98 NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



GeLECHIA COSMODES, 11. sp. 



i^<^. 8-16 mm. Head, thorax, anteniiEe and abdomen blackish- 

 fuscous; anteniiJB | of wing, irregularly aiinulated with white, 

 abdomen sometimes somewhat shining, face whitish Palpi 

 blackish, second joint internally whitish and somewhat mixed 

 with whitish externally in middle; terminal joint with three 

 equidistant whitish rings. Legs dark fuscous, with whitish tarsal 

 rings; posterior pair blackish, with tibite and tarsi irregularly 

 ringed with whitish. Forewings as in G. perdita, but somewhat 

 narrower ; reddish-ferruginous, with black and golden-metallic 

 markings ; a small black basal patch, outer edge moderately 

 straight, indented in middle, where there are a few golden-metallic 

 scales; a narrow outwardly oblique golden-metallic fascia, from 

 costa at ^ to beyond inner margin at ^-, sometimes hardly reach- 

 ing inner margin ; an irregular black quadrate spot on costa 

 immediately beyond, reaching more than half across wing ; a 

 second, similar to first, golden-metallic fascia, not so oblique as 

 first, immediately beyond quadrate spot, sometimes broken, from 

 middle of costa to middle of inner margin; a small roundish 

 ochreous-white spot on costa at f, lower half reddish-tinged, 

 reaching nearly half across wing; a golden-metallic patch of scales 

 beneath, but slightly anterior; a blackish elongate spot on costa 

 between second fascia and whitish spot ; hindmarginal area 

 beyond black : cilia blackish, becoming greyish on terminal half 

 on middle of hind margin. Hindwings with termen sinuate 

 beneath apex, apex somewhat produced ; pale fuscous ; cilia 

 greyish-fuscous. 



Broken Hill, N.S.W.; taken occasionally at light, from Sep- 

 tember to November. 



A very elegant little species, not approaching any other Aus- 

 tralian species known to me. 



Gelechia lithina, n.sp. 



^2- ^'12 mm. Head, palpi, antennfe and thorax dark fuscous, 

 second joint of palpi moderately smooth, anteiinse at base beneath 



