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are sometimes entirely obsolete, rarely distinct ; first line very 

 faint, double, only appearing as two ochreous-brown spots, mixed 

 with blackish scales, on inner margin before middle, and two 

 obliquely above them on lower margin of median streak beyond 

 middle ; second line sometimes tolerably distinct, waved, sharply 

 angulated above median streak and sometimes also with a second 

 indistinct angulation towards inner margin, whitish, edged inter- 

 nally with darker ochreous-brown ; hindmarginal line dark 

 fuscous, containing three or four distinct black dots towards 

 middle ; cilia fuscous-grey, rather metallic. Hindwings fuscous- 

 grey ; cilia whitish-grey or whitish, with a fuscous-grey parting- 

 line near base. 



Allied to cuneiferellus ; differs by the narrower wings, smaller 

 size, darker colouring, hindmarginal dots, &c. Also very common, 

 round Sydney and Parramatta, and in the district of the Lower 

 Hunter River ; also received from Rockharnpton ; from January 

 to March. 



Cr. relatalis Wkr. Cat. 172. 



12" 13J". Head pale ochreous, mixed with whitish, with a 

 very narrow white line above each eye. Labial palpi more than 

 twice as long as head, pale ochreous, much mixed with fuscous 

 towards apex, beneath clear white at base ; maxillary palpi white 

 above, fuscous at base. Antennae whitish. Thorax ochreous, 

 posteriorly white, and with a broad quadrate ochreous-white spot 

 behind collar. Abdomen silky-white, anal-tuft whitish-ochreous. 

 Anterior and middle legs grey-fuscous, thinly whitish-scaled 

 above ; posterior legs whitish. Forewings elongate, moderately 

 broad, hindmargin subconcave below apex, thence strongly 

 rounded ; greyish-ochreous or greyish-brown tinged with ochreous, 

 especially towards base, towards inner margin rather abruptly 

 and broadly whitish-ochreous, and sometimes also more narrowly 

 along costa; a straight silvery-white, internally blackish-margined 

 subcostal streak from base to costa shortly before apex, with a 

 tendency to emit two or three faint branches towards costa pos- 

 teriorly ; a straight moderately broad silvery-white black-margined 

 central streak from base, parallel to subcostal streak, beyond 

 middle deflected downwards and continuing parallel to inner 



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