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acute, t-ermen bowed, oblique, slightly crenulate ; whitisli 

 with fuscous suffusion and markings, a conspicuous dark- 

 fuscous oblique bar from dorsum near base to middle of disc, 

 sometimes forming a complete fascia to ^ costa ; two or three 

 fine, incomplete, transverse lines between this and costa ; a 

 nearly straight band of three fine fuscous lines from mid-costa 

 to dorsum at ^; a dark-fuscous, median, subcostal, discal dot; 

 a suffused band, towards costa resolvable into three lines, 

 from f costa to | dorsum, outwardly curved with slight obtuse 

 prominences above and below middle ; a streak from apex to 

 upper prominence on j)ostmedian line, slightly downwardly 

 curved; between this, and costa is a paler apical area; sub- 

 terminal whitish, very ill-defined; a terminal line; cilia grey- 

 whitish with a few darker points. Hindwings with termen 

 very little rounded, dentate; whitish-grey, with fine, fuscous, 

 transverse lines from dorsum, becoming indistinct before 

 costa; from.' ^, middle, an outwardly-curved, stronger line 

 from |, a fine line following close on this, and a double 

 subterminal line; a fuscous terminal line; cilia whitish-grey. 



New South Wales: Sydney (Manly), in October; Jervis 

 Bay, in September; two specimens. There is a third female 

 example from the latter locality in Coll. Goldfinch, taken in 

 November. Type in Coll. Lye 11. 



Gen. CiDARiA, Treit., Eur. Schmet., vi., 2, p. 140. 



Mr. L. B. Prout informs me that the type is the Euro- 

 pean C. fulvata, Forst., and that Hydriomena^ Hb., is a 

 synonym of later publication. This large European genus is 

 but poorly represented in Australia, and in New Zealand 

 there is no endemic species, the only representative there 

 being suhochraria, Dbld. Six Australian species are known; 

 of these suhochraria, ajiotoina, iincinata, and microcyma are 

 probably derived through the Antarctic; scythrojja and lasio- 

 placa are not nearly allied specifically to the first four, and 

 entered Australia from the north. The groove on hindwing 

 of male of scythro'pa I consider a character of specific value 

 only. Heterochasta^ Meyr., and Polyclysta, Gn., are deriva- 

 tions of this second section of the genus. 



Larentia petrodes, Turn. 

 Queensland : Warwick. Victoria : Gisborne. 



Larentia xerodes, Meyr. 



I have examined what I believe to be an example of 

 Xantkorhoe xerodes, Meyr., and refer it to this genus. 



