676 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



Antennae dark fuscous. Thorax white, irrorated with grey, 

 anterior margin and one or two spots on back blackish. Abdomen 

 ochreous-grey, anal tuft of male ochreous. Legs whitish, anterior 

 and middle tibiae and tarsi banded with dark fuscous. Forewings 

 very narrow, costa almost straight, hindmargin sinuate below 

 apex, slightly oblique ; white, very finely irrorated with grey 

 scales, tending to form very fine strigulae, especially along costa, 

 where they cause a narrow greyish suffusion ; costa rather 

 obliquely and coarsely strigulated with blackish, and inner 

 margin also generally with a few short blackish strigulae ; a small 

 grey blackish-margined somewhat triangular spot on inner margin 

 close to base, reaching two-thirds across wing ; a rather large sub- 

 quadrate erect dark grey blotch, mixed with blackish, on inner 

 margin at one-third, reaching half across wing, rather ill-defined 

 anteriorly ; a small triangular dark grey spot on inner margin 

 about three-fourths, reaching one-third across wing ; a small 

 blackish apical spot, slenderly produced along hindmargin nearly 

 to anal angle : cilia dark fuscous with a blackish basal line, 

 beneath anal angle whitish and becoming grey posteriorly. Hind- 

 wings thinly scaled, grey, somewhat darker at apex ; cilia grey- 

 whitish, with an indistinct grey line near base. 



Distinctly characterised by the white forewings, dark grey 

 dorsal spots, and ochreous-brown head. 



Rather common at rest on certain fences near Sydney, and at 

 Parramatta, and also beaten from a species of Melaleuca ; it occurs 

 from September to November, and in January. 



2. Bathr. ruficomana, n. sp. 



d ? . 4£"-5f". Head reddish-ochreous on crown and face, 

 behind light ashy-grey. Palpi deep reddish-ochreous. Antennae 

 grey. Thorax grey, more or less suffused with dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen ochreous-grey, in male suffused with yellowish-ochre- 

 ous. Legs grey-whitish, anterior and middle tibiae and all tarsi 

 suffusedly banded with dark fuscous. Forewings very narrow, 



