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Anteniice dark grey. Thorax whitish-ochreous, irrorated with 

 dark fuscous. Abdomen pale ochreous, segmental margins 

 ochreous-grey-whitish. Legs dark fuscous ringed with 



ochreous- whitish, posterior pair whitish-ochreous. Forewings 

 elongate, moderate, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen 

 very obliquely rounded ; pale whitish-ochreous, bronzy-shining, 

 irregularly irrorated with bronzy-fuscous; base narrowly suf- 

 fused with dark bronzy-fuscous ; stigmata rather large, cloudy, 

 dark fuscous, discal approximated, plical obliquely before first 

 discal, a similar additional dot directly above plical ; a curved 

 series of cloudy dark fuscous dots from four-fifths of costa to 

 a cloudy praetornal spot, upper half confluent with a cloudy 

 transverse costal blotch ; cilia pale whitish-ochreous, basal 

 half mixed with fuscous. Hindwings pale fuscous; cilia 

 fuscous-whitish. 



Gisborne, Victoria, in October (G. Lyell) ; one specimen. 



Apparently most allied to L. nomistis, but very distinct. 



TRACHYNTIS, Meyr. 



Trachyntis thrypticopa, n. sp. 



Male, 13 mm. Head white. Palpi white, lower three- 

 fifths of second joint and subbasal and apical rings of ter- 

 minal joint blackish. Antennae blackish. Thorax white, 

 partially ochreous-tinged. Abdomen grey. Legs dark fus- 

 cous, whitish-ringed, hairs of posterior tibiae fuscous- whitish. 

 Forewings elongate, narrow, costa moderately arched, a^pex 

 round-pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; pale 

 yellow-ochreous, with a few scattered blackish scales ; basal 

 area white, except a subcostal spot of groundcolor, and black 

 spots at base of costa and dorsum ; a white costal streak, inter- 

 rupted at one-fourth and one-half by bronzy-fuscous patches 

 irrorated with black, terminated posteriorly by apical patch ; 

 stigmata dark fuscous, first discal moderate, plical forming 

 an oval spot obliquely before first discal, second discal large, 

 connected with an irregular spot beneath and obliquely before 

 it, and followed by a white suffusion ; a large apical bronzy- 

 fuscous patch irrorated with blackish, narrowly extended along 

 termen to tornus, containing some whitish scales near apex ; 

 cilia light bronzy-fuscous, base sprinkled with blackish. Hind- 

 wings grey ; cilia light grey. 



Gisborne, Victoria, in November (G. Lyell) ; one specimen. 



Extremely distinct ; may be placed next T. xenopis. 



