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Bathrotoma melanographa, n. sp. 

 (lxe\avoypa(j>o<;, inscribed with black). 



$ , 16 mm. Head whitish- grey. Palpi 3; dark-fuscous, 

 upper edge and terminal joint whitish-grey. Antennae grey : 

 in male slightly serrate, thickened and notched at A-, minutely 

 ciliated. Thorax whitish-grey, with a pair of dark-fuscous 

 ■dots near posterior angle, bases of patagia brown. Abdomen 

 whitish-grey. Legs fuscous; tarsi annulated with whitish, 

 middle femora, middle and posterior tibiae grey-whitish. 

 Forewings narrow-elongate, costa gently arched, apex 

 rounded-rectangular, termen sinuate, slightly oblique ; in 

 male with a broad costal fold extending to middle; whitish, 

 mixed with fuscous-grey, middle of disc suffused with 

 brownish; a blackish median streak from 1 to middle, bifur- 

 cated at anterior end ; this is followed by a blackish spot, 

 and this again by an oblique blackish streak towards, but not 

 reaching, apex ; all these markings are suffusedly edged with 

 brownish ; a narrow, interrupted terminal fascia of alternate 

 -dark-fuscous and whitish striae; cilia grey, with fine whitish 

 striae, bases whitish interrupted by dark-fuscous, with a 

 longer bar at ^ from apex. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



FT ah. — New South Wales: Hornsby, near Sydney, in 

 June; one specimen received from R. J. Tillyard. 



Acroclita chloreis, ii. sp. (xAwp^.s, greenish). 



9 , 10 mm. Head pale-greenish, side tufts partly 

 brownish-tinged. Palpi 2| ; fuscous, internal surface whitish. 

 Antennae fuscous. Thorax greenish; patagia whitish, bases 

 brownish-tinged. Abdomen grey. Legs whitish ; tarsi grey, 

 with whitish annulations. Forewings narrow, not dilated, 

 costa moderately arched to middle, thence straight, apex 

 rectangular, termen slightly excavated beneath apex, thence 

 obliquely rounded ; greenish ; markings brownish, edged and 

 mixed with dark-fuscous ; three transverse lines from basal 

 part of ccsta as far as fold; a broad band from -^ dorsum, 

 somewhat outwardly oblique, ending in a rounded extremity 

 above middle of disc ; a larger blotch with verv irregular 

 outline on dorsum from | to tornus, reaching more than half 

 across disc ; a spot on midcosta and another slightly larger 

 a little beyond this ; a small tuft of raised scales before 

 middle of disc, between two dorsal blotches; an elongate 

 subapical spot narrowly connected with a dark-fuscous dot 

 at apex; a fine fuscous terminal line; cilia grey-whitish, with 

 an obscure fuscous median line, on apex fuscous. Hindwings 

 and cilia pale grey. 



