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98. Chlen. arietaria, Gn. 



(Chlenias arietaria, Gn. X, 239 ; Chemerina cuneifera, Walk. 

 1155; Ciampa defixella, ib. Cr. 180; Chlenias crambaria, Felcl. 

 pi. cxxxiii, 12.) 



(JQ. 33-38 mm. Face with long horny projecting median 

 plate, angularly emarginate at extremity, and a horny ridge on 

 lower margin. Antennal pectinations in $ 8. Abdomen clothed 

 with shining brownish-ochreous scales towards base. Forewir.^s 

 very elongate-triangular, narrower in £, hindmargin obliquely 

 rounded; light fuscous, mixed with dark fuscous and whitish, 

 posteriorly and on subcostal and dorsal streaks often suffused 

 with pale ochreous ; veins more or less marked with white in 

 disc ; spaces between veins and within cell marked with blackish 

 streaks except towards costa, these streaks sometimes more or 

 less wholly obsolete; lines dentate, dark fuscous, confused and 

 incomplete, first angulated in middle, second nearly straight ; 

 subterminal slender, white, dentate. Hindwings with hindmargin 

 sinuate-rounded ; grey-whitish, towards hindmargin more greyish- 

 tinged. 



Newcastle, Sydney, and Bathurst (2300 feet), New South 

 Wales ; Melbourne, Victoria ; Adelaide, South Australia ; in 

 April and May, rather common. The variety with the black 

 streaks suppressed has at first sight a distinct appearance, but 

 all the intermediate forms occur. 



99. Chlen. melanoxysta, n.sp. 



9. 35 mm. Head and thorax light reddish ; face rather 

 protuberant, pale ochreous ; thorax with some blackish-grey 

 scales. Forewings elongate-triangular, hindmargin bowed, oblique, 

 slightly waved ; pale ochreous-browhish, irrorated with fuscous ; 

 a costal streak, and parts of veins, irrorated with dark red ; 

 numerous scattered cloudy blackish-grey dots ; first line obsolete ; 

 second line cloudy, fuscous, very indistinct, hardly curved ; 

 subterminal indicated by cloudy fuscous indistinct anterior 

 margin, marked with blackish-grey above middle and on a dot 

 at I from costa ; a strong black dorsal streak from J to anal 



