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and whitish scales ; hindmarginal hue blackish : cilia pale grey, 

 whitish at extremities of longitudinal streaks, and with a small 

 whitish spot about middle, and a grey fuscous indistinct parting 

 line ; acove apex and below anal angle fuscous. Hindwings 

 whitish, subtransparent, suffused with pale fuscous grey at apex 

 and on upper margin ; cilia white. 



Belongs to the section of which the European pascuellus L. is 

 typical, but differs from all other species by the broad silvery- 

 white inner-marginal streak. Occurs near Sydney, also about 

 Brisbane and Rockhampton. It would appear to have an extra- 

 ordinary range for an insect of this class, being stated by Walker 

 to occur also in Ceylon and South Africa. 



Cr lativittalis, Whr. Gat. 171 ; halterellus Z. Cr. 33. 

 11" — 14". Head ochreous-brown, with a very slender (sometimes 

 obsolete) short white line above each eye. Labial palpi short, 

 hardly longer than head, ochreous-brown or dark brown, whitish 

 beneath ; maxillary palpi ochreous-brown. Antenuse dark fuscous. 

 Thorax ochreous-brown or dark brown, anterior margin narrowly 

 and a lateral marginal stripe silvery white. Abdomen whitish, 

 slightly tinged with ochreous. Anterior and middle legs dark 

 fuscous, posterior legs whitish. Forewings moderately broad, 

 dilated, hindmargin nearly straight, lightly rounded beneath ; 

 varying from brownish-ochreous to deep brown; a naiTow silvery- 

 white costal streak from base to a little before apex, posteriorly 

 slightly dilated ; a very broad straight silvery-white, strongly 

 black-margined central streak from base to hindmargin, its upper 

 apical angle produced upwards into a tooth along hindmargin to 

 apex, the lower part of its hindmarginal edge also black-margined: 

 cilia ochreous-brown, darker greyish-fuscous at anal angle, with 

 indistinct darker parting-line. Hindwings pale greyish-fuscous, 

 whitish towards base, in ^ with a slender pencil of brown hairs 

 in a depression at base ; cilia whitish, tinged towards base with 

 ochreous-grey. 



Easily known by the up- turned apex of the single median 

 streak, and remarkably short palpi. A common species, occurring 

 round Sydney, and up to the summits of the Blue Mountains ; 

 also at Melbourne and King George's Sound ; from October to 

 March. Walker's name has one year's priority. 



