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slight patchy pale-ochreous suffusion; markings fuscous; a 

 rather large basal patch, angled outwards below middle; two 

 or three dots on dorsum ; a short outwardly-oblique fascia 

 from J costa, ending abruptly before mid-disc; a large blotch 

 on tornus ; a streak along costa from middle to apex, some- 

 times connected with apex of fascia ; a triangular spot on 

 middle of termen, its apex sometimes connected with tornal 

 blotch; cilia grey, apices whitish. Hindwings grey; cilia 

 whitish, with a grey sub-basal line. 



Ground-colour whiter than in the preceding species, the 

 markings much more distinct, with a triangular spot on 

 termen, and without costal fold. 



Hab. — New South Wales: Mount Kosciusko (5,000-6,000 

 ft.), in March; four specimens. 



ToRTRIX HAEMATODES, 11. sp. (ou/xgitcoS^s, blood-stailiecl) . 



d , 9 ? 15-19 mm. Plead and thorax fuscous. Palpi 2 : 

 fuscous. Antennae fuscous: ciliations in male 1. Abdomen 

 grey. Legs fuscous ; posterior pair grey- whitish. Fore wings not 

 dilated, costa gently arched, straight beyond middle, apex 

 rounded-rectangular, termen nearly straight, slightly oblique ; 

 in male without costal fold; fuscous, sometimes dotted with 

 dark-fuscous, usually more or less reticulated with bright- 

 ferruginous; cilia fuscous. Hindwings and cilia pale-grey. 



Hab.— New South Wales: Mount Kosciusko (5,000-6,000 

 ft.), in February and March; nine specimens. Among these 

 is only one female, which is distinctly smaller than those of 

 the other sex. 



Tortrix balioptera, n. sp. (/?aAi07rrepo5, with speckled wings). 



$ , 15 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-brown. Palpi 3; 

 ochreous-brown. Antennae ochreous-brown; ciliations in male 

 §. Abdomen grey, tuft ochreous-whitish. Legs ochreous- 

 whitish. Forewings somewhat dilated, costa strongly arched 

 near base, thence straight, apex rounded-rectangular, termen 

 scarcely oblique, rounded beneath; in male without costal 

 fold : whitish, closely strigulated with pale ochreous-brown : a 

 basal patch and median fascia faintly indicated; the latter 

 strongly oblique from costa before middle to tornus; cilia 

 whitish. Hindwing grey-whitish, faintly strigulated with 

 grey; cilia whitish. 



This species belongs to the sobriana group. 



Hab. — Queensland: Brisbane, in September; Warwick, 

 in October. Two specimens. 



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