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wings with, liind-margin twice sliglitly cmarginate or indented 

 below apex ; hind- wings with basal pecten. 



A small, recently defined, genus, distinguished especially by 

 the two indentations below apex of fore-wings. The only other 

 species known besides the Australian are from South America. 



To this genus, and not to JEromene should be referred the species 

 described in Yol. III., p. 198-199, as praematurella and dilatella, 

 which I now, from the examination of further specimens, consider 

 to be merely the spring and summer broods of the same rather 

 variable insect, for which the na,m* praemattyetta must be retained. 

 It is common, but local, in marshy places near Sydney, from 

 October to February. It is very similar to the South American 

 species, but differs by the possession of usually eight hind-marginal 

 spots, instead of three. 



PHYCIDJE. 

 NEPHOPTERYX, Z., 



n. sp. 



9". ? . Head silvery-grey, mixed with dark fuscous. Palpi 

 arched, ascending, attenuated, hardly reaching forehead, whitish- 

 grey, densely mixed with blackish-fuscous. Antennae grey. 

 Thorax silvery-grey, densely mixed with blackish -fuscous. 

 Abdomen silvery-grey, suffused with dark fuscous, except on 

 apical rings of segments. Legs dark slaty-fuscous, irrorated 

 with whitish; tarsi dark fuscous with whitish rings at apex of 

 joints ; posterior tibiae with an oblique rather broad blackish 

 ring a little before apex. Fore-wings elongate, narrowed at base, 

 costa bent in middle, thence parallel to inner margin, apex 

 rounded, hind-margin obliquely rounded ; pale grey, irregularly 

 irrorated with darker grey and dark fuscous scales, the darker 

 scales predominating along costa and hind-margin, and more 

 narrowly along inner-margin ; along fold and beneath costa the 

 ground-colour is mixed with whitish ; first line from of costa 



