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Broken liill. New South Wales. One specimen : in 
October. 
SPHINGIDiE. 
Mopliocnena brachycera, how. 
Coe//iofrirI/e brar/i //rrra, Low., T.R.S.S.A., page 50, 1897. 
Tlopliornend uichniol euca , Roths. (1902). 
I have taken this species at Broken Hill, New South 
Wales, and have seen specimens from Roeburne, Western 
Australia, and Alice Springs, (Central) South Australia. 
NOTODONTID^. 
Cerura (?) melanoglypta, n. sp. 
Female, 40 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax cinerous-grey. 
Antennae fuscous. Abdomen silver-grey- whitish. Forewings 
elongate, moderate, ternien slightly waved, rounded, oblique ; 
cinerous-grey, minutely irrorated with black scales ; a well- 
marked, narrow, waved, black line starting on costa at one- 
sixth, thence becoming sub-costal for a short distance, thence 
curved and becoming thrice sinuate, and terminating on dor- 
sum at about one-third : a second, nearly straight waved 
black line from costa at three-fourths to dorsum about anal 
angle, gently curved inwards below, and with a short outward 
angulation immediately above dorsum ; a moderate, well- 
defined, somewhat reniform discal spot above middle : midway 
betw^een the two lines : cilia cinerous-grey, faintly barred with 
fuscous at extremities of veins. Hindwings with termen gently 
waved : white ; a broad black band along termen, mixed with 
cbscure whitish spots along edge of termen, better defined 
beneath : cilia whitish. 
Mount Pleasant, South Australia. One specimen : in 
October. 
GEOMETRID^E. 
BOARMIAN^. 
Amelora anthracica, n. sp. 
Male, 30 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax black, face 
rounded, prominent. Antennae ochreous, pectinations 5. 
Abdomen grey-whitish. Legs grey-whitish, anterior and 
middle tarsi infuscated. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa 
nearly straight, termen gently bowed, oblique : black, with 
blacker markings ; markings thick, well defined ; a basal 
fascia : a dentate fascia from one-fourth costa to one-fourth 
dorsum : a more strongly dentate fascia from costa at five- 
sixths to dorsum at five-sixths, more pronounced and some- 
what angulated in middle : a large linear discal spot : cilia 
