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blackish scales; markings black, obscure; a moderate line, twice 

 dentate, from costa at \ to inner margin at ^-; a narrow median 

 shade, strongly curved outwards above middle, from costa in 

 middle to middle of inner margin; second line shaped as median 

 shade, somewhat interrupted on and above curve, from costa at 

 about | to inner margin at § and gently curved inwards aboye 

 inner margin; subterminal dot-like, obscure; a fine waved hind- 

 marginal line, sometimes interrupted on veins : cilia blackish- 

 fuscous. Hindwings with hindmargin sinuate above and below 

 middle, causing anal angle to become somewhat prominent ; 

 whitish, somewhat fuscous-tinged around hindmargin and apex; 

 a blackish discal dot; a fine blackish hindmarginal line; second 

 line blackish, obscurely indicated by a row of fuscous dots, more 

 pronounced on underside; cilia whitish. 



Broken Hill, N.S.W.; seven specimens during April and May. 

 PYRALIDINA. 

 Sedenia xeroscopa, n.sp. 



gQ. 19-22 mm. Head, thorax, palpi and antennae light 

 ochreous-fuscous, posterior half of thorax and abdomen grey- 

 whitish, palpi beneath whitish. Legs ochreous-fuscous, posterior 

 pair greyish. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa somewhat 

 sinuate from base to middle, hindmargin obliquely rounded 

 beneath; light ochreous-fuscous, darkest along costa and hind- 

 margin; an obscure, moderately straight dark fuscous line, from 

 | of costa, gently curved to beneath cell, thence proceeding to 

 inner margin at §, more obscure on lower half; a dull whitish 

 spot on costa, preceding line; an obscure fuscous discal spot at 

 end of cell : cilia greyish-ochreous, with fuscous median, terminal, 

 and basal lines. Hindwings greyish; a fuscous discal spot: a 

 gently curved fuscous line from costa at f , towards inner margin 

 in middle but not reaching it; cilia greyish, fuscous- tinged at 

 base. Markings of wings strongly produced on underside. 



Broken Hill, N.S.W.; four specimens, in September. 



