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costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin obliquely rounded ; light 

 ochreous-brownish, with a few irregularly-scattered white scales, veins 

 more or less suffused with dark fuscous ; first Hue slender, whitish, pos- 

 teriorly obscurely dark-margined, somewhat curved, not oblique ; orbicular 

 and claviform obsolete ; reniform 8-shaped, indistinct, somewhat whitish, 

 obscurely dark-margined ; second line slender, whitish, obscurely dark- 

 margined, sinuations very slight; subterminal very indistinct, cloudy, 

 whitish ; a row of cloudy dark fuscous dots before hindmargin : cilia 

 ochreous-wlhtish, with' two dark grey lines. Hindwings lj, very pale 

 whitish-grey ; postmedian line and hindmargin hardly darker ; cilia 

 whitish, with a grey line. 



An indistinct-looking species, yet hardly to be confused with any other. 



Blackheath (3,500 feet), New South Wa]es ; Mount Macedon and Fern- 

 shaw, Victoria ; Deloraine and Mount Wellington (to 3,100 feet), Tasmania ; 

 amongst forest, from November to February, tolerably common. 

 49. Scoj). manganeutis, n. sp. 



Male. — 17-18 mm. Head and thorax white, mixed with grey and 

 irrorated with black. Palpi 2|, dark fuscous, mixed with white, basal joint 

 white. Antennas grey, sharply serrate, ciliations 1. Abdomen pale grey. 

 Legs whitish, tibise and tarsi banded with black. Forewings elongate, 

 somewhat triangular, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin rather 

 strongly oblique, slightly indented above middle, rounded beneath ; light 

 grey, irregularly mixed with white and irrorated with black ; first line 

 strong, distinct, white, rather curved, moderately indented in middle and 

 again above inner margin, posteriorly suffusedly dark-margined ; orbicular 

 dot-like, faint, whitish, claviform small, cloudy, blackish, both obscured by 

 suffusion ; reniform 8-shaped, whitish, dark-margined, tolerably distinct ; 

 second line whitish, tolerably distinct, dark-margined ; subterminal cloudy, 

 whitish, dentate, interrupted above middle, apex of lower portion confluent 

 with second line ; a hindmarginal row of obscure whitish dots : cilia whitish, 

 basal third barred with dark fuscous, with a posterior grey line. Hind- 

 wings 1-|, whitish-grey ; postmedian line faintly indicated, hindmargin 

 narrowly grey ; cilia whitish, with an interrupted grey line. 



Characterized by the relatively small size, elongate forewings, strong 

 white dentate first line, and the peculiarly serrate and strongly ciliated 

 antennae. 



Otira Gorge, 1,600 to 2,600 feet, in January ; two specimens. 

 50. Scop, crypsiiwa, n. sp. 



Male. — 23-24 mm. Head white. Palpi 2-§-, dark fuscous, apex of 

 maxillary and basal joint of labial white. Antennas grey ; ciliations -J. 

 Thorax fuscous-grey irrorated with whitish, with a white anterior spot. 



