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fuscous, slightly sprinkled with whitish-ochreous. Abdomen pale 

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

 whitish. Fore wings elongate, costa in male gently, in female 

 moderately arched, apex rounded, hindmargin very obliquely 

 rounded ; fuscous, densely irrorated with dark fuscous ; a series 

 of faint longitudinal dark marks before hindmargin : cilia fuscous, 

 basal half irrorated with dark fuscous. Hindwings whitish- 

 fuscous, towards apex somewhat darker ; cilia whitish-fuscous, 

 with a darker line, tips white. 



Mount Lofty, South Australia ; three specimens. Distin- 

 guished from all others by the apparently nearly uniform dark 

 fuscous forewings. 



93. Agr. atratella, Walk. 



(Acrobasis atratella, Walk. Suppl. 1712.) 



Male 15-19 mm. Head, palpi, antennas, and thorax blackish- 

 fuscous. Abdomen whitish-grey. Legs dark fuscous, apex of 

 joints and posterior tibiae grey-wdiitish. Forewings elongate, 

 costa gently arched, apex rounded, hindmargin very obliquely 

 rounded ; dark fuscous, somewhat purple-shining, with a few 

 scattered whitish-grey scales ; disc irregularly mixed with black, 

 tending to form short streaks on veins ; a very minute, some- 

 times obsolete, whitish dot in disc at f ; a series of indistinct 

 blackish spots beneath costa from \ to near apex, thence curved 

 round near hindmargin to anal angle : cilia dark fuscous, basal 

 half irrorated with blackish, with obscure ill-defined grey-whitish 

 bars. Hindwings light grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 



Newcastle and Blackheath (3,500 feet). New South Wales ; 

 from September to November, live s]3ecimens. Easily separated 

 from the preceding by the blackish markings and smaller size. 



94. Agr. cindereUa, Newm. 



(Chimabacche cindereUa, Newm., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (N.S.) 

 IIL, 288.) 



Both sexes 35 mm. Head, palpi, antenna?, and thorax ashy- 

 grey. Forewings ashy-grey, irrorated with black ; disc with 

 several short black streaks ; a curved series of lunate blackish 

 spots near hindmargin ; a hindmarginal row of black dots. 

 Hindwings paler grey. 



Melbourne, Victoria. The above description is taken from 

 Newman ; I have seen specimens of this species, but do not 

 possess it, and omitted to take any description from them ; it is 

 immediately recognisable by its large size. 



95. Agr. cinerosa, Ros. 

 Agi'iophara cinerosa, Ros., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1885, 439.) 

 Both sexes 20-22 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax 

 whitish, densely irrorated with dark fuscous. Abdomen pale 



