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cilia white, with a deep metallic blackish -grey line almost along 

 base, and cut by three very broad metallic violet-grey bands, one 

 immediately subapical, one just above and one just below 

 middle. Hindwings in <$ whitish, in ? dark fuscous-grey ; cilia 

 white, with fuscous-grey parting-line near base. 

 Two specimens (J, ? ) near Sydney, in December. 



Er. dilalella n. sp. 



Q" 7". Head dark ochreous-fuscous mixed with whitish. 

 Labial palpi nearly twice as long as head, long-haired beneath, 

 blackish-fuscous, with a suffused oval deep yellow spot on side 

 towards base. Antennae slender, dark fuscous. Thorax blackish- 

 fuscous, densely irrorated with whitish. Abdomen blackish- 

 fuscous, posterior margins of segments and anal-tuft clear white. 

 Anterior and middle legs ochreous-fuscous, posterior legs 

 ochreous-whitish. Forewings short, broad, subtriangular, very 

 strongly dilated posteriorly, hindmargin oblique, tolerably 

 straight ; blackish-fuscous, very densely irrorated with white 

 scales, towards inner margin often coalescing in $ into irregular 

 white patches ; first line slender, sometimes partially double, 

 irregular, blackish, suffusedly bordered with whitish, from two- 

 fifths of costa to two-fifths of inner margin, angulated outwards 

 below costa ; second line slender, blackish, partially double, 

 rising from a white spot on costa at three-fourths, proceeding very 

 obliquely outwards, strongly curved round close to hind margin, 

 and continued very near and parallel to hind margin to anal 

 angle ; a short rather oblique white streak from cosfca before 

 apex ; on lower two-thirds of hind margin a row of 8 quadrate 

 black spots, very near together, separated by ochreous-yellow 

 elongate marks ; cilia white, with a broad bright golden-metallic 

 line along base, and a broad dark metallic grey line along tips. 

 Hind wings in whitish, with irregular indistinct grey-fuscous 

 shades along hind margin, in ? blackish-grey ; cilia white, tips 

 and a parting-line near base strongly dark-grey. 



Very closely allied to praematurella, differing principally by the 

 larger size, longer palpi, and the ochreous-yellow marks between 

 the hind marginal spots. Near Parramatta, locally common, in 

 September. 



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