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blackish very oblique streak from apex ; at one-third a black dot 

 above middle, and a second, much smaller and often obsolete, 

 almost perpendicularly beneath it or slightly nearer base, on fold ; 

 immediately before two-thirds a third larger sub-elongate black 

 dot in middle of disc ; an indistinct, often obsolete, transverse row 

 of five or six black dots from extremity of apical streak to anal 

 angle ; a row of large irregular (often indistinct) black dots on 

 hind-margin ; cilia grey, with whitish points, a whitish basal line 

 and two dark-grey parting-lines. Hind wings pale grey, hind 

 marginal line dark-grey ; cilia pale-grey or whitish, with dark- 

 grey parting-line near base. 



Rather variable in intensity of colouring. Very common, 

 from Sydney to Bowenfels, and at Melbourne ; from September 

 to January, in dry grassy places. 



Euc. ensiferella, n. sp. 



12". Head brownish-ochreous, face dark fuscous. Palpi twice 

 as long as head, densely scaled, externally dark-fuscous, internally 

 ochreous-whitish. Antennae fuscous. Thorax ochreous, on shoul- 

 ders brownish. Abdomen greyish-ochreous. Legs dark-fuscous. 

 Fore wings elongate, narrow, costa nearly straight, lightly arched 

 before apex, hind margin oblique, hardly rounded ; light pinkish 

 brown-ochreous ; a rather broad ochreous- white costal streak from 

 base to a little before apex, remainder of costa blackish, the blackish 

 scales also extending basally half-way along both margins of 

 costal streak ; a straight slender ochreous- white median streak 

 from base to hind margin a little below apex, near base confluent 

 with costal streak, beneath margined with blackish scales, much 

 most strongly between middle and two-thirds ; between costal and 

 median streaks an indistinct blackish transverse mark at two- 

 thirds, and behind it a longitudinal streak of blackish scales, end- 

 ing in a cloudy spot just below apex ; three branches of median 

 vein faintly, and sub-dorsal vein more strongly defined with 

 blackish scales ; a cloudy hind -marginal blackish line; cilia grey, 

 mixed with blackish-fuscous, Hind wings dark fuscous-grey, 

 darker towards hind margin ; cilia grey mixed with fuscous, with 

 a paler basal line. 



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