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SCOPARIADiE. 

 Eclipsiodes, Meyr. 

 Eclipsiodes drosera, n. s. 

 $ 2 , 18 — 20 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and 

 legs dark fuscous, slightly mixed with white ; forehead with a 

 short cone, sometimes obsolete; palpi rather long, terminal joint 

 concealed. Fore wings triangular, costa almost straight, apex 

 obtuse, hind margin rather obliquely rounded ; dark fuscous, with 

 some scattered white scales tending to form a cloudy patch on 

 costa before second line and another on anal angle ; lines sub- 

 dentate, black; first from one-third of costa to two-fifths of inner 

 margin, somewhat curved; second from three-fourths of costa to 

 three-fifths of inner margin, sinuate inwards below middle, 

 followed on costa and sometimes on inner margin by a small 

 cloiidy white spot; orbicular and claviform roundish, outlined 

 with blackish, obscure, touching first line ; reniform tolerably 

 8-shaped, outlined with blackish, almost touching second line 

 beneath ; a cloudy darker shade near beyond and parallel to second 

 line ; an irregular white marginal line, sometimes obsolete, mar- 

 gined obscurely with blackish ; cilia grey, with a dark grey line. 

 Hind wings dark fuscous ; two or three cloudy whitish spots before 

 middle, and a curved series of small white partially confluent 

 spots beyond middle, all sometimes obsolete ; cilia as in fore wings. 



Victoria ; several specimens (coll. Lucas). 



Eclipsiodes crypsixantha, Meyr. 

 Also from Duaringa, Queensland ; Blackheath (3500 

 feet) and Bathurst, New South Wales. 



Nyctakcha, Meyr. 

 Nyctarcha ophideres, Walk. 

 Also from Duaringa, Queensland. 



Nyctarcha paracentra, n. s. 



$ , 15 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs 

 blackish ; palpi white beneath towards base ; apex of tarsal joints 

 yellow-whitish. Fore wings suboblong, rather dilated posteriorly, 

 costa almost straight, apex obtuse, hind margin obliquely rounded; 

 dark fuscous, purplish-tinged ; a cloudy outwardly oblique whitish 

 spot on costa at two-thirds, reaching half across wing ; a short 



