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or partially interrupted below middle and on fold, posteriorly 

 emitting two black-margined wedge-shaped teeth, one between 

 the two interruptions and one immediately above them ; an out- 

 wardly curved pale metallic-grey subterminal line a little before 

 hind margin, starting from a white spot on costa ; between sub- 

 terminal line and the transverse streak is a transverse curved row 

 of six or seven silvery- white, sub-ovate, more or less (sometimes 

 very strongly) elongate spots, the narrow interspaces strongly 

 lined with blackish scales ; between subterminal line and hind 

 margin, touching both, are four silvery-white spots, first sub-tri- 

 angular, subapical ; second quadrate, in middle ; third and 

 fourth quadrate, adjacent, above anal angle ; hind-marginal line 

 dark fuscous, with sub-triangular blackish spots on extremities of 

 veins : cilia silvery-white, tips and a parting-line fuscous-grey. 

 Hind wings whitish -grey, in $ slightly darker, hind-marginal line 

 dark fuscous ; cilia white, with a faint grey parting-line. 



Common in the Sydney district, and around. Melbourne, in 

 February and March. 



Or. Tioplitellus n. sp. 



10" 11". Head ochreous-brown, with a whitish line over each 

 eye. Labial palpi twice as long as head, ochreous-brown, mixed 

 with darker-fuscous, beneath whitish. Antennae dark fuscous, 

 in( strongly pectinated. Thorax deep ochreous-brown. Abdo- 

 men whitish, towards base tinged with greyish-fuscous. Legs 

 dark fuscous, posterior pair more whitish above. Forewings 

 moderately broad, hind margin very slightly sub-concave, almost 

 straight ; deep brownish-ochreous, partially suffused with darker 

 brown ; a straight narrow silvery-white sub-costal streak, pro- 

 ceeding from costa near base, and ending on costa again shortly 

 before apex, enclosing a narrow fuscous costal streak ; a silvery- 

 white, strongly blackish-margined, central streak from base, gradu- 

 ally dilating to beyond middle, where it becomes abruptly bifur- 

 cate, both branches short, reaching to three-fourths of disc; upper 

 branch slender, abruptly swollen towards apex beneath ; lower 

 branch short-pointed, with a tooth above ; about the apex of each 

 branch is an irregularly oval cloud of mixed black and bluish-white 

 scales ; from between these two clouds proceeds a silvery- white, 



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