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48. Cler. agana, n. sp. 



Botli sexes 15-18 mm. Head and tliorax white, densely 

 irrorated with ochreous-grey. Palpi white, second joint dark 

 ochreous-grey, except at base and apex ; terminal joint grey on 

 anterior edge. Antenna? whitish. Abdomen grey-whitish. Legs 

 grey, posterior pair whitish. Forewings elongate, costa mode- 

 rately arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin very obliquely 

 rounded ; white, irrorated with dark ochreous-grey, dorsal half 

 suffused with pale grey; four small roundish cloudy rather dark 

 grey spots, first three arranged in a longitudinal row in disc at J, 

 1, and I, fourth directly beneath third : • cilia whitish, base 

 sprinkled with dark grey. Hindwings pale whitish-grey ; cilia 

 ochreous-whitish. 



Mount Lofty, South Australia ; Geraldton and Perth, West 

 Australia, from October to January, and in April; six specimens. 

 Larva feeding in seed-cones of Banksia marginata, forming a mat 

 of the soft down, which is spread along the branch, several larvae 

 living together. For this information I am indebted to Mr. E. 

 Guest, who has bred the species. 



49. Chr. dryinoiJa, n. sp. 



Female 24 mm, Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and abdomen 

 ochreous- white, partially tinged with brownish-ochreous ; ab- 

 dominal segments with obscure narrow median transverse reddish 

 bars. Legs whitish, suffused with light ochreous. Forewings 

 elongate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin 

 nearly straight, rather oblique ; white, irregularly irrorated Avith 

 light ochreous ; markings light brownish-ochreous, irregularly 

 irrorated with dark fuscous ; a moderate cloudy streak from base 

 beneath costa to apex ; a rather broad streak along inner margin 

 from near base to anal angle, confluent with a small spot on sub- 

 median fold before middle ; an irregular cloudy transverse streak 

 from before 4 of costa to anal angle ; a broader cloudy transverse 

 streak, angulated outwards above middle, from f of costa to anal 

 angle, where it coalesces with preceding ; a cloudy streak round 

 apex and along hindmargin : cilia pale ochreous, irrorated with 

 fuscous, and indistinctly barred with whitish. Hindwings 

 fuscous-whitish, terminal third suffused with fuscous, darker 

 posteriorly ; cilia fuscous-whitish, on upper half of hindmargin 

 indistinctly barred with fuscous. 



Melbourne, Victoria ; one specimen received from Mr. G. H. 

 Raynor. 



12. Plectophila, n. g. 



Head loosely haired ; ocelli absent ; tongue developed. An- 

 tennae moderate, in male serrate, shortly ciliated (\-h), basal 

 joint moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi long, recurved, 



