502 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



also at Hobartown, Tasmania ; it occurs from September to 

 November, and is sluggish, in habit. I bred one specimen from 

 Acacia decurrens, having brought in a branch as food for other 

 species, without noticing the larva. 



The description of Tortrix askworthana, Newman, (Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond. N.S. 3, 286) seems rather to point to this species, but 

 is insufficient for determination. 



19. Cac. postvittana, Walk. 



(Teras postvittana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat. 297 ; ? Teras retractana 

 ibid. 288 : Teras dotatana, ibid. 298 ; Teras scituhna, ibid. 

 298 ; leras basialbana, ibid. 299 ; Teras secretana, ibid. 300 ; 

 Pandemis secundaria, ibid. 310 ; Pandemis consociana, ibid. 311 ; 

 Dichelia reversana, ibid. 321 ; Dichelia fcedana, ibid. 321 ; 

 Dichelia sobriana, ibid. 322 ; Padisca immersana, ibid, 380). 



$ . 6f "-9J". Head, palpi, antennae and thorax whitish-ochre- 

 ous, more or less suffused with brownish-ochreous. Abdomen 

 whitish-ochreous. Legs whitish, anterior and middle tibiae and 

 all tarsi suffusedly banded with dark fuscous-grey. Forewings 

 broad, short, costa gently arched, strongly bent before middle, 

 costal fold short, narrow, fringed with hairs, not reaching base, 

 hindmargin obliquely rounded ; pale ochreousor whitish-ochreous, 

 sometimes irrorated with fuscous ; costa and inner margin more 

 or less distinctly strigulated with ochreous or fuscous ; markings 

 variable in intensity, reddish-ochreous, fuscous, or dark reddish- 

 fuscous ; basal patch faintly indicated or quite obsolete, outer 

 edge angulated, often represented only by a small costal spot at 

 one-fifth ; central fascia oblique, from before middle of costa to 

 inner margin before anal angle, slender on costa, often widely 

 interrupted in middle, anterior edge generally distinct, sometimes 

 dark-margined, nearly straight, posterior edge distinct towards 

 costa, dilated and suffused beneath ; sometimes a narrow streak 

 or cloud along inner margin from base to fascia, often produced 

 also along hindmargin and attenuated to apex, or the hindmarginal 



