''Enchocrates glaucopis'' is a

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in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1883. It is found in

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, where it has been recorded from the south-east of the country. The

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is 15–22 mm. The forewings are fuscous grey, the margins narrowly dark fuscous and with the costal edge, hindmarginal edge, and all veins marked by bright carmine lines. There is a very ill-defined straight oblique cloudy dark grey transverse line from the middle of the costa to the inner margin at two-thirds. There is also a very ill-defined roundish pale yellow spot on middle of the inner margin, anteriorly or wholly carmine tinged, margined anteriorly by the transverse dark grey line. There is a round suffused blackish-grey spot on the inner margin at four-fifths, in some specimens very conspicuous, in others absent. There is also an indistinct dark fuscous dot in the disc at two-thirds. The hindwings are grey whitish in males and grey, but paler towards the base in females.''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales''. 7 (4): 443.

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Moths described in 1883 Enchocrates Taxa named by Edward Meyrick {{Depressariinae-stub