684 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



triangular patch on upper half of hindmargin, darkest towards 

 apex ; a row of three or four black linear dots near hindmargin 

 above anal angle, preceded and followed by a faint leaden-metallic 

 line : cilia grey, irregularly mixed with blackish, and irrorated 

 with whitish points. Hindwings thinly scaled, grey, darker at 

 apex; cilia grey-whitish, with a grey line near base ; veins 3 and 

 4 long-stalked. 



The largest species of the genus, with very elongate f orewings ; 

 variable, but generally very uniform in colouring, with very few 

 darker markings, of various character in different specimens. 



Larva cylindrical, with scattered hairs ; rather pale yellowish- 

 green, above rather darker dull green, dorsal spots faintly whitish ; 

 head amber, second segment rather lighter amber ; anal segment 

 with slight indications of a black plate. Feeds between joined 

 leaves of Eucalyptus sp. — , in June. 



A common species, occurring amongst Eucalyptus scrub round 

 Sydney and Parramatta, at Bulli, Blackheath on the Blue 

 Mountains, and Newcastle, in New South Wales ; at Melbourne, 

 and near Duaringa, Queensland ; from July to October, and from 

 January to March. 



4. Streps, seditiosana, n. sp. 



£ ? . 4f"-5i". Head, palpi, and thorax grey, densely irrorated 

 with whitish ; palpi not tufted. Antennae dark fuscous, in male 

 thickened and notched at one-fifth from basal joint. Abdomen 

 grey. Legs grey-whitish, anterior and middle tibia? and all tarsi 

 suffusedly ringed with dark fuscous. Forewings narrow, costa 

 slightly arched, hindmargin somewhat sinuate, oblique; dull 

 whitish, costal half suffused with dark grey (in female slightly 

 ochreous-tinged) except along basal third of costa and towards 

 apex ; costa shortly strigulated with dark fuscous ; a dark fuscous 

 strongly marked central streak from base to middle, posteriorly 

 abruptly attenuated and somewhat bent upwards, posterior edge 



