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black and white lines ; a fine black line along inner margin from 

 middle to anal angle ; cilia ashy-grey-white, mixed with black. 

 Hindwings iridescent-grey ; cilia iridescent white, with a dark 

 fuscous basal line. 



One specimen on Eucalyptus sp. (" Stringy bark"), the bark of 

 which is similar in colour to the insect. April 3, 1893, at 

 Blackwood, S.A, ; also one specimen, Eucla, W.A., in May, 1892. 

 It is an exceedingly neat- looking insect. 



CRAMBID^. 

 Hednota crypsichroa, n. sjx 



Male and female, 24-25 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax 

 whitish-ochreous, fuscous-tinged, palpi nearly three times as long 

 as head, fuscous-tinged beneath. Abdomen ochreous, sometimes 

 fuscous-tinged. Thorax with a suflxised blackish mark on each 

 side, legs whitish, fuscous-tinged. Forewings, moderately dilated, 

 hindmargin slightly rounded oblique ; varying from ochreous- 

 white to fuscous ; a suffused blackish streak along fold almost 

 from base to anal angle, sometimes absent or interrupted 

 posteriorly ; a transverse elongate discal spot, outlined with 

 blackish, beyond middle, generally suiFiisedly margined on either 

 side with fuscous patches ; a row of semi-confluent blackish 

 spots from just above anal angle to near apex, ending in a 

 sufl'used fuscous triangular patch on costa, which contains a short 

 streak of white ; an indistinct row of elongate spots on veins 

 along hindmargin ; cilia whitish, with three lines of dark -fuscous 

 and a narrow basal line eds^ed with dull-leaden. Hindwinss 

 greyish ; cilia pale-greyish, with a darker line near base. 



Blackwood, Parkside, and Belair, usually at light, in March 

 and April. An obscure though distinct species. 



PHYCITID^. 



LaSIOSTICHA MICROCOSMA, 72. .s;;). 



Male, 13 mm. Head, palj:)!, antenna?, thorax, abdomen, and 

 legs fuscous, irrorated with whitish, terminal joint of paljDi black, 

 anterior tarsi suffusedly irrorated with white, anal tuft ochreous- 

 yellow. Forewings triangular, costa gently arched, hindmargin 

 hardly rounded oblique ; dark fuscous-reddish ; a black streak at 

 base, suffused on inner margin ; a thick black line slightly 

 curved from one-third to middle of inner margin, edged anteriorly 

 with a line of metallic-leaden scales, between basal line and this 

 there is a large patch of leaden-metallic scales, posteriorly edged 

 by a line of ground-colour, broadly dilated below middle ; an 

 angulated black line from four-fifths costa to three-fourths inner 

 margin, edged posteriorly by a line of leaden-metallic scales and 



