514 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO -LEPIDOPTERA, 



line from "base to apex is a clear rather broad longitudinal space 

 of groundcolour, containing a short cloudy longitudinal fuscous- 

 grey line in middle of disc : cilia pale ochreous or light reddish- 

 fuscous towards base, whitish towards extremities, with a dark 

 fuscous-grey line along base. Hindwings fuscous-grey ; cilia 

 whitish, with a fuscous-grey line near base. 



Characterised by the cloudy but distinct longitudinal markings, 

 the colour and intensity of which appear subject to considerable 

 variation. 



Three males taken at Mount Macedon, Victoria, and at Parra- . 

 matta, New South Wales, in September. 



5. Tort, peloxythana, n, sp. 



<$ . 6f". Head, palpi, and thorax brownish-ochreous, irrorated 

 with dark fuscous. Antennae dark fuscous. Abdomen dark 

 fuscous mixed with ochreous. Legs ochreous- whitish, anterior 

 and middle tibiae and tarsi suffusedly banded with dark fuscous. 

 Forewings rather narrow, costa slightly arched, hindmargin 

 obliquely rounded ; ochreous-white, dorsal half below a line from 

 middle of base to apex wholly suffused with dark grey mixed 

 with ochreous, the groundcolour above this is irrorated with dark 

 grey and ochreous except towards costa ; markings dark grey 

 mixed with ochreous, on dorsal half obsolete through the suffusion ; 

 basal patch indistinct, outer edge starting from one-fourth of costa, 

 somewhat angulated above middle ; central fascia oblique, 

 moderately narrow, starting from costa before middle ; a wedge- 

 shaped elongate blotch along costa from beyond middle nearly 

 to apex : cilia ochreous-white, near anal angle grey, with a 

 blackish line near base. Hindwings rather dark fuscous-grey ; 

 cilia ochreous-whitish, with a dark fuscous line near base. 



Distinguished amongst the fasciated species by the dark grey 

 suffusion of the dorsal half of forewings, and the general darker 

 colouring. 



