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white ; in female shining white, sometimes with a blackish mark in 

 disc and more or less suffused with blackish-grey ; a hindmarginal 

 series of small black spots ; cilia white. 



Newcastle and Sydney, New South Wales ; several specimens, 

 from December to February. Larva residing in a barricaded 

 tunnel in stems of Pultenaea villosa, carrying in leaves for food. 



25. Cryj)t. delocentra, n. sp. 



Female 40mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi white, terminal 

 joint \ of second. Antenna3 black. Thorax white, anteriorly 

 ochreous-tinged. Abdomen blackish, sides and segmental mar- 

 gins white, basal segment white, second segment orange-red. 

 Legs black, ringed with white. Forewings oblong, posteriorly 

 slightly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin 

 rather obliquely rounded ; 2 from ^ ; shining snow-white ; a large 

 black dot in disc beyond J ; and two others transversely placed 

 in disc at -|, lower rather posterior ; a row of small black spots 

 along hindmargin and apical fourth of costa : cilia white. Hind- 

 wings with veins 6 and 7 from a point ; snow-white ; a hindmar- 

 ginal row of small black spots ; cilia white, basal half indistinctly 

 barred with dark fuscous on hindmarginal spots. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; one specimen bred in December, 

 Larva residing in a barricaded tunnel in young branches of 

 Ceratojjetaluin gibinmiferinn, carrying in leaves for food, in 

 October. 



4. Maroga, Walk. 

 Head with appressed scales ; ocelli absent ; tongue short. An- 

 tennae moderate, in male flatly dentate or filiform, shortly ciliated 

 (|-), basal joint somewhat swollen, without pecten. Labial palpi 

 moderately long, curved, ascending, second joint with appressed 

 scales, slightly rough beneath, terminal joint about half second, 

 smooth, acute. Maxillary palpi very short. Thorax smooth. 

 Abdomen stout, sides clothed with projecting hairs. Anterior 

 tarsi and tibia3 more or less thickened with scales, middle tibiae 

 rough-haired above, posterior tibiae densely rough-haired above 

 and beneath. Forewings with vein 1 long-furcate towards base, 

 2 from ^, 3 from angle, 4 and 5 closely approximated at base, 7 

 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex or costa, 11 from middle. Hind wings 

 over 1, oblong-ovate, towards base below median and towards 

 inner margin densely clothed with long hairs, 1 h shortly furcate 

 towards base, 3 and 4 from a point or short-stalked, 5 tolerably 

 parallel, 6 and 7 from a point or short-stalked, 8 connected with 

 cell at a point towards base. 



L Hindwings light orange. 28. mythica, 



" white or fuscous 2. 



