444 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



irrorated with fuscous on margins. Abdomen pale ochreous. 

 Legs whitish-ochreous, anterior and middle tibioe and tarsi 

 suffused with dark fuscous except at apex of joints. Forewings 

 triangular, costa sligktly bent before middle, apex very sligktly 

 produced, kindmargin oblique ; ligkt greyisk-ockreous at base, 

 becoming ockreous in middle, skading into dark reddisk-ockreous- 

 brown along kindmargin, wkere it appears to form a broad 

 suffused band ; tke wkole surface of tke wing is strewn with 

 numerous small obscure spots of pale leaden scales ; costal fold 

 dark fuscous ; costal edge very narrowly wkite from extremity 

 of fold to a little before apex : cilia redclisk-ockreous-brown, at 

 anal angle fuscous-grey, extremities wkite. Hindwings whitish - 

 grey, spotted witk darker grey, apex darker ; cilia wkitisk-grey, 

 witk a darker basal line. 



A very distinct species ; I took one specimen amongst scrub 

 near Wellington, New Zealand, in January. 



11. Capua, Stepk. 



Tkorax smootk, or sligktly crested. Antennae in male 

 tkickened, somewhat dentate, strongly ciliated. Palpi moderate 

 or rather long, straight, porrected, second joint triangularly scaled. 

 Forewings short, subtriangular, costa in male with broad basal 

 fold, bent before middle, thence nearly straight, hindmargin 

 oblique, hardly rounded ; in male often with an expansible tuft 

 of hairs beneath costal fold. Hindwings rather elongate, broader 

 than forewings. Forewings with veins 7 and 8 stalked, vein 7 

 running to hindmargin. Hindwings with veins 3 and 4 from a 

 point or short-stalked, 5 moderately approximated to 4 at base, 

 6 and 7 stalked. 



Tkis genus forms tke typo of a group ckaracterised by veins 

 3 and 4 of hindwings rising from the same point, 7 and 8 of 

 forewings springing from the same stalk, and the presence of the 

 costal fold in the male. It differs from the other Australian 

 members of the group, Asthenoptycha and Acrocetithes, in the 



