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wings whitish-ochreous-grey, towards apex suffused with dark 

 fuscous ; cilia grey-whitish, with a broad cloudy fuscous parting- 

 line. 



Three females taken on fences near Sydney in December 

 and January. 



Aph. pachytera, n. sp. 



11" -12". . Head whitish-grey irrorated with blackish, with 

 short dense overhanging frontal tuft. Labial palpi short, 

 appressed, almost concealed in frontal scales, whitish-grey mixed 

 with darker. Antennae filiform, whitish-grey, slenderly anuulatod 

 with black. Thorax whitish-grey, coarsely irrorated with darker, 

 forming confused blackish spots on shoulders and posteriorly. 

 Abdomen greyish-ochreous, segments basally suffused with darker. 

 Legs whitish, very finely and densely irrorated with blackish, 

 except on posterior pair above ; middle and anterior tibuc with 

 an oblique blackish band before apex, tarsi nearly black with 

 slender white rings at apex of joints, Fore-wings elongate, 

 moderately broad, discoidal cell not abnormally large, costa 

 regularly arched, apex rounded, hind-margin flatly rounded off 

 beneath ; whitish-grey, densely but irregularly irrorated with 

 dark grey and blackish scales ; first line strong, cloudy, blackish, 

 from of costa to two-fifths of inner-margin, uniformly convex 

 outwardly, nearly preceded by an almost obsolete slender blackish 

 parallel line ; second line double, cloudy, blackish, enclosing a 

 whitish central space, inner line broadest and darkest, from before 

 four-fifths of costa to before anal angle, central half dentate and 

 strongly bowed outwards ; a cloudy dark grey costal blotch before 

 apex ; two black dots longitudinally placed on disc, one before, 

 one beyond middle, nearer to costa than to inner-margin ; hind- 

 marginal line black, interrupted : cilia dark grey, tips and an 

 obsolete line near base whitish. Hind-wings grey-fuscous, tinged 

 with ochreous ; hind-marginal line blackish : cilia fuscous-grey, 

 with sharp blackish-fuscous parting -line. 



