486 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA 



£ . 12". Head, palpi, and antennae whitish-ochreous. Thorax 

 whitish-ochreous, shoulders brownish, on back mixed with dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen greyish-ochreous. Legs whitish-ochreous, 

 anterior and middle pair suffused above with dark fuscous, 

 posterior tarsi dark fuscous at base of joints. Forewings broad, 

 dilated, costa much rounded, slightly indented at apex of fold, 

 which is large, hindmargin hardly at all sinuate, strongly bowed 

 outwards below middle ; grey-whitish, suffused towards margins 

 with pale grey-fuscous, and irrorated with fine transverse dark 

 fuscous strigulre ; costa and inner margin strigulated with dark 

 fuscous ; fold dark greyish-brown, with long pale ochreous hairs ; 

 a slender dark fuscous black-margined rather oblique streak from 

 inner margin at one-fifth, reaching half across wing ; between 

 this streak and base the groundcolour is clear pale ochreous, 

 emitting a narrow suffused pale ochreous streak beneath the 

 costal fold to its extremity ; a dark fuscous fascia-like spot on 

 middle of costa, rather oblique, reaching half across wing, con- 

 nected by a slender dark fuscous blackish-margined line with a 

 narrow sharply triangular dark fuscous sj>ot on middle of inner 

 margin ; the ground-colour between the pale ochreous basal patch 

 and a straight line from middle of costa to anal angle suffused 

 with greyish-fuscous mixed with ochreous, most deeply along 

 inner margin ; three small dark fuscous spots on costa between 

 middle and apex, irregularly connected with two sinuate dark 

 fuscous blackish-margined partially interrupted transverse streaks 

 directed towards anal angle, but confluent and obsolete below 

 middle ; a suffused ochreous spot beneath costa at three-fourths ; 

 a narrow fuscous black-margined streak along hindmargin : cilia 

 grey-whitish mixed with ochreous, with two fuscous-grey lines, 

 and indistinctly barred with dark grey. Hindwings light fuscous- 

 grey strigulated with darker ; cilia whitish-grey with two dark 

 grey lines. 



A large and rather elegant species, differing from all other 

 Australian species known to mo in the strongly -bowed hindmargin 



