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dark fuscous; subterminal line white, somewhat broader and more ill- 
defined, leaving a dark fuscous triangular blotch on hindmargin: cilia 
white, with a basal row of dark fuscous spots, and posterior row of grey 
spots. Hindwings 14, pale whitish-grey, greyer on hindmargin and to- 
wards apex; cilia whitish, with a grey line. 
Not closely resembling any other, and recognizable by the character of 
the spots, which are conspicuous though not sharply defined. 
Sydney, New South Wales, from May to August, so that it is a winter 
species ; five specimens. 
* 4, Scop. ewmeles, n. sp. 
Male.—14-16mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, and abdomen 
whitish-ochreous, slightly mixed with ochreous ; palpi 2, basal joint white ; 
antennal ciliations 4. Legs white, anterior and middle tibie and tarsi 
banded with blackish. Forewings somewhat elongate, triangular, costa 
gently arched, apex rounded, hindmargin obliquely rounded; very pale 
whitish-ochreous, finely irrorated with fuscous on basal third, with blackish 
on remainder; a faint blackish triangle on base of costa ; first line slender, 
tolerably clear, somewhat curved, slightly indented, posteriorly finely black- 
ish margined, forming a small black triangular spot on costa ; orbicular and 
elaviform both small, round, black, detached; a small black triangular spot 
on costa beyond middle, separated from second line by a subquadrate light 
yellow-ochreous spot ; reniform irregularly 8-shaped, light yellow-ochreous, 
only black-margined in middle of posterior side; second line tolerably clear, 
anteriorly finely blackish-margined, more strongly on inner margin ; terminal 
space suffused with pale grey, except broad cloudy subterminal line, which 
is interrupted above middle, apex of lower portion touching second line; a 
terminal row of light yellow-ochreous semi-oval spots, anteriorly blackish- 
margined: cilia pale whitish-ochreous, faintly barred with grey, with two 
interrupted lines, first dark fuscous, second grey. Hindwings 1}, pale 
whitish-ochreous, faintly greyish; cilia ochreous-whitish, becoming pale 
yellow-ochreous towards base round apex. 
A very distinct and elegant species, known by the whitish-ochreous 
colour and small round detached orbicular and claviform ; the hindwings 
are narrower than usual. 
Sydney, New South Wales, in April, on sandstone rock-faces, to which 
its colouring is adapted; two specimens. 
* 5. Scop. aphrodes, n. sp. 
Female.—15-17 mm. Head white, back of crown, a spot beneath each 
antenna, and a dot in middle of face black. Palpi 1$, black, basal and 
terminal joints white. Antenne dark grey. Thorax white, anterior margin 
irregularly black. Abdomen ochreous-white, apex more ochreous. Legs 
