678 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



on each side, outer edge indented below middle, and connected 

 with costa at one-fourth by an irregular inwardly oblique blackish 

 line ; between this blotch and base the inner margin is narrowly 

 blackish ; an elongate very narrowly semi-ovate blackish-fuscous 

 spot along inner margin from beyond middle to beyond three- 

 fourths, posteriorly whitish-margined ; a roundish patch on anal 

 angle is indistinctly indicated by a slender interrupted blackish 

 boundary line, and contains a row of four or five ill-defined linear 

 blackish dots ; a small ferruginous apical spot ; a row of linear 

 black dots along hindmargin : cilia ocbreous-fuscous, with a 

 blackish spot above apex, and three broadly suffused blackish 

 bars below apex, with a whitish line along base, towards anal 

 angle wholly grey mixed with whitish. Hindwings dark grey, 

 very thinly scaled and almost transparent towards base ; cilia 

 whitish, with an indistinct grey line near base. 



Markings placed much as in B. constrictana, but groundcolour 

 tinged with ochreous, no dorsal spot close to base, spot at one- 

 third brown above, spot at three-fourths flattened, elongate, 

 semi-ovate, and head not brown. 



Two specimens taken at rest on fences near Sydney and 

 Parramatta, in October. 



16. Strepsiceros, n. g. 



Thorax smooth. Antennas in male ciliated, with an excavated 

 notch at about one-fifth from base. Palpi moderate, porrected, 

 second joint roughly haired, often with a more or less dense tuft 

 beneath towards apex, terminal joint more or less concealed. 

 Posterior tibise fringed with hairs above. Forewings elongate, 

 narrow, costa in male with a strong basal fold, gently arched, 

 apex generally somewhat produced, hindmargin more or less 

 sinuate. Hindwings elongate-trapezoidal, broader than forewings 

 apex somewhat produced. Forewings with veins 7 and 8 

 separate, 7 running to hindmargin, secondary cell distinct. Hind- 



