LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 
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Male. Cinereous, speckled with brown. Head with a short thick 
tuft. Palpi porrect, as long as the breadth of the head ; covered to 
the tips with a pale thick and very long fringe. Antennae minutely 
pubescent. Fore wings hardly acute; a silvery whitish patch near 
the base, transversely streaked with pale brown and including a 
brown spot; a ferruginous costal patch intersected by a curved 
silvery whitish band, which extends obliquely towards the exterior 
border, and is there bent to the interior angle; a few small trans- 
verse black streaks; costa slightly convex ; exterior border almost 
straight, slightly oblique. Hind wings yellowish; fringe silvery 
cinereous. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 
a. Sydney. From Mr. Diggles’ collection. 
66. SciAPHTLA COMPTANA. 
Mas. Chalybcea ; abdomen ceneum ; alee anticce ferrugineo - 
nigroque strigatce , lituris duabus basalibus , fasciis ditabus, 
punctis duobus costulibus exterioribus lineaque submarginali 
albis ; posticce cupreee, basi tenece. 
Male. Chalybeous. Palpi porrect, shorter than the breadth of 
the head, with a very short fringe; third joint conical, minute. 
Antennae very minutely setulose. Abdomen aeneous, extending 
very little beyond the fore wings. Tarsi with whitish hands. Fore 
wings rectangular at the lips, with transverse ferruginous and black 
streaks, and with two white bands; two small white marks near the 
base of the costa; two white costal points between the second band 
and a white submarginal line ; costa straight ; exterior border very 
slightly curved, hardly oblique. Hind wings cupreous, aeneous 
towards the base. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 
8 lines. 
a. Sydney. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 
New Zealand. 
67. SciAPHILA FLEXIVITTANA. 
Mas. Nigro-einerea ; caput et thorax anticus ferruginea ; abdo- 
men cinereum ; alee anticce vix acutee , lituris indistinctis 
vittaque postica lata ; jlexa interrupta nigro submarginata 
ferrugineis, puncto discali albido ; posticce cinerece , fusco 
subtessellatce. 
Male. Blackish cinereous, paler beneath. Head, palpi and 
fore border of the thorax ferruginous. Palpi porrect, stout, shorter 
