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free, vein 6 sometimea out of 9 Hindwings with patch of 

 modified yellow scales ; 6 and 7 stalked. 



Tyipe, delotis. Low. 



Somewhat allied to Xa/itJiorhce, Hb., on the one hand, but 

 with some reversionary tendency to' Melitidias, Meyr. 



Hypycnopa delotis, n. sp. 



Male and female, 23-25 mm. Head, antennae, thorax, legs 

 and abdomen ashy-grey-whitish. Antennal pectinations at 

 greatest length 6, abdomen banded with blackish, tibiae and 

 tarsi obscurely ringed with whitish. Forewings elongate, 

 triangular, termen entire, oblique ; ashy-grey-whitish, finely 

 strigulated throughout with transverse blackish lines ; mark- 

 ings black ; a fine curved trans\ erse line near ; edges of 

 median band limited by fine lines ; anterior from one-third 

 costa to one-third innermargin, gently curved, anteriorly 

 edged by a dull whitish band, containing a fine line of fuscous 

 throughout ; posterior edge from two-thirds costa to two-thirds 

 innermargin, waved throughout, with a moderate bidentate 

 projection in middle, sinuate above and below this, and with 

 a slight indentation on fold ; a transverse line, thicker on 

 lower half, from costa in middle of median band, thence in- 

 wardly oblique to innermargin and there coalescing with 

 anterior edge of band, forming ai thick streak, followed by a 

 parallel line just beyond; a short oblique sitreak from just 

 beneath apex and reaching a fine waved double subterminal 

 line ; a row of elongate black streaks along termen ; cilia 

 fuscous with a dark median line. Hindwings with termen 

 very faintly waved ; whitish fuscous, with faintly w^aved trans- 

 \ erse fuscous lines ; edges of median band only discernible on 

 •innermargin ; a postmedian transverse fuscous line, followed 

 by a parallel, but more waved fuscous line; an elongate patch 

 of yellow scales below costa in middle, absent in female ; cilia 

 greyish-fuscous. 



Recalls Phrissogoiius Misigillatus, Walk., especially the 

 female. 



Broken Hill, New South Wales, male; Birchip, Victoria, 

 female ; both taken in April. The latter specimen taken by 

 Mr. D. Goudie. 



Mesoptila anthracias. Low. 



(P. L. S., N.S.W., 1897, p. 12.) 



I submitted a specimen of this insect to Sir Geo. Hampson, 

 who informs me that it is not referable to the Geometrina, but 

 to th'e Noctuina in the genus Raparna, so that the remarks in 

 reference thereto may be treated as non-existent. It will 

 now stand as : — 



