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obscurely blackish-margined posteriorly ; orbieular and claviform irregular, 
reddish-ochreous, partially black-margined, touching first line; reniform 
subquadrate, reddish-ochreous, anteriorly and posteriorly blackish-mar- 
gined ; second line not paler, anteriorly blackish-margined ; terminal area 
rather densely irrorated with black, except subterminal line, touching 
second line in middle: cilia whitish-grey, with a broad interrupted dark 
grey line. Hindwings 1}, grey, becoming darker on hindmargin ; cilia 
grey-whitish, with a grey line. 
A peculiar and distinct species, with hindmargin of forewings more 
oblique than usual. 
Mount Wellington, Tasmania, (probably about 2,000 feet), in February ; 
one specimen. 
14. Scop. oreas, n. sp. 
Male.—22 mm. Head and thorax whitish, strongly mixed with dark 
fuscous. Palpi 34, dark fuscous, apex and basal joint white. Antenne 
pubescent, dark grey, ciliations 1. Abdomen whitish-grey, segmental 
margins whitish. Legs white, tibi: and tarsi banded with blackish. 
Forewings very elongate, tolerably triangular, costa slightly arched, apex 
rounded, hindmargin obliquely rounded; white, somewhat mixed with pale 
grey, and rather thinly irrorated with dark fuscous; some obscure dark 
fuscous spots near base; first line white, very indistinct, somewhat curved, 
tolerably indented, posteriorly obscurely margined with dark fuscous ; 
orbicular moderate, roundish, dark fuscous, detached ; elaviform moderate, 
broadly linear, dark fuscous, touching first line; reniform 8-shaped, 
whitish, margined with dark fuscous, upper and lower margins incomplete ; 
second line white, indistinct, dilated to form spots on costa and inner 
margin, obscurely margined with dark fuscous ; subterminal broad, white, 
ill-defined, narrowly interrupted above middle, apex of lower portion almost 
coalescing with second line; hindmargin dark fuscous, with a row of white 
dots: cilia white, with a sharply-defined dark fuscous line. Hindwings 14, 
grey-whitish, apex hardly darker ; cilia whitish. 
Nearly allied to S. philerga, but readily distinguished by the longer and 
narrower forewings, and whitish hindwings, as well as the pubescence and 
longer ciliations of antenne. 
Lake Wakatipu, at 5,000 feet, in December ; one specimen. 
15. Scop. philerga, n. sp. 
Male, female.—17-21 mm. Head and thorax whitish, mixed with fuscous, 
and irrorated with black. Palpi 2}, dark fuseous, somewhat mixed with 
white, basal joint white. Antenne dark fuscous ; ciliations $. Abdomen 
light fuscous-grey, segmental margins ochreous-whitish. Legs ochreous- 
whitish, tibiz and tarsi banded with dark fuscous, Forewings moderately 
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