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sinuate, sometimes nearly followed by an obscure ochreous shade ; 

 subterminal obscurely paler, subdentate, anteriorly margined by a 

 darker fuscous shade ; a hindmarginal series of blackish dots, con 

 nected by a fine line. Hind wings with hind margin rounded, 

 crenulate ; colour and markings as in forewings, but first line 

 absent, second line hardly sinuate; a transverse dark fuscous discal 

 mark beyond median shade. 



Q. 12-14 mm. Wings exceedingly narrow, apex suddenly 

 dilated, angles acute, hindmargin dentate ; colour and markings as 

 in £, but lines blacker and more sharply marked. 



Brisbane, Queensland ; Sydney, New South Wales ; Mount 

 Lofty, South Australia ; also occurs in New Zealand ; from July 

 to January, rather common, attached to Leptospermum. 



13. Psilosticha, n.g. 



Face with tolerably appressed scales. Tongue developed. Palpi 

 short, porrected, rough-scaled, terminal joint very short. Antennae 

 in (J simple, shortly ciliated. Thorax not crested, somewhat hairy 

 beneath. Femora glabrous; posterior tibise in <J dilated (?). 

 Forewings in <J with fovea ; 11 rising out of 10, running into 12. 

 Hindwings normal. 



At present confined to the following species. It is allied to 

 Ectropis, but further material is required to fix its relationship. 



47. Psil. mactaria, Gn. 



( Tephrosia mactaria, Gn. IX, 270 ; Boarmia attacta, Walk. 392 ; 

 Tephrosia integraria, ib. 420 ; T. absorpta, ib. 420.) 



(J$. 30-31 mm. Face white, with a black median bar. Fore- 

 wings with hindmargin bowed, slightly waved ; white, irregularly 

 irr orated with fuscous and black ; first, median, and second lines 

 slender, irregularly subdentate, dark fuscous or black, tending to 

 form dots on veins and larger ones on costa ; first curved, nearly 

 preceded by a grey line ; median curved above middle, preceded 

 by a black discal dot ; second curved outwards on upper half, 

 sinuate inwards below middle, nearly followed in <J by a dark 

 grey, in 5 by a fuscous thicker shade, strongest on lower half; 



