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CATALOGUE OF 



63. SCIAPHILA SIDNEYANA. 



Mas. Cinerea ; alas anticce subargentece, acutce, strigulis plurimis 

 transversis nigricantibus ex parte obsoletis, macula discali 

 interiore nigricante, fascia fusca nigro marginata antice 

 abbreviata, linea marginali nigricante interrupta. 



Male. Cinereous. Palpi porrect, much shorter than the 

 breadth of the head; third joint extremely short. Antennae setose. 

 Fore wings acute, slightly silvery, with many but partly obsolete 

 minute transverse blackish streaks, with a blackish spot in the disk 

 near the base, and with a brown black-bordered baud, which is 

 abbreviated in front, where its fore border is excavated; marginal 

 line blackish, interrupted; costa slightly convex ; exterior border 

 straight, moderately oblique. Length of the body 3J ? lines; of the 

 wings 8 lines. 



a. Sydney. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



64. SCIAPHILA INCONCISANA. 



Mas. Cinerea ; palpi pilosi, capitis latitudine breviores, articulo 

 So parvo ; alee anticce apice rectangxdaUe , fusco nigroque sub- 

 conspersce, fasciis duabus fuscis obliquis diffasis indeter- 

 minatis, linea discali nigra. 



Male. Cinereous. Palpi porrect, pilose, shorter than the 

 breadth of the head ; third joint conical, not more than one- fourth 

 of the length of the second. Antenna? minutely setulose. Abdo- 

 men extending a little beyond the hind wings. Fore wings 

 rectangular at the tips, slightly speckled with brown and black; 

 two irregular oblique diffuse brown bands ; a black line extending 

 from the middle of the interior disk to the exterior border ; costa 

 and exterior border hardly convex, the former with a row of small 

 brown dots. Length of the body 5J- lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. Australia. From Mr. Biggies' collection. 



65. SCIAPHILA PEOJECTANA. 



Mas. Cinerea, fusco conspersa ; palpi pallidi, longissime fim- 

 briate ; alee anticce plaga basuli argenteo-albida fuscescente 

 strigata maculamque fuscam includente, fascia snbmarginali 

 jlexa argenteo-albida, plaga costali ferruginea, strigulis non~ 

 nullis nigris ; posticce flavescentes. 



