460 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



Taken not uncommonly at rest on fences in Sj^dney, from 

 September to February ; it also occurs at Waratab on tbe Hunter 

 River, and at Brisbane. 



Walker's descriptions are in tbis case tolerably accurate ; tbe 

 type of Carpocapsa trajectana is lost, but tbe description is certainly 

 referable to this species. 



2. Acroc. oxygrammana, n. sp. 



? . 1\". Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous-brown ; thorax 

 with strong crest. Antennae ochreous-fuscous. Abdomen ochre- 

 ous-grey, darker posteriorly, anal tuft broad, truncate. Legs 

 whitish, anterior and middle tibise and tarsi banded with dark 

 fuscous. Forewings posteriorly dilated, rather broad, costa 

 strongly arched, becoming straight towards apex, hindmargin 

 nearly straight, very oblique ; whitish, with clearly-defined rather 

 dark ochreous-grey markings ; costa and inner margin obscurely 

 strigulated with darker fuscous-grey ; basal patch dark ochreous- 

 grey, its outer edge starting from one-third of costa, thence curved 

 gently and obliquely inwards to one-fifth of inner margin ; central 

 fascia broad, oblique, starting from middle of costa and gradually 

 dilated, its anterior edge running to inner margin at two-thirds, 

 its posterior edge to hindmargin at one-third above anal angle, 

 enclosing a small elongate transverse suffused whitish spot before 

 anal angle ; tbe space between basal patch and central fascia 

 obscurely strigulated with ochreous-grey, most broadly on inner 

 margin ; a dark fuscous sharply-defined triangular patch on apical 

 third of costa, its anterior margin parallel to edge of central fascia 

 and only separated by a narrow whitish line ; within the patch 

 are three short white strigula3 in the costal cilia ; the space 

 between costal patch and hindmargin whitish, irregularly clouded 

 with ochreous-grey : cilia ochreous-whito, with a dark fuscous 

 line towards base. Hindwings f uscous-grej' ; cilia ochreous- 

 white, with the basal half fuscous-grey. 



