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gently arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin obliquely rounded; 

 ashy-grey, densely suffused with white, especially in disc and 

 towards hindmargin; a blackish streak along lower median vein, 

 but not nearly reaching base; an indistinct blackish crescentic 

 mark at end of cell; a dull suffused fuscous patch immediately 

 below, absent in some specimens; all veins more or less outlined 

 with fuscous : cilia greyish, mixed with fuscous, and with a 

 darker irregular basal line. Hindwings pale greyish; cilia pale 

 ^royish-ochreous. 



Broken Hill, N.S.W.; five specimens, in May and June. 



Macrobathra philopsamma, n.sp. 



£. 20, <J. 22 mm. Head dull ochreous; palpi ochreous, apex 

 of second and median third of terminal joint fuscous. Abdomen 

 ochreous. Antenna? and thorax fuscous, patagia fuscous. Legs 

 ochreous-white, strongly banded with fuscous. Forewings elon- 

 gate-lanceolate; dark bronzy-fuscous, with whitish-ochreous mark- 

 ings; a small spot at base, sometimes absent; three somewhat 

 cuneiform spots on costa, at ^, h, and about f, from each of which 

 proceeds an oblique irregularly suffused dentate line towards 

 inner margin, sometimes reaching it, but generall}'- lost in general 

 ground colour at f of length : cilia dark fuscous, tips greyish. 

 Hind wings ochreous-fuscous, somewhat darker towards apex; 

 cilia ochreous-fuscous, becoming darker round apex. 



Semaphore, South Australia; five specimens, in November. 



GELECHIADjE. 



Atasthalistis kuchkoa, n.sp. 



$. 15 mm. Head and thorax pale fleshy-ochreous. Abdomen 

 fuscous, anal tuft yellowish. (Antennae broken). Anterior legs 

 dark fuscous, posterior and middle pair ochreous-whitish. Palpi 

 fuscous. Forewings elongate, dilated posteriorly, costa slightly 

 arched at base, thence straight, apex round-pointed, hindmargin 

 nearly straight, sinuate in middle; pale fleshy-ochreous, with a 

 few scattered blackish striguhe; a well defined, somewhat elongate, 



