immediately beyond end of first, continued 

 along hind-margin, not extending to anal angle ; cilia dark fuscous 

 containing a cloudy white basal spot above and another below 

 middle of hind-margin. Hind-wings rather narrow, hind-margin 

 strongly sinuate below middle, anal angle prominent ; dark 

 fuscous, broadly blackish along hind-margin, with two rather 



