512 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LFPIDOPTERA, 



ochreous-grey, with an indistinct dark fuscous line near base. 

 Hindwings dark fuscous-grey, sometimes becoming golden-yellow 

 towards base ; cilia wliitisb-oclireous, with an indistinct dark 

 fuscous line near base. 



A distinct species, appearing to have three straight white or 

 grey-whitish fascia) on a dark ground. The tendency of the 

 hindwings (in both sexes) to sometimes become yellow at the 

 base is a curious form of variation. 



Bather common in marshy places amongst thickets of swamp- 

 vegetation ; it occurs at Sydney, Bulli, and on the Eichmond 

 River, in New South Wales ; near Melbourne ; and at Brighton 

 in Tasmania ; from September to November, and in January and 

 March. 



3. Tort, ceramicana, n. sp. 



<$ . 8ij". Head, palpi, antennas and thorax reddish-fuscous ; 

 thorax crested. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous. Legs whitish- 

 ochreous, anterior and middle tibiae and tarsi suffused above with 

 dark fuscous. Forewings moderate, costa moderately arched, 

 hindmargin sinuate below apex, oblique ; light reddish-fuscous, 

 with white and dark reddish-fuscous markings ; costal edge 

 slenderly dark fuscous towards base ; an indistinct reddish-fuscous 

 streak beneath costa from near base to one-third, interrupted by 

 a whitish spot before its extremity ; a sharply-defined triangular 

 dark reddish-fuscous spot, edged with ochreous-white, below 

 middle towards base, its anterior angle very acute, nearly reach- 

 ing middle of base of wing, upper posterior angle in middle of 

 wing at one-third from base, lower posterior angle almost reach- 

 ing middle of inner margin ; a rather narrow dark reddish-fuscous 

 streak from somewhat above centre of wing to anal angle, 

 margined with ochreous-whitish, posteriorly sinuate ; between 

 its upper extremity and the upper posterior angle of the triangular 

 spot is a small oblong whito spot ; a largo triangular dark 

 reddish-fuscous blotch towards apex, whitish-margined beneath, 



