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or blackish streak, variable iu intensity, from angle of first line to position 

 of reniform, interrupted in middle except on lower margin by an oblique 

 oblong pale or whitish spot ; claviform small, linear, blackish, often indis- 

 tinct ; second line whitish, generally distinct, interrupting veins which are 

 more or less distinctly lined with blackish posteriorly, rectilinear, sharply 

 indented below costa and sharply angulated above middle ; subterminal line 

 cloudy, whitish, suffused into hindmargin, interrupted above middle ; a 

 hindmarginal row of blackish dots : cilia grey-whitish, with two dark fus- 

 cous lines. Hindwings pale ochreous-grey, with a narrow hindmarginal 

 dark grey suffusion, broader at apex ; cilia grey- whitish, with a dark grey 

 line. 



Variable both in colour and intensity of marking ; imitating the bark on 

 which it sits. 



Blackheath (3,500 feet), New South Wales ; Mount Macedon, Victoria ; 

 Mount Gambier, South Australia ; locally very abundant on trunks of 

 fibrous-barked species of Eucalyptus, in November and December, taking 

 flight with great activity when approached. It is exceedingly probable that 

 the larva feeds in the bark of these trees. 



4. Xekoscopa, Meyr. 



Forehead vertical. Ocelli present. Tongue well-developed. Antenna} 

 moderate, § of forewiugs, in male filiform, evenly ciliated (i-1). Labial 

 palpi rather long or long, straight, porrected, second joint beneath with 

 long dense projecting scales, terminal joint moderate, exposed or resting in 

 scales of second. Maxillary palpi rather long, triangularly dilated. Pos- 

 terior tibia? with outer spurs half inner. Abdomen moderate. Forewings 

 with vein 11 rather oblique. Hindwings from J-f broader than fore- 

 wings ; 3 remote from 4, 4 and 5 stalked or from a point ; lower median 

 naked ; • discal area above it furnished with long hairs, not continued 

 beyond transverse vein (except in X. philonephes); internal area loosely 

 haired. 



Distinguished from Scoparia only by the long hairs of the discal area ; 

 the genus is undoubtedly natural, and its separation materially assists the 

 study of the group. The species resemble those of the second group of 

 Scoparia, and almost all of large size and decidedly crambideous facies. 

 The larvae are yet unknown, but probably of similar habits. 



The genus is especially characteristic of New Zealand, whence fifteen 

 species are described ; there is one Tasmanian species, and also one Aus- 

 tralian, if the latter is correctly separated from Tetraprosopus. None 

 are yet known elsewhere, but perhaps only because they have not been 

 recognized, 



