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short transverse brownish streak, to the posterior edge of 

 which is closely applied a crescentic whitish streak, edged pos- 

 teriorly with dark-fuscous ; a fine dentate posterior trans- 

 verse line; some dark-fuscous suffusion in mid-disc and again 

 beyond posterior line, the latter containing some blackish 

 streaks and brownish scales, and forming a sharp wavy sub- 

 terminal edge ; terminal area whitish-grey ; a fine fuscous ter- 

 minal line ; cilia grey, with a fine basal brownish line. Hind- 

 wings with termen rounded, slightly sinuate ; grey : cilia white 

 with a grey antemedian line, on apex and dorsum grey. 

 Type in Coll. Drake, 



v.. Black Rock, near Melbourne, in March; two speci- 

 mens. 



Caradrina cryph^a, n. sp. 

 (Kriiphaios, hidden.) 

 (S 9 , 32-36 mm. Head and thorax fuscous or brownish- 

 fuscous. Palpi dark-fuscous, apex of second joint more or 

 less whitish. Antennae pale-fuscous ; in d serrate and shortly 

 ciliated (^). Abdomen grey, sometimes mixed with whitish- 

 ochreous. Legs fuscous, tarsi annulated with whitish ; pos- 

 terior, femora, and tibiae clothed with long whitish hairs. 

 Forewings elongate, costa scarcely arched, apex, rounded, ter- 

 men rounded beneath ; whitish-grey, with some brownish suf- 

 fusion, especially towards termen, or grey mixed with ochre- 

 ous-whitish ; basal line obsolete, represented by two fuscous 

 dots on costa; a fine dentate transverse line at i, sometimes 

 double ; orbicular obsolete, sometimes a transverse fuscous 

 median shade, from mid-costa obliquely outwards, then bent 

 inwards and again bent to dorsum beyond middle; reniform 

 faintly indicated by a brownish or pale-ochreous suffused 

 spot ; a finely dentate postmedian line from | costa to | dor- 

 sum, succeeded by some dark streaks on veins ; a dark sub- 

 terminal shade sharply defined posteriorly ; a terminal series 

 of indistinct dark-fuscous dots, sometimes obsolete ; cilia con- 

 colorous. Hindwings with termen rounded ; whitish, to- 

 wards termen suffused with fuscous ; cilia fuscous at apex, 

 becoming whitish towards tornus. 

 Type in Coll. Lyell. 



v., Gisborne, Castlemaine, and Murtoa, in March and 

 April ; a series received from Mr. G. Lyell. 



Caradrina leucosticta, n. sp. 

 (Leucosfikfos, white-spotted.) 

 9, 26-28 mm. Head and thorax brown; lower edge of 

 face ochreous-whitish. Palpi dark-fuscous : terminal joiat 



