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lateral stripes. Abdomen pale ochreous-grey. Forewing^ 

 elongate, rather narrow, costa moderately arched, apex round- 

 pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; whitish, irregularly 

 streaked with dark fuscous between veins; a thicker subcostal 

 streak from base of costa to beneath middle of costa, an irre- 

 gular-edged median longitudinal streak from base tO' apex, and 

 a broader dorsal streak from near base to tomus ; cilia fuscous, 

 mixed with dark fuscous, base mixed with white. Hindwings 

 and cilia light ochreous-grey. 



Sydney, New South Wales, in November and December ; 

 three specimens. 



The strong dorsal streak distinguishes it equally from the 

 preceding insect, and from the very similar species of the 

 following genus. All these frequent the trunks of stringy- 

 barked Eucalypti, and are colored for concealment in ^hat 

 situation. 



LEPTOSACES, Meyr. 



Head smooth-scaled ; tongue develojped. Antennae three- 

 fourths, serrulate, in male simple, basal joint moderate, with- 

 out pecten. Labial palpi very long, recurved, second joint 

 thickened with scales, more or less rough towards apex above 

 and beneath, terminal joint shorter than second, slender, acute. 

 Posterior tibiae clothed with long fine hairs above. Fore- 

 wings : 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from midde of cell. 

 Hindwings (1), elongate-ovate, cilia two-thirds; '3 and 4 con- 

 nate. 



Based on a New Zealand species, from which the Australian 

 forms only appear to differ in the more roughly scaled palpi, 

 and as even in them the rough scaling seems to be sometimes 

 naturally appressed, there is no sufficient cause for discrimi- 

 nation. 



Leptosaces schistopa, n. sp. 



Male and female, 13-18 mm. Head fuscous-whitish mixed 

 with fuscous, crown darker centrally. Palpi fuscous-whitish 

 mixed with dark fuscous. Thorax light fuscous, whitish- 

 sprinkled, with blackish dorsal and lateral stripes. Abdomen 

 light fuscous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa 

 moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely 

 rounded ; whitish, somewhat mixed with fuscous, coarsely and 

 irregularly streaked with blackish-fuscous between veins; a 

 blackish-fuscous median longitudinal streak from base to 

 termen, finely attenuated basally ; a stronger blackish-fuscous 

 subdorsal streak from base to tornus ; cilia dark fuscous, 



