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Legs dark fuscous irrorated with whitish, posterior tibise whitish 

 above. Forewings elongate, moderate, costa gently arched, apex 

 rounded, hindmargin rather obliquely rounded ; 2 from | ; ashy- 

 grey, thinly sprinkled with blackish ; a dark grey dot near base 

 in middle ; about five indistinct cloudy dark-grey dots in a longi- 

 tudinal series in disc from ^ to J, the last subcrescentic ; a small 

 cloudy subquadrate dark-grey s23ot beneath fourth dot, sometimes 

 connected indistinctly with third : cilia ashy-grey. Hind- wings 

 with veins 6 and 7 from a point or short-stalked ; fuscous, base 

 paler and whitish-tinged ; cilia fuscous, tips and a row of median 

 points whitish. 



York, West Australia ; four specimens bred in December. 

 Larva feeds on Hakea (the same species as C. hierastis), living 

 in a barricaded tunnel and carrying in the spines for food, in 

 October. 



7. Cryijt. ejngramma, n. sp. 



Female 34mm Head, antennae, and thorax dark fuscous. Palpi 

 whitish, irrorated with dark fuscous. Abdomen dark-grey, mixed 

 with orano-e-reddish towards base of seo'ments. Leo-s dark fus- 

 cous, apex of joints whitish, posterior tibi?e grey -whitish. Fore- 

 wings oblong, costa moderately arched on basal half, thence 

 straight, apex obtuse, hindmargin sinuate beneath apex, not 

 oblique, rounded beneath ; 2 from | ; dark ashy fuscous ; veins 

 more or less distinctly marked with fine black lines ; a narrow 

 blackish streak along basal third of inner margin ; a fine trans- 

 verse black line from \ of costa, terminated by median vein ; a 

 second similar line from costa before middle, reaching | across 

 wing : cilia dark ashy fuscous. Hindwings with veins 6 and 7 

 from a point ; fuscous, darker towards hindmargin ; cilia fuscous- 

 whitish, with a dark fuscous subbasal line. 



Mount Lofty, South Australia ; one specimen taken by Mr. E. 

 Guest. 



8. Cry2:)t. proleuca, n. sp. 

 Male 19 mm. Head and palpi ochreous- whitish, slightly 

 sprinkled with ferruginous. Antennae fuscous, mixed with whitish. 

 Thorax ochreous-whitish, irrorated with brown. Abdomen 

 whitish-ochreous, posterior margin of segments bright orange. 

 Legs ochreous-fuscous, middle and posterior tibiae whitish. Fore- 

 wings oblong, costa slightly arched, apex rounded, hind margin 

 oblique, slightly rounded ; 2 from f ; fuscous, towards inner and 

 hind margin sprinkled with whitish and dark fuscous ; a 

 moderate sharply-marked snow-white streak along costa from 

 near base to -f , attenuated anteriorly to a point, beneath bordered 

 by a broad ochreous-brown band from base to f ; an ill-defined 

 small roundish dark fuscous spot beneath middle of disc, sufiusedly 



