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* 27. Scop, anaplecta, n. sp. 



Male, female. — 14^—15^ mm. Head dark fuscous, with a longitudinal 

 whitisk-ockreous streak on crown. Palpi 2§ , dark fuscous, apex of maxillary 

 wkite, basal joint of labial ockreous-wkite. Antennae dark fuscous, in male 

 pubescent ; ciliations f . Tkorax fuscous, irrorated witk black, slightly 

 mixed witk wkitisk-ockreous. Abdomen fuscous-grey, segmental margins 

 wkitisk-ockreous. Legs yellowisk- wkite, tibiae and tarsi banded witk dark 

 fuscous. Forewings triangular, costa slightly arcked, apex rounded, kind- 

 margin rounded, ratker strongly oblique ; purplish-grey, densely irrorated 

 with black ; an elongate pale whitish-ochreous spot on inner margin, 

 extending from near base to first line ; first line well-defined, ockreous- 

 whitish, rather curved, moderately indented ; orbicular small, round, black, 

 touching first line ; claviform somewhat larger, roundish, black, tolerably 

 detached ; ■ reniform represented by a cloudy black wedge-shaped mark, 

 margined above with some yellow-whitish scales ; an ochreous-white 

 suffusion towards middle of inner margin ; second line well-defined, 

 ockreous-wkitisk, near inner margin ratker skarply angulated inwards ; 

 subterminal line ockreous-wkitisk, in female broad, kardly interrupted, 

 almost toucking second line, in male reduced to several small spots : cilia 

 ockreous-wkitisk, witk a dark grey interrupted basal and faint posterior 

 line. Hindwings 1^, ockreous-wkitisk, witk a few grey scales, lunule and 

 postmedian line obscurely indicated, a ratker broad kindmarginal band 

 suffusedly dark fuscous ; cika as in forewings. 



Tkis and tke following species kave tke kindwings proportionately 

 narrower tkan in any otker of tke genus, and are ckaracterized by tke 

 yellowisk tint of tkeir pale markings ; S. anaplecta especially also by tke 

 pale dorsal spots, and tke ockreous-wkitisk dark-margined kindwings. 



Mount Wellington, Tasmania, at 3,200 feet, in December ; two speci- 

 mens. 



* 28. Scop, spelcea, n. sp. 



Male, female. — 9-12 mm. Head pale yellow, witk a dark fuscous streak 

 across crown. Palpi 2-|, dark fuscous, apex and basal joint wkitisk-yellow. 

 Antennae wkitisk-yellow, annulated witk dark fuscous ; ciliations f . Tkorax 

 wkitisk-yellow, a central spot and one on eack skoulder blackisk. Abdomen 

 dark fuscous-grey. Legs wkitisk-yellow, banded witk dark fuscous. Fore- 

 wings triangular, costa almost straigkt, apex rounded, kindmargin obliquely 

 rounded ; ratker dark fuscous, irrorated witk blackisk ; a pale yellow streak 

 from middle of base to J- of inner margin ; a pale yellow dot on costa near 

 base ; first line skarply defined, pale yellow, regularly curved, not indented ; 

 orbicular and claviform absent ; a cloudy pale yellow spot above middle of 

 inner margin; reniform narrow, pale yellow, sometimes toucking second 



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