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margin ; a strong blackish hind-marginal line, interrupted by- 

 whitish dots on veins; cilia fuscous-reddish, sharply barred with 

 blackish-grey. Hind wings with veins 4 and 5 stalked, 7 anasto- 

 mosing strongly with 8 ; l'uscous-grey ; cilia grey, with a darker 

 grey line near base. 



Helidon, Queensland ; one specimen in September. 



Stericta hdbitalis, Gn. 



Also from Albany, Geraldton, and Carnarvon, West 

 Australia ; in October, November, and April. 



Stericta thyridalis, Walk. 

 Larva 16-legged, cylindrical, posterior extremity tapering; some- 

 what wrinkled, with a few scattered hairs ; greyish-ochreous, 

 slightly pinkish-tinged ; spots very small, black ; lines blackish- 

 grey, dorsal very fine, subdorsal moderately broad, lateral slender ; 

 head blackish-fuscous, suffusedly reticulated with ochreous. Feeds 

 gregariously in tubes of silk and refuse on a shrubby plant 

 (perhaps a Leucopogon, but not properly identified) belonging to 

 the Epacridacea •■, in September and October. 



Also from Albany, West Australia : bred in November 

 and December. 



Stericta recurvalis, Walk. 



Salma recurvalis, Walk., Cr., 107; Exacosmia rubigi- 

 nosa, ib., SuppL, 609 ; Crambus melanospilellus, 

 ib., SuppL, 1759. 

 $ 2 , 28 — 32 mm. Head and palpi in male wholly blackish- 

 fuscous, in female whitish-ochreous mixed with dark fuscous. 

 Antennae fuscous, ciliations in male 2, basal process large, reflexed. 

 Thorax crested posteriorly, whitish-ochreous, in male suffused 

 with blackish-fuscous anteriorly, in female greenish-tinged and 

 mixed with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, irrorated 

 with fuscous. Legs dark fuscous, suffusedly ringed with whitish- 

 ochreous. Fore wings elongate-triangular, costa slightly arched, 

 apex obtuse, hind margin rather obliquely rounded ; veins 4 and 5 

 approximated at base ; whitish-ochreous, in female irregularly 

 mixed with light olive-greenish and fuscous-reddish, and unevenly 

 irrorated with blackish-fuscous, in male more or less wholly 

 suffused with fuscous and irrorated with blackish-fuscous, a space 

 on costa between first and second lines and a small spot on middle 

 of hind margin generally remaining pale ; a tuft of raised scales in 



