958 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA 



suffused with grey. Abdomen ferruginous, somewhat mixed with 

 grey, segmental margins whitish-ochreous, bometimes greyish- 

 tinged, basal segment dark grey. Legs dark grey, posterior tibias 

 whitish-ochreous. Forewings very elongate, rather narrow, costa 

 gently arched, apex acute, hindmargin faintly sinuate, very oblique; 

 white, dorsal half more or less irrorated or suffused with grey ; 

 an ill-defined grey streak along costa from near base to f, 

 extremities attenuated ; a black dot beneath costa near base ; a 

 black dot in disc at J, a second on fold nearly beneath first, a third 

 slightly beyond and above middle, and three more or less confluent 

 (two lower sometimes obsolete) placed in a short curved inwardly 

 oblique line in disc at f ; a cloudy grey streak from costa before 

 apex to disc at f, more or less confused with some grey scales on 

 hindmargin : cilia pale grey. Hind wings rather dark grey ; cilia 

 pale grey. 



Perth, West Australia ; in November, locally common in a 

 small piece of sandy scrub. 



567. (86c.) EaJ. callimeris, n. sp. 



^^. 19-21 mm. Head light ochreous-yellow or whitish-ochreous. 

 Palpi dark grey, upper side white. Antennae dark grey, ciliations 

 in (J 1. Thorax dark grey. Abdomen ferruginous mixed with grey, 

 segmental margins light ochreous-yellowish, basal segment dark 

 grey. Legs dark grey, posterior pair light ochreous-yellowish. Foi'e- 

 wings very elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex toler- 

 ably acute, hindmargin faintly sinuate, very oblique ; dark grey; disc 

 with a few whitish scales, in ^ suffusedly irrorated with white ; six 

 round blackish-fuscous dots, first in disc at ^, second on fold 

 •directly beneath first, third slightly beyond and above middle, 

 other three more or less confluent, placed in a short curved 

 inwardly oblique line in disc at | ; a cloudy whitish-ochreous or 

 ochreous-white semicircular spot on costa at |, touching fourth 

 discal dot, and a very ill-defined subtriangular oclireous-whitish 

 spot on anal angle, touching sixth dot ; a very obscurely indicated 

 darker outwards-curved line from beyond costal spot to anal angle, 



