648 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO -LEPIDOPTERA, 



The facies of this genus is very singular, and it seems rather 

 uncertain to what group it is most allied, but it agrees in its 

 main characters with Penthina, differing widely, however, in 

 the peculiar triple crest of the thorax, and the conspicuously 

 falcate apex of forewings. 



The only species is from New Zealand, and is of large size. 



1. Epalx. axenana, n. sp. 



(J. 12V'. Head ochreous-white, spotted with light ochreous 

 irrorated with dark fuscous. Palpi light ochreous irrorated 

 with fuscous. Antennae whitish-ochreoiis, slenderly annulated 

 with dark fuscous. Thorax light greyish-ochreous mixed with 

 fuscous, with two black transverse lines towards anterior margin, 

 side-tufts whitish-ochreous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs 

 pale ochreous, anterior and middle tibiae and all tarsi banded 

 with dark fuscous, posterior tibiae ochreous-whitish. Forewings 

 elongate, oblong, apex falcate ; whitish-ochreous, irregularly 

 mixed and clouded with brownish-ochreous, extreme costal edge 

 white, obscurely spotted beneath with fuscous ; the veins 

 posteriorly marked with dark fuscous ; outer edge of basal patch 

 represented by a blackish-fuscous spot on costa at one-fifth, 

 contracted in middle, and a blackish-fuscous cloudy spot, some- 

 what outwardly oblique, on inner margin before middle, con- 

 nected together by a narrow ill-defined, twice strongly angulated, 

 ochreous-f uscous streak ; a narrow reddish-fuscous streak starting 

 from costa at two-fifths, very oblique, extending to disc above 

 anal angle a little below middle, thence bent rather obliquely 

 inwards and ending just before reaching anal angle, most distinct 

 towards extremities ; a longitudinal elongate dark ochreous-grey- 

 fuscous spot in middle of disc, its upper edge emitting a sharp 

 inwardly oblique tooth in middle, its posterior extremity touching 

 the oblique transverse streak ; a dark reddish-fuscous transverso 

 spot on inner margin slightly beyond middle, its apex almost 

 suffused into the central spot ; a flattened triangular dark reddish- 



