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10b. Without blackish discal streak. 
lla. First line straight b is is is -. 385. periphanes. 
. = curved MS "om ^ E .. . 25. ergatis. 
8b. First line absent. 
9a. Thorax with sharp blackish-fuscous lateral stripe. 
10a. Basal dark streak in a line with discal .. e .. 59. trivirgata: 
lob 5; 3 parallel with discal .. Pe .. 58. panopla. 
9b. Thorax without lateral stripe. 
10a. Dorsal half of wing white x ia ix .. 52. steropea, 
10b 5s re white. 
lla. Reniform represented by a whitish dot .. a .. 55. paltomacha. 
HA uu » by a black dot .. -- 56. deltophora. 
* 2. Scop. anthracias, n. sp. 
Male, female,—15-16 mm. ^ Head, palpi, antenne, and thorax dark 
fuscous mixed with black; palpi 21; antennal ciliations 4. Abdomen 
grey. Legs black, apex of joints white. Forewings elongate, triangular, 
costa slightly arched, apex rounded, hindmargin obliquely rounded; dark 
slaty-fuscous ; markings black, ill-defined ; a short interrupted streak from 
base ; first line somewhat curved; orbicular and claviform irregular, some- 
what linear, touching first line; reniform represented by a trifurcate mark ; 
second line almost rectangularly bent in disc, followed on costa by some 
white scales; veins partially marked with black posteriorly: cilia dark 
slaty-fuscous, with a black line, tips pale. Hindwings 14; pale whitish- 
grey, towards hindmargin grey; cilia grey-whitish, with two faint grey 
lines, . 
Doubtless protectively coloured to resemble charred tree-trunks, like 
Bondia. 
Launceston and Mount Wellington, Tasmania, in J anuary; three speci- 
mens. 
*3. Scop. chiasta, n. sp. 
Male.—14-17 mm. Head white. Palpi 12, dark fuscous, basal and 
terminal joints white. Antenne white, annulated with dark fuscous, cilia- 
tions 4. Thorax white, irrorated with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish- 
grey. Legs dark fuseous, banded with white. Forewings elongate-trian- 
gular, costa slightly arched, apex rounded, hindmargin obliquely rounded ; 
white, irregularly irrorated with fuscous and dark fuscous; a short dark 
fuscous streak from base of costa parallel to inner margin ; first line white, 
oblique, rather indented, posteriorly margined with dark fuscous, which 
forms a triangular spot on costa; orbicular elongate, touching first line, 
dark fuscous ; claviform strong, elongate, touching first line, dark fuscous; 
reniform represented by a quadrifurcate dark fuscous mark, upper fork 
sometimes filled with fuscous; a small dark fuscous spot on costa some- 
what beyond middle ; second line white, tolerably distinctly margined with 
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