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whitish with an interrupted fuscous sub-basal line. Hindwings with 

 ^pex pointed, termen sinuate; white; a transverse oval discal spot 

 before middle, and a moderate terminal band; fuscous; cilia white, 

 bases fuscous. 



Near microta, Meyr., and flavizonalis, Hmps. ; distinguished from 

 the first by the white thorax and abdomen; from the second by the 

 fuscous colouring without yellowish tinge, differently shaped posterior 

 spot, and terminal band on hindwings. 



N.Q., Cooktown in April; Cairns in October; Q., Coolangatta (and 

 »Cudgen, N.S.W.), in January and May; seven specimens. 



Pyrausta hyalistis. 



Pyrausta hyalistis, Low., P.L.S., N.S.W., 1901, p. 669. 

 Pyrausta diplosticta, Turn., Tr. R.S.S., S.A., 1908, p. 100. 



T., Melbourne, Sale, Lome, Upper Macedon, near Glsborne. 



ECLIPSIODES SEMIGILVA, U. sp. 



Semigilvus, half-yellowish. 



S" 22 mm. Head pale-ochreous mixed with fuscous. Palpi 24; 

 rdark-fuscous; base and internal surface, except apex, whttish. An- 

 tennae grey annulated with dark-fuscous, in J' slightly dentate with 

 very short ciliations ({). Thorax whitish, mixed with dark- fuscous ; 

 a posterior spot whitish. Abdomen pale-ochreous. Legs fuscous; tibiae 

 and tarsi annulated with whitish; posterior pair, pale-ochreous, with 

 fuscous annulations on tarsi. Forewings moderately narrow, costa 

 slightly arched, apex tolerably pointed, termen nearly straight, mode- 

 rately oblique; white, with fairly uniform dark-fuscous irroration; 

 markings dark-fuscous; a suffused basal patch; a line from ^ costa 

 to 1 dorsum; orbicular minutely outlined; reniform 8-shaped, out- 

 lined in fuscous, connected by a line with § dorsum, and by a large 

 suffused spot with tornus; a finely dentate line from f costa to tornal 

 spot; a subapical costal spot; cilia whitish mixed with grey, bases 

 barred with dark-fuscous, Hindwings with termen slightly sinuate; 

 pale-ochreous; a rather narrow fuscous terminal band not reaching 

 -tcrnus; cilia whitish, bases pale fuscous. 



Type in Coll. Lyell. 



v., Daytrap, in October; one specimen. 



Scoparia ischnopteka, n. sp. 



cT 20 mm. Head grey. Palpi 4; fuscous; extreme base white. 

 Antennae fuscous. Thorax fuscous-grey; pectus white. Abdomen pale- 

 grey; base of dorsum ochreous-tinged. Legs grey. Forewings very 

 narrow, slightly dilated posteriorly, apex round-pointed, termen bowed, 

 oblique; dark-grey, inclining to fuscous; a blackish streak from base 

 to middle along fold; a similar streak in cell from middle to f; some 

 blackish subapical and subtornal suffusion; cilia whitish with two 

 jgrey lines, basal line darker. Hindwings three times as broad as fore- 



