526 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPLDOPTERA, 



with blackish. Abdomen dark ochreous-grey. Legs whitish- 

 ochreous mixed with grey ; anterior and middle tibiae and tarsi 

 dark fuscous with pale rings. Forewings moderately broad, 

 costa arched towards base, hindmargin obliquely rounded ; dark 

 purplish-fuscous, suffused with purplish-grey, and crossed by 

 numerous irregular transverse broken blackish lines ; a black 

 tooth of scales on inner margin near base : cilia dark purple- 

 fuscous, with a darker central line. Hindwings grey, spotted 

 with dark fuscous-grey ; cilia grey, with a dark fuscous-grey line 

 near base. 



Allied to D. rupicolana, from which it is separated by the dark 

 purplish-fuscous colour and transverse blackish lines ; the male 

 is unknown to me, but might be expected to have more distinct 

 markings, as in D. rupicolana. 



One female taken by Mr. G. H. Eaynor near Melbourne. 



4. Dipt, rupicolana, n. sp. 



<$ $ . 6f"-9". Head, palpi, and thorax dark grey mixed with 

 paler. Antennae whitish-grey, annulated with dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen pale ochreous-grey. Legs whitish-grey, anterior and 

 middle tibiae and all tarsi dark fuscous with pale rings. Fore- 

 wings moderately broad, in male dilated posteriorly, costa 

 moderately arched, hindmargin obliquely rounded ; light grey, 

 more or less suffused with darker grey, and with numerous 

 scattered black transverse strigulae ; costa and inner margin 

 strigulated with blackish, last five costal strigulae dilated into 

 small subquadrate spots ; extreme base of wing dark fuscous- 

 grey ; outer edge of basal patch represented by an irregular 

 interrupted blackish line from one-fifth of costa to one-fifth of 

 inner margin, angulated in middle ; central fascia narrow, oblique, 

 dark grey, irregularly margined with blackish, in female often 

 obsolete, running from before middle of costa to beyond middle 

 of inner margin, attenuated at lower extremity ; a small cloudy 

 dark grey irregular spot on anal angle, and another on hind- 



