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dark fuscous ; subterruinal 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 1^-, pale whitish-grey, greyer on hindmargin and to- 

 wards apes ; 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), eumeles, n. sp. 



Male. — 14-16 mm. Head, palpi, antenna, thorax, and abdomen 

 whitish-ochreous, slightly mixed with ochreous ; palpi 2, basal joint white ; 

 anteunal ciliations ^. Legs white, anterior and middle tibiae 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 

 claviform 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 li, 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 If, black, basal and 

 terminal joints white. Antennas dark grey. Thorax white, anterior margin 

 irregularly black. Abdomen ochreous-white, apex more ochreous. Legs 



