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spots on extremities of veins, lower ones largest and sharpest : 

 cilia silvery-metallic-grey, with a whitish line at base and in 

 middle, and intersected by slender white marks at the veins. 

 Hind wings pale fuscous-grey ; cilia white, with a fuscous-grey 

 parting line near base. 



Near Melbourne; not scarce. 



bifractell^Wkr. Cat. 174 (Crambus). c 



8" 9 1". Head ochreous-brown. Labial palpi long, ochreous- 

 brown or dark brown, brassy-metallic on sides. Antennae in <$ 

 stout, subdentate, above white with dark fuscous rings, beneath 

 dark fuscous ; in ? slender, white with dark fuscous rings. Tho- 

 rax ochreous-brown, at base silvery-ochreous-grey. Abdomen 

 pale greyish-ochreous, somewhat silvery at base. Legs pale 

 greyish-ochreous, anterior pair and posterior tarsi partially suf- 

 fused with greyish-fuscous, Forewings subtriangular, rather 

 broad, dilated ; deep clear ochreous, darkest along costa ; a sil- 

 very-white black-margined costal streak from base, at first very 

 narrow, much broader posteriorly, deflected from costa about 

 middle, and ending at three-fifths a little below costa ; a broad 

 straight silvery-white black-margined streak from base to three- 

 fifrhs of disc, its apex abruptly blunt-pointed, perpendicularly 

 beneath apex of costal streak ; an indistinct silvery-white partially 

 black-margined streak of variable width along inner margin from 

 base, its apex in a straight line with those of costal and median 

 streaks : a subtriangular silvery-white black-margined subcostal 

 spot between costal^ streak and hind-margin, its base obliquely 

 concave, with the upper angle sometimes reaching costa, its 

 apex almost reaching the subterminal line ; an oblong silvery- 

 white black-margined streak between apex of median streak and 

 hind margin, reaching hind margin, bisected longitudinally by a 

 blackish line, and interrupted by the sub-terminal line ; the space 

 between this streak and anal angle is whitish-ochreous or whitish 

 (in ? silvery-white), irrorated with blackish scales ; the space 

 between it and subcostal spot is whitish-ochreous, irrorated with 

 blackish scales and bisected longitudinally by a blacish Hue ; a 

 sinuate bluish-silvery metallic line proceeding from inner margin 



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