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to inner margin at \ ; a similar partially interrupted streak from 

 \ of costa to ^ of inner margin, more reddish-ochreous in disc ; a 

 dark fuscous dot in disc before middle, a second below and obliquely 

 beyond first, and a third directly beyond second ; a moderately 

 broad irregular-edged ochreous-brown fascia from costa beyond 

 middle to inner margin before anal angle, and a broad triangular 

 ochreous-brown patch on apical fourth of costa, extending to anal 

 angle, and almost confluent with the transverse fascia and with 

 hindmargin, both marked with short dark streaks on veins ; a 

 small round dark fuscous spot in middle of fascia ; a hind marginal 

 row of elongate cloudy ochreous-fuscous spots ; cilia grey-whitish, 

 with a broad cloudy ochreous-grey median line. Hindwings 

 fuscous ; cilia whitish-ochreous, with an indistinct fuscous line. 



A distinct species, easily known by the grey- whitish ground- 

 colour, and ochreous-brown anterior lines and posterior fasciae. 



Sydney, in November ; one fine specimen on the trunk of 

 Eucalypttis sp. 



146. Phloe. melanodelta, n. sp. 



Minor, alis ant. ochreo-fuscis, maculis costae tribus saturatioribus, 

 triangulo dorsi antico magno maculaque disci parva nigrescentibus ; 

 post, griseis, basim versus dilutioribus. 



(f . 13-17 mm. Head pale whitish-ochreous, on crown mixed 

 with dark fuscous. Palpi pale whitish-ochreous, mixed with dark 

 fuscous, basal half and a subapical ring of second joint, and 

 terminal joint except base and apex dark fuscous. Antennae 

 greyish-ochreous or fuscous, ciliations f . Thorax whitish- ochreous, 

 mixed anteriorly with dark fuscous and reddish-ochreous. Abdo- 

 men ochreous-whitish. Anterior and middle le^s dark fuscous, 

 central ring of tibiae and apex of all joints ochreous-whitish; 

 posterior legs grey-whitish. Fore wings moderate, costa moderately 

 arched, apex rounded, hindmargin obliquely rounded • fuscous, 

 irrorated with ochreous-whitish and dark fuscous ; base indistinctly 

 spotted with blackish-fuscous; a small suffused blackish-fuscous 

 spot on costa at £, and a second beyond middle ; a dark fuscous 

 irregularly triangular sharply defined blotch on inner margin before 

 middle, more blackish towards apex, reaching more than half 



