428 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



Brisbane and Toowoomba, Queensland ; Sydney, New South 

 Wales; Warragul, Victoria; Deloraine, Tasmania; from Septem- 

 ber to November and in February, fourteen specimens. 



249. X. vallafa, n.sp. 



Q. 8-10 mm. Head and palpi white. Antennae grey, base 

 white. Thorax white, variably suffused with dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen dark grey. Legs dark fuscous, posterior pair suffused 

 with whitish. Forewings white; two bright ferruginous fasciae, 

 mixed with black dorsally and sometimes black-edged in disc, first 

 median, inwardly oblique, second opposite tornus, vertical, con- 

 fluent on costa and sometimes connected in disc ; ferruginous 

 streaks from second fascia along costa and termen to apex, some- 

 times undefined or indistinct, sometimes terminating in an apical 

 spot of black scales : cilia brownish-ochreous, base white, some- 

 times limited by a black line, sometimes with an indistinct 

 whitish bar at apex, variable undefined spots of black irroration 

 at apex and tornus. Hindwings dark fuscous; cilia fuscous. 



Sydney, New South Wales; Gisborne, Victoria; in November, 

 January, and March, four specimens. 



37. Epermenia, Hiib. 



Antennse 4, in ^ evenly ciliated. Labial palpi long, curved, 

 thickened with loose scales, terminal joint from one-fourth to half 

 second, rather obtuse. Posterior tibife clothed with bristly hairs. 

 Forewings with one or more dorsal scale-teeth; lb furcate, 7 and 

 8 sometimes stalked, 7 to termen. Hindwings |, elongate-lan- 

 ceolate, cilia 2-4; 6 and 7 approximated or stalked. 



A rather small but probably nearly cosmopolitan genus, doubt- 

 less of considerable antiquity. Lnago with forewings more or 

 less narrowly elongate, pointed. Larva usually feeding in a 

 slight web amongst spun leaves. Pupa in an open network cocoon. 



1. Palpi with apical scale-projection on second joint 



beneath 250. euryhias. 



Palpi without scale-projection beneath 2. 



