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fuscous. Hind wings with hindmargin rounded, slightly waved, 

 whitish, becoming white towards inner margin and base; a broad 

 suffused blackish hindmarginal band, a blackish hindmarginal 

 line ; cilia as in fore wings. 



One specimen, bred in February from Eucalyptus rostrata; 

 forms a rough silky cocoon beneath the bark ; Blackwood, S.A. 



SELIDOSEMID.E. 



DiASTICTIS GONIOTA, il. Sp. 



Female, 28 mm. Head, palpi, antenna?, and thorax ochreous- 

 fuscous, antenna^ spotted with black. Abdomen and legs greyish, 

 minutely irrorated with dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, 

 costa strongly arched near base ; hindmargin strongly angulated 

 in middle, sinuate above and less below this angulation ; light 

 ochreous-fuscous ; a black dot in disc about middle ; a dark- 

 fuscous line from costa at live-sixths to four-fifths inner margin, 

 slightly angulated near costa, and margined rather broadly on 

 each side with darker ground-colour ; a hindmarginal row of in- 

 distinct black dots ; cilia ochreous-fuscous, with a whitish basal 

 line. Hindwings with hindmargin irregularly waved, whitish- 

 grey, suffusedly irrorated w^ith fuscous, except towards base ; a 

 minute black dot in middle of wing ; an indistinct waved line 

 from costa near apex to about two-thirds inner margin ; cilia as 

 in forewings, but slightly paler. 



One specimen, Hallett's Cove, S.A., in November ; larva 

 feeding on Mueldenheckia adpressa. 



DiASTICTIS ODONTIAS, 71. Sp. 



Male, 36 mm. Head, palpi, and legs ochreous ; posterior 

 femora whitish; antenna? white-spotted with fuscous ; pectinations 

 six, fuscous-tinged, apical-fifth simple ; thorax ochreous-grey. 

 Abdomen whitish-ochreous, with a double series of dorsal dots 

 towards base. Forewings triangular ; costa straight ; hindmar- 

 gin rounded, oblique, -pale dove-colour ; with numerous transverse 

 ferruginous strigulae ; costal edge yellowish-ochreous throughout, 

 strigulated with blackish ; a narrow ferruginous line from one- 

 third costa to about one-third inner margin, strongly curved out- 

 wards near costa ; a transverse black discal dot ; a thick, straight, 

 ferruginous line from about two-thirds costa to two-thirds inner 

 margin, edged beyond throughout by a waved ferruginous line, 

 included space jDaler than rest of ground-colour ; a thick, waved, 

 interrupted ferruginous line from five-sixths costa to anal angle, 

 lower-half almost lost in general ground-colour ; a waved hind- 

 marginal line ; cilia grey-whitish. Hindwings with hindmargin 

 very strongly dentate ; colour, discal dot, and mai'kings as in 

 forewings, but apex and part of hindmargin marked with 



