690 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO -LEPIDOPTERA, 



the strigula? towards apex crossing the white streak ; some 

 irregularly placed blackish scales beneath the white streak 

 posteriorly : cilia light reddish-fuscous, becoming whitish towards 

 anal angle, extremities greyish-tinged, with a dark fuscous apical 

 spot, costal cilia white. Hindwings thinly scaled, grey ; cilia 

 light grey, with a faint darker line near base. 



Nearly allied to 8. zopherana, but forewings somewhat broader, 

 and characterised by the general reddish tint, and costal, not 

 subcostal, white streak. 



One specimen taken at Parramatta in November. 



10. Streps, obeliscana n. sp. 



3 $ . 5"-6". Head, dull white, greyish -tinged on sides. Palpi 

 elongate, not tufted, white, sometimes externally greyish-tinged. 

 Antennse grey, in male slightly thickened, and notched at about 

 one-tenth from basal joint. Thorax grey, suffused with white on 

 back. Abdomen whitish, tinged with ochreous grey towards 

 base of segments. Legs whitish, anterior and middle tibiae and 

 tarsi suffusedly banded with dark fuscous-grey. Porewings 

 narrow, costa gently arched, hindmargin sinuate beneath apex, 

 very oblique ; rather light grey, slightly brownish-tinged, irro- 

 rated with whitish, especially towards inner margin ; a broad 

 white costal streak from base to apex, attenuated posteriorly, 

 sharply-defined beneath, costal edge irrorated and sometimes in 

 male suffused with brownish-grey towards base, towards apex 

 with slender oblique brownish-grey strigulse, of which two or 

 three cross the white streak ; the lower margin of the white 

 streak is indented by a short tooth of the groundcolour before 

 middle, beyond this irregularly margined by a blackish line; 

 a sharply-defined small black spot above anal angle, beyond 

 which is a small oval space preceded and followed by a silvery- 

 metallic line, and sometimes enclosing two or three black dots ; 

 cilia brownish-grey, mixed with whitish towards anal angle, 



