662 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



B. Forewings whitish-ochreous or ochreous- 

 brown ; apex shortly produced. 



1 . Head and thorax ochreous-brown. 



a. Hindwings dark fuscous .. ..8. crepusculana. 



b. Hindwings golden brownish-ochreous. 



i. Cilia of forewings brownish-ochreous 5. hibbertiana. 

 ii. Cilia of forewings grey, with two 



white subapical spots .. ..6. himerodana. 



2. Head and thorax pale ochreous mixed 



with fuscous .. .. .. ..7. fidana. 



3. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, face 



white . . . . . . . . . .9. segetana. 



1. Pal. anguillana, n. sp. 



$ . 5|". Head ochreous-fuscous above, whitish on sides, 

 strongly tufted between antennae. Palpi ochreous-white, tuft 

 dark fuscous towards extremity. Antennae dark fuscous. Thorax 

 ochreous-grey, paler on shoulders. Abdomen grey. Legs 

 whitish, anterior tibiae and all tarsi banded with dark fuscous. 

 Forewings moderately narrow, costa moderately arched, apex 

 strongly produced, hindmargin rounded beneath ; whitish, with 

 a few grey scales, and with a faint greyish suffusion towards anal 

 angle ; anterior half of costa strigulated with blackish ; a dark 

 grey irregularly semi-oval patch on anterior half of inner margin, 

 extending from base to a little beyond middle, and at its broadest 

 part reaching a little more than half across wing ; a rather larger 

 dark ferruginous irregularly oblong patch on posterior half of 

 costa, extending on costa from a little before middle to apex, and 

 reaching nearly two-thirds across wing, its lower edge parallel 

 to inner margin and rather ill-defined, its anterior edge outwardly 

 oblique and somewhat parallel to posterior edge of the grey patch : 

 cilia silvery-whitish, with a dark grey line near base. 



Nearly allied to P. infectana, but distinguished readily from it 

 by the whitish colour extending along anterior half of costa, the 



