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line beneath; second line strong, pale yellow, almost straight, somewhat 

 sinuate inwards below middle ; subterminal line narrow, indistinct, pale 

 yellow, hardly interrupted, not touching second line : cilia with basal third 

 dark grey, remainder whitish-yellowish, with a grey posterior line. Hind- 

 wings hardly over 1, fuscous-grey, becoming dark fuscous towards hind- 

 margin ; cilia grey-whitish, with two cloudy grey lines. 



The smallest species of the genus known to me, not to be confused with 

 any other. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; Fernshaw, Victoria ; Hobart, Evandale, and 

 Deloraine, Tasmania; Wirrabara Forest and Mount Gambier, South 

 Australia; from August to December, and in March, common in damp 

 sheltered places, especially under wet and overhanging rock-faces. 

 29. Scop, characta, n. sp. 

 Male, female. — 14-17 mm. Head light ochreous-yellow. Palpi %\, dark 

 fuscous, mixed with yellowish above, basal joint yellowish-white. Antennae 

 pale yellowish ; ciliations J. Thorax whitish-ochreous mixed with dark 

 fuscous, with a blackish spot on shoulder. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, 

 sometimes irrorated with grey. Legs yellowish- white, tibiae and tarsi 

 banded with dark fuscous. Forewings triangular, costa gently arched, apex 

 rounded, hindmargin oblique, distinctly sinuate ; light fuscous, densely 

 irrorated with dark fuscous ; inner margin whitish-ochreous towards base, 

 margined above with black ; an obscure ochreous-whitish transverse line 

 between first line and base ; first line yellow- whitish, slender, tolerably 

 distinct, somewhat curved, slightly indented, posteriorly blackish-margined, 

 followed on costa by a small triangular blackish spot ; orbicular suboval, 

 cloudy, black, almost touching first line ; claviform represented by a 

 triangular cloudy black spot extending from first to second lines, margined 

 above with yellow-whitish, posteriorly confluent with apex of a rather 

 broad yellow- whitish inwardly oblique straight streak from costa at f , which 

 is separated from second line by a blackish shade ; a straight light yellow- 

 ochreous streak in disc between orbicular and claviform, extending from 

 first to second lines, terminating in a yellow-whitish dot which represents 

 lower half of reniform ; second line almost wholly obsolete, faintly indicated 

 on costa ; subterminal line very ill-defined, narrow, yellow-whitish, hardly 

 interrupted, remote from second line : cilia ochreous-whitish, barred with 

 fuscous, with two dark fuscous lines. Hindwings lj, very pale whitish- 

 grey, slightly ochreous-tinged ; central lunule, postmedian line, and hind- 

 margin darker grey, distinct ; cilia whitish, with two grey lines. 



A distinct species, easily recognized by the peculiar discal markings. 

 Palmerston, Makatoku, Christchurch, Akaroa, and Dunedin, amongst 

 forest, in February and March ; eight specimens. 



