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in (J 8, in 9 3, apical ^ simple. Abdomen with a black 

 subapical ring on each segment. Forewings with hind margin 

 obliquely rounded; 10 sometimes connected with 9, 11 absent; 

 fuscous, densely irrorated with grey-whitish and with scattered 

 black scales ; first line only visible on lower half, fine, black, 

 straight, very oblique ; a dark grey discal dot, sometimes obsolete ; 

 median shade fine, indistinct, dark fuscous with a few black 

 scales, indistinctly acutely dentate and angulated near costa, 

 touching extremity of first line in middle ; second line represented 

 by two black dots near costa, and a somewhat sinuate black 

 line running from hindmargin below apex to ?- of inner margin, 

 nearly followed by a parallel obscure fuscous shade ; subterminal 

 obscurely paler, darker-margined, cloudy, dentate ; a fine black 

 hindmarginal line. Hindwings with hindmargin slightly rounded, 

 rather strongly waved ; colour, subterminal, and hindmarginal 

 lines as in forewings ; median shade slender, dark fuscous, 

 slightly curved ; a dark grey discal dot beyond this ; second line 

 slender, black, nearly straight, slightly bent near costa, nearly 

 followed by a parallel fuscous shade. 



Port Lincoln, South Australia ; Fremantle, West Australia ; 

 in October, four specimens. Distinguished from the other species 

 with grey colouring and blackish face by the peculiar disposition 

 of the slender black first and second lines ; the antennae of the 9 

 are pectinated as in S. cognata, but less strongly. 



26. Sel. leucoplecta, n.sp. 



<J. 25-27 mm. Face grey mixed with white. Forewings with 

 hindmargin obliquely rounded; 10 anastomosing with 9, 11 absent; 

 white, towards base and costa sprinkled with dark fuscous ; first 

 line cloudy, blackish, angulated above middle ; median shade 

 cloudy, fuscous, twice indented outwards ; second line slender, 

 black, forming an abrupt rounded projection posteriorly at 1-, and 

 an obtuse angulation at J ; posterior area beyond second line 

 wholly fuscous, except subterminal line, which forms a narrow 

 white fascia from apex to anal angle, suffusedly bordered with 



