476 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LFPIDOPTERA, 



streak from apex along hindmargin : cilia whitish-ochreous, 

 anal angle dark fuscous, indistinctly barred with, dark fuscous 

 towards base. Hind-wings fuscous-grey ; cilia whitish-grey, with 

 a suffused dark grey line near base. 



Distinguished amongst the pale ochreous species by its small 

 size, narrow forewings, and the completely indicated basal patch. 

 In general appearance it strongly resembles Isoch. ranulana, the 

 markings being almost identical ; the structural differences are 

 the only safe means of separation, but this species is usually 

 distinctly the larger. 



Bather common near Sydney and Parramatta; also at Mel- 

 bourne, and at Brighton iu Tasmania ; it occurs in February and 

 March, in dry bush, but there may probably be also an earlier 

 generation. 



8. Dich, solana, Walk. 

 (Term solana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat. 300). 



$ ? . 5"-6k". Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax ochreous- 

 brown. Abdomen brownish-grey. Legs ochreous-whitish, 

 anterior and middle tibiae and tarsi banded with dark fuscous. 

 Forewings oblong, moderately broad, costa arched towards base, 

 hindmargin oblique ; greyish-brown, in male more ochreous- 

 tinged, and paler towards hindmargin, with dark fuscous mark- 

 ings, which are most distinct in male, in female not much darker 

 than groundcolour ; basal patch indistinct, its outer edge running 

 from one-fourth of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, angulated 

 outwards and in male blackish in middle, lower portion often 

 obsolete ; central fascia moderate, oblique, from before middle of 

 costa to inner margin before anal angle, lower extremity in male 

 obsolete, posterior edge with a short semicircular excavation in 

 middle ; a broadly triangular patch on costa at three-fourths ; a 

 cloudy elongate transverse mark before middle of hindmargin : 

 cilia in male ochreous-fuscous, in female greyish-fuscous. Hind- 



