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Seclion II. — Males ivithoiit secondary sexital characters in Jore wings 

 (Chloroclystis). 



14. Chloroclystis pilata. 



Eupithecia filata, Gn. Lep. x., p. 353. 



Phibalapteryx rubroferrata, Wlk. Brit. Mus. Cat., xxv., p. 

 1341. 



Pasiphila filata, Meyr. P.L.S. N.S.W., 1890, p. 795. 



N.S.W., Sydney, Mt. Kosciusko; V., Melboui'ne, Gisborne ; 

 T., Deloraine, Hobart. 



15. Chloroclystis metallospora, n. sp. 

 [/xeraXXoo-TTopos, sprinkled with metal]. 



<? ?, 13-20 mm. Head and antennae grey-whitish. Palpi 

 »rey-whitish mixed with blacki.sh. Thorax and abdomen whitish 

 mixed with grey and dark fuscous, with scattered scales showing 

 pale brassy reflections. Legs whitish, anterior pair fuscous ; 

 tarsi annulated with whitish ; posterior tibiae with outer spurs 

 about half as long as inner spurs. Fore wings elongate-triangu- 

 lar ; grey-whitish irrorated with fuscous ; many scales showing 

 a brassy reflection in oblique light ; markings blackish ; a trans- 

 verse line near base ; two well-marked lines from costa before 

 middle arising near together, first waved, second sigmoid, 

 diverging towards inner margin at ^ and f ; a posterior line 

 from costa at | to before anal angle, first straight, sharply bent 

 in middle of disc and thence inwardly curved ; an obscure 

 dentate whitish subterminal line ; an interrupted black line along 

 hind margin ; cilia grey, apices and a series of dots opposite 

 veins whitish. Hind wings as fore wings, but basal and median 

 lines absent ; second line with a prominent median acute projec- 

 tion. 



Variety. — Median band of fore wing and hind wing between 

 iirst and posterior lines wholly dark fuscous except towards costa, 

 the fuscous sufl'usion extending in hind wing along inner margin 

 nearly to base. 



Q., Brisbane ; taken rather commonly on fences in July, 

 August and September. 



