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Abdomen whitish. Legs wliite, anterior pair dark fuscous. 

 Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex 

 round-pointed, hindmargin very obliquely rounded ; 7 to apex ; 

 white, thinly and irregularly irrorated with black ; a pale fuscous 

 suffusion, forming a very indistinct blotcli on anterior half of 

 inner margin, a spot on inner margin before anal angle, a spot 

 on costa beyond middle and another at f, all very faint and 

 obscure : cilia white, irrorated with fuscous, appearing to form 

 obscure darker bars, with an irregular row of black points. 

 Hindwings whitish, with a bluish tinge, veins and hindmargin 

 obscurely grey ; cilia whitish, with faint traces of two grey lines. 

 Blackheath (3,500 feet). New South Wales ; one specimen in 

 January. 



42. Lick, choriodes, n. sp. 



Both sexes 14-22mm. Head and antenna3 white, ciliations in 

 male almost 2. Palpi white, second joint dark fuscous towards 

 base. Thorax white, with some dark fuscous scales, and a small 

 posterior dark fuscous spot. Abdomen whitish. Legs wliite, an- 

 terior pair dark fuscous, middle pair spotted with dark fuscous. 

 Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, hind 

 margin very obliquely rounded ; 7 to apex or near below it ; white, 

 more or less densely irrorated with fuscous, and generally partially 

 wdth black ; markings ill-defined, formed by confluence of this irro- 

 ration ; a narrow transverse streak near base, not reaching costa ; 

 a triangular blotch on inner margin before middle, apex generally 

 more blackish, reaching more than half across wing, ground 

 colour above this blotch generally clear-white without irroration; 

 a cloudy spot on costa beyond middle and another at anal angle, 

 nearly confluent ; two dark fuscous transversely placed some- 

 times confluent dots in disc at |^ ; a more or less indicated pale 

 angulated subterminal line, preceded and followed by darker 

 suflusion : cilia whitish, with two cloudy fuscous lines, on costa 

 indistinctly barred. Hindwings light fuscous, more whitish- 

 fuscous towards base ; cilia whitish, with a cloudy fuscous line. 



Rosewood, Queensland ; Sydney, New South Wales ; Mel- 

 bourne, Victoria ; in December and February, rather common 

 on fences. Larva feeding on lichen-dust on fences, beneath a 

 gallery of web and refuse, forming a tunnel in a crevice for 

 shelter, in September. This species is also a very variable one. 



43. Lich. tuherculata, n. sp. 



Both sexes 19-2 7mm. Head grey-whitish or grey. Palpi white, 

 irrorated with dark fuscous. Antennae grey, sprinkled wdth 

 white, ciliations in male \. Thorax grey, sometimes mixed with 

 blackish. Abdomen fuscous- whitish. Legs white, more or less 



