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and before middle ; a faint transverse slender fuscous cloud a 

 little before apex ; hind-marginal line dark fuscous : cilia whitish- 

 <>< -lii-nous, tips and a cloudy parting-line fuscous. Hind-wings 

 whitish, extreme apex infuscated ; cilia whitish, smoky at apex. 



One female taken at Sydney on a fence in December. 



ANERASTIA, III. 



Ancr. mirabiUlla, Vol. III., p. 213. 



Since publishing my description, I have obtained two females 

 at light at Parramatta in October. This sex differs from the 

 male in having the white dorsal blotch of the fore-wings much 

 suffused with black, and the hind- wings blackish- grey, with 

 ochroous cilia, without any continuation of the dorsal blotch of 

 fore-wings over their surface ; in all other respects the sexes are 

 similar in colouring. 



Ancr. virgmclla, n. sp. 



8"-ll.y. c? ? Head carmine-pink, thinly mixed with whitish- 

 ochreous. Palpi more than two and a half times as long as head, 

 horizontally porrected, carmine-pink, mixed with whitish above 

 and internally. Antennae ochreous-whitish, basal joint suffused 

 with carmine anteriorly, in male rather strongly sinuate above 

 base. Thorax carmine-pink, mixed with whitish posteriorly. 

 Abdomen elongate, whitish-ochreous. Legs whitish-ochreous. 

 Fore-wings elongate, moderately narrow, costa slightly arched, 

 apex rounded, hind-margin very oblique ; carmine-pink, towards 

 costa and inner-margin tinged with ochreous ; the veins more or 

 less distinctly white, the median vein most conspicuous ; cilia 

 carmine-pink. Hind-wings whitish, hind-marginal line pale 

 fuscous-grey ; cilia whitish, with cloudy grey parting-line. 



Appears to be nearly allied to the Indian A. sceletella, Z., which 

 however has suberect palpi. Three specimens (one male, two 

 i'i -males) sent from Duaringa, Queensland, by Mr. G.Barnard. 



