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obscurely blackish -margined posteriorly ; orbicular 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 3J, dark fuscous, apex and basal joint white. Antennae 

 pubescent, dark grey, ciliations 1. Abdomen whitish-grey, segmental 

 margins whitish. Legs white, tibiae 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 ; claviform 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 1-J, 

 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 antennae. 



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 fuscous, somewhat mixed with 

 white, basal joint white. Antennas dark fuscous ; ciliations f . Abdomen 

 light fuscous-grey, segmental margins ochreous-whitish. Legs ochreous- 

 whitish, tibiae and tarsi banded with dark fuscous. Forewings moderately 

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