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margin : cilia dark grey, with many bluish-whitish points. Hind- 

 wings sab-hyaline, whitish-grey, narrowly darker at apex, and 

 very narrowly along hindmargin : cilia whitish-grey, with dark 

 grey parting-line near base. 



Tolerably common near Sydney, at Bowenfels, and Newcastle, 

 from October to January ; comes freely to light. 



Neph. opimella, n. sp. 



8". Head, palpi, and thorax blackish-fuscous, finely and thinly 

 irrorated with whitish ; palpi obliquely ascending, reaching con- 

 siderably above head. Antennee dark fuscous, in <$ very finely and 

 shortly ciliated, with an angular tuft of black scales in sinuation. 

 Abdomen dark fuscous, with clear ochreous-yellow rings on seg- 

 mental margins. Legs blackish, irrorated with whitish, tarsi 

 with very slender whitish rings at apex of joints, posterior legs 

 ochreous-whitish above Forewings rather short, dilated, costa 

 slightly arched, hindmargin somewhat oblique, rounded ; blackish, 

 densely strewn with whitish scales, the absence of which produces 

 clear black markings j first line indistinct, double, slender, oblique, 

 at one- third of wing, bordered posteriorly by a broad oblique 

 transverse band, clearly defined towards base, posteriorly more 

 suffused ; second line stronger, "distinct, double, from a little be- 

 fore apex to a little before anal angle, shortly angulated outwards 

 below costa, and again inwards above inner margin, between the 

 two angulations convex posteriorly ; half way between first and 

 second lines an oval black dot above middle of disc : cilia blackish- 

 grey, extreme tips and a slender parting-line bluish-white. Hind- 

 wings deep yellow, costa and hindmargin rather broadly bordered 

 with smoky-fuscous, towards anal angle becoming suffused into 

 ground colour; cilia smoky-grey, with a blackish parting-line 

 near base. 



Several specimens near Parramatta, from June to August. 



PEMPELIA Hb. 



Antennae filiform, in $ sinuate above basal joint, with a tuft 

 of scales in the sinuation. Forehead with a cone of scales. 

 Labial palpi ascending or recurved, second joint rather long, 

 terminal joint very short. Maxillary palpi of ending in a long 



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