446 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEP1DOPTERA, 



2. Without pale greyish-ochreous space 

 beneath costal fold. 



a. Basal patch darker than ground-colour 9. sordidatana. 



b. Basal patch not darker, only outer 



edge indicated. 



i. Face dark fuscous . . . . . . 7. chiuierinana. 



ii. Face pale ochreous . . . . . . 8. semiferana. 



1. Cap. aoristana, n. sp. 



(J . 6^"-6.V". Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous-grey-whitish, 

 mixed with darker. Palpi elongate, more than twice as long as 

 head, irrorated on sides with dark fuscous. Antennas grey- 

 whitish, slenderly annulated with dark fuscous. Abdomen 

 greyish-ochreous. Legs whitish, anterior and middle tibise and 

 tarsi suffused with dark Jfuscous-grey above. Forewings 

 posteriorly dilated, rather broad, costa moderately arched, some- 

 what bent before middle, hindmargin nearly straight, rather 

 oblique : ochreous-whitish, thinly irrorated with whitish-grey ; 

 costa and inner margin obscurely strigulated with fuscous-grey ; 

 basal patch represented by an obscure ochreous-grey or fuscous - 

 grey outwardly oblique streak from one-third of inner margin, 

 reaching more than half across wing ; central fascia suffused, 

 obscure fuscous-grey, only distinct on costa, moderately narrow, 

 straight, running from middle of costa to inner margin before 

 anal angle ; an irregular obscure brownish-grey cloud on costa 

 at three-fourths, suff usedly produced nearly to anal angle ; cilia 

 ochreous-whitish, with a slender dark grey lino near base. Hind- 

 wings grey, faintly spotted with darker, apex darker ; cilia 

 whitish-grey, with a darker basal line. 



This species has an indistinct and faded appearance, from the 

 faintness of its markings, but does not approach very nearly to 

 any other, being further distinguished by the elongation of its 

 palpi ; in form of wing it is very similar to Pyry. purphyreana. 



