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curved at costal extremity ; a blackish discal dot ; subterminal 

 hardly perceptibly paler, dentate, sometimes margined anteriorly 

 by a series of irregular blackish spots ; a hindmargiual series of 

 black dots. Hindwings with hindmargin rounded, waved ; colour, 

 second line, and hindmarginal dots as in forewings, but colour 

 rather paler, second line almost or quite straight throughout. 



Melbourne, Victoria; two specimens taken by Mr. Ray nor. 

 Perhaps this species may vary as much as the next, but it is easily 

 distinguished from it by the slender thorax, somewhat longer 

 antennal ciliations, slightly bent hindmargin of forewings, more 

 strongly rounded hindmargin of hindwings, and less dilated tibiae. 



71. Id. apicata, Gn. 



( Idiocies apicata, Gn. IX, 40; /. mitigata, ib. 40, pi. xiii, 1; /. 

 inspirata, ib. 40, Feld. pi. cxxiv, 3 ; I. rinata, ib. 40 ; /. intro- 

 ducta, Walk. 30 ; Tacparia zalissaria, ib. 234 ; Choara siculoides, 

 ib. 291 ; PhaUaria conductaria, ib. 1525 ; P. inductaria, ib. 1526 ; 

 Idiodes punctiger, Feld. pi. cxxiv, 4. ) 



(j£. 37-44 mm. Antennal ciliations of $ J. Thorax stout. 

 Posterior tibiae in £ very strongly dilated. Forewings with apex 

 acute, prominent, hindmargin strongly bowed ; pale greyish- 

 ochreous, brownish-ochreous, or light fuscous, strewn with more or 

 less faint dark strigulae, and a few blackish scales ; costal edge 

 sometimes white on anterior § ; first line thick, cloudy, dark grey 

 mixed with brown, curved and twice angulated, but almost always 

 wholly absent or represented by two or three blackish dots only ; 

 a black discal clot ; median shade usually absent, sometimes 

 partially marked with dark fuscous or reddish-fuscous on lower 

 half ; second line rather dark fuscous or hardly perceptibly darker 

 than groundcolour, sometimes marked with black dots on veins, 

 almost straight, costal extremity usually obsolete, sometimes 

 margined posteriorly by a whitish-ochreous or light reddish line, 

 sometimes nearly followed by a parallel fuscous or dark fuscous 

 shade continued to apex of wing ; subterminal obsolete or indicated 

 by cloudy blackish margins on a patch above middle and a spot at 

 anal angle onlv, rarely on whole of lower half; a hindmarginal 

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