472 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



ochreous, barred with dark fuscous. Hindwings pale grey, 

 faintly spotted -with darker ; cilia whitish with two grey lines. 



This handsome and distinctly coloured species differs much in 

 the sexes, the female being more variegated and more darkly 

 marked. The male makes some approximation to D. luciplagana, 

 but the white costal patch is triangular instead of semi-oval, its 

 anterior dark margin is produced as an oblique fascia towards 

 anal angle, and the forewings are more triangular. 



Tolerably common in dry bush above the Bulli Pass (2,000 

 feet), and at Blackheath in the Blue Mountains (3,600 feet), in 

 October and November ; it also occurs near Melbourne. 



3. Dich. disputana, Walk. 



fSciaphila disputana, "Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat. 349 ; rect. disputatanaj. 



£ . 4£"-6J". Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen light ochreous-grey. Legs whitish, anterior tibiae and 

 tarsi dark fuscous, middle tarsi fuscous-grey towards base of 

 joints. Forewings elongate, moderate, costa moderately arched, 

 hindmargin hardly sinuate ; light reddish-fuscous, becoming 

 white towards costa ; basal patch dark reddish-fuscous mixed 

 with blackish, its posterior edge somewhat sinuate, running from 

 one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin ; central fascia 

 moderately broad, oblique, dark reddish-fuscous margined with 

 blackish, running from slightly before middle of costa to inner 

 margin before anal angle, its anterior edge somewhat sinuate, 

 posterior edge emitting a sharp tooth below middle obliquely 

 upwards, generally connected with the succeeding fascia ; a dark 

 reddish-fuscous blackish-margined fascia from costa at two-thirds 

 to hindmargin hardly above anal angle, broad on costa and 

 attenuated gradually throughout, containing two small whitish 

 spots on costa ; hindmargin beneath apex mixed with dark 

 fuscous : cilia ochreous-f uscous, tinged with reddish at base, and 

 with a broad dark fuscous line, darkest at apex. Hindwings 



