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joint |, wliite, cauterior edge dark fuscous. Antennte dark grey. 

 Thorax wliitish, irrorated witli grey, beneath in male with a 

 long slender expansible hairpencil on each side in front. Abdomen 

 grey-whitish. Legs dark fuscous, posterior pair grey-whitish. 

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

 margin extremely obliquely rounded ; fuscous-grey, sprinkled 

 with darker, and densely irrorated with white, especially in disc, 

 where it tends to form a longitudinal suffusion ; costa sufFusedly 

 rather darker; a dark fuscous dot in disc before middle, a second 

 on fold obliquely before first, and a third in disc at | : cilia pale 

 rey. Hindwings grey ; cilia pale grey. 

 Sydney, Xew South Wales ; common in February and March. 



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79. Scier. serina, n. sp. 



Male 20 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and legs dark 

 grey ; face and posterior legs grey-whitish ; terminal joint of 

 palpi almost 1. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex 

 roundpointed, hindmargin extremely obliquely rounded ; dark 

 grey ; some blackish scales, tending to form an ill-defined dot in 

 disc at -|, a second on fold obliquely beyond it, and a third in 

 disc at f : cilia dark grey. Hindwings grey, becoming darker 

 towards hindmargin ; cilia grey. 



Bathurst (2,500 feet), New South Wales ; in March, one 

 specimen. 



80. Scier. oxyptera, n. sp. 



Both sexes 12-18 mm. Head whitish, sometimes partially 

 greyish or ochreous-tinged. Palpi white, generally more or less 

 grey anteriorly, terminal joint |-|. Antennas grey. Thorax 

 ochreous-whitish. Abdomen whitish. Legs dark fuscous, pos- 

 terior pair whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently 

 arched, apex very acute, produced, hindmargin siuuate, extremely 

 oblique ; fuscous-grey, darker on costal half, in male more 

 ochreous-tinged, dorsal third in male paler and whitish tinged 

 throughout ; a moderate snow-white streak along costa from base 

 to near apex, leaving costal edge fuscous from near base to | ; 

 cilia pale whitish-fuscous, white on costa above apex of streak. 

 Hindwings grey or grey-whitish ; cilia pale grey or whitish, in 

 male pale greyish-ochreous. 



Sydney, New South AVales ; Mount Lofty, South Australia ; 

 Albany, West Australia ; in October and December, five speci- 

 mens. My materials for this species are somewhat discordant, 

 and I may have possibly confused more than one ; they comprise 

 three small dark females with grey hindwings from Sydney, one 

 large female with wliitish hindwings from Albany, and one more 

 ochreous-tinged male from Mount Lofty ; further discoveries will 



