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size, is especially obtuse), and absence of any sexual tornal 

 suffusion. Mr. George Masters gave me a specimen which 

 he bred from a larva feeding on dried skins, and my other 

 exanijples were all taken near houses; it is, therefore, pro- 

 bably semi-domestic, living on dried animal refuse, and may, 

 perhaps, be found to occur also in other countries; the other 

 species, however, occur in native bush, and show no sign of 

 similar habits. 



Blastobasis tarda, n. sp. 



Male, 13-16 mm.; female, 15-21 mm. Head and thorax 

 light brownish-ochreous, sometimes infuscated. Palpi pale 

 brownish-ochreous, in male with second joint suffused with 

 dark fuscous towards base, with an ochreous-whitish well-de- 

 fined patch covering upper part of its apical two-thirds on 

 inner side, in female irrorated with fuscous or dark fuscous, 

 terminal joint in male obtuse. Antennae brownish-ochreous. 

 Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs pale ochreous, banded with 

 dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, very narrow, long- 

 pointed ; light brownish-ochreous, more or less suffusedly 

 mixed \vith fuscous ; two very indistinct slender dark fuscous 

 transverse fasciae, first at two-fifths, angulated in middle, second 

 at three-fourths, straight, slightly oblique inwards, tending to 

 be broken into three ^pots; two or three indistinct dark fus- 

 cous marginal dots round apex ; cilia pale brownish-ochreous. 

 Hindwings pale brownish-ochreous, more or less infuscated 

 except towards base, in male with reddish-fuscous suffusion 

 towards tornus ; cilia pale brownish-ochreous. 



Rosewood and Brisbane, Queensland ; Newcastle and Sdney, 

 New South Wales; in June, and from August to January ,^ 

 common. 



May be known from the three following by its ochreous 

 tinge, they being all grey wathout ochreous tinge ; the male is 

 specially distinguished by the defined pale patch on second 

 joint of palpi internally, and reddish-fuscous tornal suffusion of 

 hindwings. 



Blastobasis nephelias, n. sp. 



Male, 15-16 mm. Head and thorax grey, whitish-sprinkled. 

 Palpi whitish-ochreous. externally mixed with dark fuscous, 

 apex in male obtuse. Antennae grey, apex of basal joint 

 whitish. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. Legs 

 ochreous-whitish irrorated with dark fuscous, with pale rings. 

 Forewings elongate, very narrow, long-pointed ; grey, irrorated 

 with whitish, with some scattered dark grey scales; plical 



