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irregular blackish spots, often indistinct ; cilia grey-whitish, with 

 three distinct darker-grey parting-lines. Hind wings in ^ pale 

 fuscous- grey, in ? rather darker, apex dark fuscous-grey ; hind- 

 marginal line suffused with dark fuscous; cilia whitish, with 

 dark- grey parting-line near base. 



Very closely allied to the European zinckenella Tr., from which 

 it differs by the narrower wings, costal white streak not reaching 

 apex, and rust-coloured, not yellow, transverse band ; from chry- 

 soporella by the rather smaller size, slaty-grey ground colour, and 

 unbroken transverse golden-metallic line. Very common and 

 generally distributed, occurring from Sydney to the summits of 

 the Blue Mountains, round Newcastle, at Melbourne and Ade- 

 laide, from September to January. 



Ei. chrysoporella n. sp. 



10 M 10^". Head in $ bright yellow-ochreous, with a whitish 

 spot above the eyes. Labial palpi nearly thrice as long as head, 

 dark brassy-fuscous; maxillary palpi (?). Antennaa fus- 

 cous with whitish rings, beneath whitish, in $ with a large tuft of 

 white silky hairs, clothed on one side with fuscous scales, in sinu- 

 ation. Thorax brownish-ochreous, in front blackish, with a clear 

 ochreous-yellow spot on anterior margin. Abdomen whitish- 

 ochreous, base of segments suffused with grey-fuscous. Legs 

 ochreous- whitish above, dark fuscous beneath. Fore wings elon- 

 gate, very narrow, scarcely dilated, costa straight until just before 

 apex, hindmargin oblique, slightly rounded; pale greyish-ochreous- 

 brown, irrorated with dark fuscous scales ; a straight white costal 

 streak, starting from a small tuft of ochreous-brown hairs almost 

 at base, to costa a little before apex, enclosing a very narrow dark 

 fuscous streak on costal edge, and margined beneath by a line of 

 dark fuscous scales, becoming a wedge-shaped mark at apex, and 

 beneath this again by a pale ochreous-yellow streak from near 

 base quite to apex; a rather curved oblique transverse pale 

 ochreous-yellow band from one-fourth of costal streak to one-third 

 of inner margin, margined internally by three separate circular 

 raised golden-metallic spots, before each of which is a blackish 

 spot ; an irregular suffused white spot towards inner margin be- 



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