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line beneath; second line strong, pale yellow, almost straight, somewhat 
sinuate inwards below middle; subterminal line narrow, indistinct, pale 
yellow, hardly interrupted, not touching second line: cilia with basal third 
dark grey, remainder whitish-yellowish, with a grey posterior line. Hind- 
wings hardly over 1, fuscous-grey, becoming dark fuscous towards hind- 
margin ; cilia grey-whitish, with two cloudy grey lines. 
The smallest species of the genus known to me, not to be confused with 
any other. 
Sydney, New South Wales; Fernshaw, Victoria; Hobart, Evandale, and 
Deloraine, Tasmania; Wirrabara Forest and Mount Gambier, South 
Australia; from August to December, and in March, common in damp 
sheltered places, especially under wet and overhanging rock-faces. 
29. Scop. characta, n. sp. 
Male, female.—14-17 mm. Head light ochreous-yellow. Palpi 24, dark 
fuscous, mixed with yellowish above, basal joint yellowish-white. Antenne 
pale yellowish ; ciliations 4. Thorax whitish-ochreous mixed with dark 
fuscous, with a blackish spot on shoulder. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, 
sometimes irrorated with grey. Legs yellowish-white, tibi; and tarsi 
banded with dark fuscous. Forewings triangular, costa gently arched, apex 
rounded, hindmargin oblique, distinctly sinuate; light fuscous, densely 
irrorated with dark fuscous; inner margin whitish-ochreous towards base, 
margined above with black ; an obscure ochreous-whitish transverse line 
between first line and base; first line yellow-whitish, slender, tolerably 
distinet, somewhat curved, slightly indented, posteriorly blackish-margined, 
followed on costa by a small triangular blackish spot; orbicular suboval, 
cloudy, black, almost touching first line; claviform represented by a 
triangular eloudy black spot extending from first to second lines, margined 
above with yellow-whitish, posteriorly confluent with apex of a rather 
broad yellow-whitish inwardly oblique straight streak from costa at 8, which 
is separated from second line by a blackish shade; a straight light yellow- 
ochreous streak in dise between orbicular and claviform, extending from 
first to second lines, terminating in a yellow-whitish dot which represents 
lower half of reniform ; second line almost wholly obsolete, faintly indicated 
on costa ; subterminal line very ill-defined, narrow, yellow-whitish, hardly 
interrupted, remote from second line : cilia ochreous-whitish, barred with 
fuscous, with two dark fuscous lines, Hindwings 14, very pale whitish- 
grey, slightly ochreous-tinged ; central lunule, postmedian line, and hind- 
margin darker grey, distint ; cilia whitish, with two grey lines. 
A distinct species, easily recognized by the peculiar discal markings. 
Palmerston, Makatoku, Christchurch, Akaroa, and Dunedin, amongst 
forest, in February and March ; eight Specimens. 
