698 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEI'IDOPTERA, 



tufts generally immediately preceded by a small black dot; 

 sometimes a faint grey angulated transverse line from four-fifths 

 of costa to anal angle ; a sharp black line along hindmargin : 

 cilia white, faintly suffused with grey, with two indistinct grey 

 lines. Hindwings whitish-grey ; cilia whitish, with two very 

 faint grey lines. 



Eeadily known by its pale whitish colouring and black dots. 



The imago frequents damp or swampy ground, flying low 

 amongst the herbage; it occurs tolerably commonly round 

 Sydney and Parramatta, and at Blackheath on the Blue 

 Mountains (3,500 feet), in September, and again in February 

 and March. 



2. Par. adreptella Walk. 



(Gelechia adreptella Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat. 654). 



$ ? . 6A-"-6f". Head, palpi, and thorax pale grey irrorated 

 with whitish ; palpi beneath sharply dark fuscous. Antennae, 

 abdomen, and legs whitish, anterior and middle pair infuscated. 

 Forewings very narrow, costa gently arched, somewhat bent 

 before middle, hindmargin straight, very oblique; light grey, 

 more whitish towards base of costa, distinctly ochreous-tinged, 

 and thickly irrorated with dark grey ; a suffused black spot in 

 disc at two-thirds from base ; between this and base are about 

 eight black dots in upper half of wing, irregularly arranged, 

 tending to be followed by raised scales ; two or three tufts of 

 raised scales towards submedian fold ; a very indistinct angulated 

 transverse dark grey line from three-fourths of costa to anal 

 angle ; an ill-defined blackish line along hindmargin ; cilia grey, 

 with light points, and two indistinct dark grey lines. Hindwings 

 whitish, towards apex pale grey ; cilia whitish, with a suffused 

 faint grey line near base. 



Larger than P. aquilana, with the costa of forewings distinctly 

 bent, and the groundcolour appearing much darker from the 



