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and slightly above first and second ; a transverse row of very 

 ill-defined small blackish, spots from costa at § very obliquely 

 outwards nearly to apex, thence very sharply bent and continued 

 very near hindmargin to inner margin before anal angle ; a row 

 of indistinct elongate blackish spots along hindmargin and apical 

 third of costa : cilia whitish-grey, with a blackish line, sometimes 

 obsolete. Hindwings light grey, in female slightly darker ; cilia 

 whitish-grey, with a very faint darker line. 



Eecognisable by the very coarse black irroration ; allied to the 

 two following, but with the discal dots not transformed into 

 strigula3. 



Common near Sydney, and at Blackhoath in the Blue Moun- 

 tains (3,500 feet), in September and October, at rest on the trunks 

 of fibrous-barked Eucalypti. 



105. Eiil. grammatica, n. sp. 



Media, alis ant. griseo-albidis, nigro-sparsis, strigula ad costee 

 basim, aliis disci quinque circulatim dispositis, serie punctorum 

 postica angulata alteraque marginis postici nigris ; post, dilute 

 griseis. 



(^ . 23 mm. Head and thorax grey mixed with white. Palpi 

 with second joint blackish, mixed with whitish towards base, 

 with a white apical ring, terminal joint white, extreme apex 

 blackish. Antennse whitish, slenderly annulated with grey. 

 Abdomen whitish-grey, anal tuft ochreous- whitish. Anterior 

 and middle legs dark fuscous, tarsal joints with whitish-apical 

 rings ; posterior legs ochreous- whitish. Fore wings elongate, not 

 dilated, costa gently arched towards base and apex, rest nearly 

 straight, apex almost acute, hindmargin very oblique, almost 

 straight ; whitish, irregularly mixed with light fuscous-grey, and 

 with scattered dark fuscous-grey scales ; a short blackish very 

 oblique curved linear streak from base of costa, almost meeting 

 first discal spot ; a blackish irregular spot in disc at ^, and a 

 second on fold obliquely beyond it ; an elongate blackish 



