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or blackish streak, variable in intensity, from angle of first line to position 
of reniform, interrupted in middle except on lower margin by an oblique 
oblong pale or whitish spot; claviform small, linear, blackish, often indis- 
tinct; second line whitish, generally distinct, interrupting veins which are 
more or less distinctly lined with blackish posteriorly, rectilinear, sharply 
indented below costa and sharply angulated above middle; subterminal line 
cloudy, whitish, suffused into hindmargin, interrupted above middle; a 
hindmarginal row of blackish dots: cilia grey-whitish, with two dark fus- 
cous lines. Hindwings pale ochreous-grey, with a narrow hindmarginal 
dark grey suffusion, broader at apex ; cilia grey-whitish, with a dark grey 
line. - 
Variable both in colour and intensity of marking ; imitating the bark on 
which it sits. 
Blackheath (8,500 feet), New South Wales; Mount Macedon, Victoria ; 
Mount Gambier, South Australia; locally very abundant on trunks of 
fibrous-barked species of Eucalyptus, in November and December, taking 
flight with great activity when approached. Itis exceedingly probable that 
the larva feeds in the bark of these trees. 
4. Xxnoscopa, Meyr 
Forehead vertical. Ocelli present. Tongue well-developed. Antenne 
moderate, $ of forewings, in male filiform, evenly ciliated (4-1). Labial 
palpi rather long or long, straight, porrected, second joint beneath with 
long dense projecting scales, terminal joint moderate, exposed or resting in 
scales of second. Maxillary palpi rather long, triangularly dilated. Pos- 
terior tibie with outer spurs half inner. Abdomen moderate. Forewings 
with vein 11 rather oblique. Hindwings from 4-3 broader than fore- 
wings ; 8 remote from 4, 4 and 5 stalked or from a point; lower median 
naked ; discal area above it furnished with long hairs, not continued 
beyond transverse vein (except in X. philonephes); internal area loosely 
haired. 
Distinguished from Scoparia only by the long hairs of the discal area ; 
the genus is undoubtedly natural, and its separation materially assists the 
study of the group. The species resemble those of the second group o 
Scoparia, and almost all of large size and decidedly crambideous facies. 
The larve are yet unknown, but probably of similar habits. 
The genus is especially characteristic of New Zealand, whence fifteen 
species are described; there is one Tasmanian species, and also one Aus- 
tralian, if the latter is correctly separated from Tetraprosopus. None 
are yet known elsewhere, but perhaps only because they have not been 
recognized, 
