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grey irrorated with blackish : basal half of dorsum with pro- 

 jecting blackish scales : cilia grey sprinkled with black. Hind- 

 wings grey ; a small patch of black scales towards base of dor- 

 sum : cilia grey, on middle of costa with an expansible sror>p 

 of long black scales, on basal half of dorsum mixed wtih black- 

 ish scales at base. 



Sydney, New South Wales, in March ; one specimen. 



Xeptinila ejidorapria, n. sp. 



Male, female, 4-5 mm. Head yellow-ochreous or whitish- 

 ochreous. Antennae grey, eyecap whitish. Thorax dark grey 

 mixed with whitish. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings lanceo- 

 late ; fuscous-whitish irrorated with dark grey ; undersurface 

 in male clothed with dark purplish-fuscous modified scales ex- 

 cept towards apex : cilia grey-whitish sprinkled with blackish. 

 Hind wings grey, in male broader and clothed with dark 

 purplish-fuscous modified scales except towards apex : cilia 

 grey, in male basally mixed with dark grey scales on anterior 

 half of costa, and with an expansible tuft of long dark fuscous 

 scales from base of costa above. 



Albany and York, West Australia, in November and De- 

 cember ; eleven specimens. The species was common on a 

 fence at Albany, beneath a row of EuraJj/pf//.^, which was al- 

 most certainly the food-plant. 



?\eptind(i riidlritis, n. sp. 



Female, 5 mm. Plead ochreous-yellowish. Antennae 

 whitish-ochreous, eyecaps ochreous- whitish. Thorax dark 

 bronzy-fuscous. Abdomen bronzy-grey. Forewings lanceolate; 

 shining light bronze, irrorated with dark fuscous : cilia whit- 

 ish-fuscous, sprinkled with dark fuscous. Hindwings pale grey ; 

 cilia whitish-fuscous. 



Albany, West Australia, in December : one specimen. 



Nepticiihf plnjVroifliitKi, n. sp. 



Female, 4 mm. Head ochreous-yellowish. Antennge 

 whitish-grey, eyecap whitish. Thorax and abdomen purplish- 

 fuscous. Forewings lanceolate ; grey, mixed with grey-whitish 

 and blackish-grey, anteriorly suffused with dark purplish- 

 grey : cilia whitish-grey sprinkled with blackish-grey. Hind- 

 wings dark grey, on basal half more thinly scaled and black- 

 ish : cilia grey. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; three specimens bred in Feb- 

 ruary. Larva mines a long broad sinuate gallery in leaves of 

 PJn/Jh(fifJnfS FerdiiKUidi f Eff p^'orh/(ir('(r ) : cocoon white. I 

 believe the food-plant is not native near Sydney, but occurs 

 naturally further north in New South Wales and Queens- 

 land : the tree from which T bred these specimens grew in the 

 Botanic Gardens. 



