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$ . 9"- 10". Smaller and darker than male ; fore- wings much 

 or almost wholly suffused with dark grey-fuscous, through which 

 the markings are only faintly visible, excepting a distinct circular 

 ochreous spot at of inner margin, enclosing a white dot ; some- 

 times the ochreous colour is extended along or near inner-margin. 

 Hind- wings slightly darker than in male. 



Allied to striglferella and its associates ; it is variable in intensity 

 of colouring, but generally well characterised by the inner- 

 marginal small ocellus, which is black-centered in male, white- 

 centered in female ; the male is also distinguished by the partial 

 reddish-ochreous tinge of disc, and the female is the darkest in 

 the group, and also exceptional in being smaller than male. 



Not uncommon at light at Parramatta ; it appears to be double- 

 brooded, occurring from November to January, and again in 

 March. 



Pemp. digrammella, n. sp. 



9". <$ $ . Head ochreous-brown. Labial palpi considerably 

 longer than head, nearly perpendicularly erect, pale ochreous, on 

 sides dark fuscous. Antenna) dark fuscous, in male thickened, 

 finely ciliated, with a triangular tuft of blackish scales in sinuation, 

 in female simple. Thorax brownish-ochreous, on back greyish. 

 Abdomen in male ochreous, in female whitish-ochreous-grey, 

 base of segments suffused with dark grey. Legs in male 

 ochreous, in female ochreous-whitish, more or less densely 

 irrorated with dark fuscous. Fore-wings elongate, rather 

 narrow, costa gently arched, hind-margin obliquely rounded ; 

 pale whitish-ochreous, suffused (especially in male) with 

 brighter brownish-ochreous, coarsely irrorated along costa 

 and posteriorly on veins with blackish scales ; first line whitish, 

 oblique, slightly curved, from before of costa to two-fifths of 

 inner margin, internally rather broadly edged with fuscous, 

 externally with a black marginal dot above middle and another 

 on fold ; second line whitish or ochreous-whitish, strongest on 



