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and blacker, and there is generally a very distinct centre spot, 

 A common insect, flying among grass. 



12. Ameloka amblopa, Meyr. 



Expanse, 1' 5". March. 



Ground colour much as in A. demistis, but there is a dark 

 rounded line running from costa at four-fifths to inner margin 

 at two-thirds. Outside this the colour is more of a silvery 

 gray. A common moth, but appears to be rather local. 



13. Epicompsa x ant ho cross a, Meyr. 



Expanse, 8". March 26th, 1886. 



This pretty little insect is in shape a good deal like the 

 English Peacock Moth (Macaria notata), to which it is in fact 

 related. My one specimen is the only one known, and it was 

 taken just about daybreak. The general tint of fore-wings is 

 ash colour, but the extreme costal edge is orange, and a narrow 

 stripe of the same colour runs round the hind margin. There 

 are two distinct triangular-shaped black marks on costa, and a 

 series of semicircular ones along the hind margin, which last is 

 highly angulated and dentated. The basal half of hind-wings 

 is gray, the outer half being rich brown ; and there is a large- 

 round patch of this same colour at anal angle of fore-wings. 

 The genus as well as species is new to science. 



14. Idiodes apicata, Grn. 



Expanse, 1' 11" to 2'. August, January, March. 



One of the most variable insects I have met with ; hardly 

 two specimens are alike, and there appear to be four distinct 

 types of markings. The fore-wings are sharp-pointed, and 

 strongly hooked at apex, and there is generally a straight 

 diagonal line running from apex across both wings to centre of 

 inner margin of the hind one. In type 1 the ground is 

 greenish, and stripe yellow. In type 2 the ground is reddish- 

 brown, and stripe dark purplish-brown. In type 3 the whole 

 of both wings is suffused with dark purplish-red, forming 

 indistinct smeary blotches ; while in type 4 — which is by far 

 the rarest — the ground is as in type 1, but on the outside of 

 the yellow line are three large round bluish-black spots, with 

 white centres ; the two nearest the apex being nearly confluent. 

 Some years this curious moth may be obtained plentifully by 

 beating gum saplings, but the summer brood is always dwarfed 

 in size, and some years the species appears to be absent alto- 

 gether. 



15. Mnesampela peivata, On. 



Expanse, 1' 6*. March and April. 



Eore-wings hooked ; yellowish-brown, with a darker shade 

 across fore-wing at half. Hind-wings bright orange. Common 



