BY OSWALD B. LOWER. 95 



margin, posterior edge oblique, from costa in middle to inner margin 

 beyond i, with a slight indentation just above inner margin, the 

 colour of fascia more pronounced on lower ^, the upper portion 

 inclined to shade into groundcolour; a moderate, obscurely 

 indicated fuscous patch beneath apex, irregularly edged by a fine 

 dentate line, anterior edge curved so as to meet posterior line of 

 fascia; two or three short, curved black lines around apex : cilia 

 dark fuscous, mixed with ferruginous, and with a few whitish 

 scales. Hind wings slightly sinuate beneath apex; light fuscous, 

 becoming darker around hindmargin ; cilia light fuscous, tips 

 darker, and w-ith a well-defined basal line. 



Blackwood, South Australia; three specimens dislodged from 

 Banksia sp., in September. 



GRAPH0LITHID5;. 



Laspeyresia lomacula, n.sp. 



^9. 9-12 mm. Head and antennae fuscous- whitish. Palpi 

 whitish, terminal joint short, fuscous. Thorax dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen fuscous. Legs grey-whitish; anterior and middle tibise 

 and tarsi blackish, ringed with whitish. Forewings moderate, 

 rather dilated, costa hardly arched, hindmargin hardly oblique, 

 sinuate beneath apex; dark fuscous mixed with whitish; numerous 

 very oblique black lines on costa, the majority reaching nearly 

 half across wing, separated on costa by dull interspaces of dull 

 metallic whitish; numerous outwardly oblique lines from inner 

 margin, those on posterior half meeting costal lines; a quadrate 

 blotch of white on inner margin, often obsolete, anterior edge 

 from beyond J, very outwardly oblique, reaching more than ^ 

 across wing, posterior edge irregular, obscure, from about #; three 

 outwardly oblique, dull leaden-metallic finely black-edged streaks, 

 fii'st from before § of costa to anal angle; second parallel, from 

 costa just beyond to middle of hindmargin, thence continued 

 along hindmargin to anal angle; third very short, just before apex; 

 between the first and second is a small leaden-metallic patch 

 containing three sharply defined black streaks, upper the largest. 



