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sinuate, very oblique ; pale fuscous, irrorated with darker; a small blackish 
spot at base of inner margin ; a straight rather irregular black streak from 
base to somewhat before middle of dise, almost meeting a triangular 
blackish bloteh, of which the apex is directed downwards, placed in dise 
beyond middle, its posterior side bounded by second line; dorsal half of 
wing below these black markings wholly white, sharply defined above, 
slightly suffused with greyish beneath; first line faintly indicated by 
angulated darker posterior margin ; two short oblique cloudy dark fuscous 
streaks in dise, terminating in triangular blotch; second line white, indis- 
tinct towards costa, obsolete in dorsal suffusion, rectilinear, very obtusely 
angulated above middle, very slightly sinuate near costa; upper half of 
subterminal line forming a whitish triangular blotch, suffusedly margined 
beneath with black, apex touching angle of second-line, lower half merged 
in dorsal suffusion ; a hindmarginal row of black dots: cilia whitish, with 
two grey lines. Hindwings 14, grey-whitish, hindmargin faintly suffused 
with darker ; cilia white, with a grey line. 
Nearly allied to S. exilis, but easily distinguished by the smaller size, 
well-defined white dorsal suffusion, strong black streak from base, black 
triangular blotch beyond middle, straighter second line, and black triangu- 
lar spot on middle of hindmargin. 
Castle Hill, amongst grass in a swampy place at 2,500 feet, flying freely 
towards dusk, in January ; common. 
53. Scop. exilis, Knaggs. 
(Scoparia exilis, Knaggs, Ent. Mo. Mag., iv., 81.) 
Male.—18-20 mm.; female.—16 mm. Head white. Palpi 3-8}, dark 
fuscous, apex and basal joint white. Antenne grey ; ciliations 3. Thorax 
fuscous, with a white anterior spot. Abdomen whitish-grey, segmental 
margins white. Legs white irrorated with fuscous, anterior and middle 
pair suffused with dark fuscous. Forewings very elongate, narrow, trian- 
gular, costa straight, apex rounded, hindmargin almost straight, very 
oblique; pale greyish-ochreous, irregularly irrorated with white; veins 
obscurely lined with blackish ; costal edge narrowly suffused with blackish ; 
first line very obscure, whitish, posteriorly slightly dark-margined, angu- 
lated in middle, not oblique; orbicular obsolete; claviform moderately 
large, elongate, black, conspicuous; reniform obsolete on upper half, lower 
half round, white, partially finely black-margined ; second line tolerably 
distinct, white, anteriorly irregularly blackish-margined except towards 
inner margin, angularly indented beneath costa, very shortly angulated 
above middle, slightly indented near inner margin; subterminal broad, 
eloudy, white, not interrupted, almost touching second line ; a hindmarginal 
row of cloudy almost confluent blackish dots: eilia white, with two dark 
