304 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTBRA, 



on dorsal streak: cilia pale fuscous. Hind wings broader than in 

 B. arenosella, grey; cilia pale fuscous. 



Sydney, JSTew South Wales; in September, one specimen. 



6. B. sterilis, n.sp. 



(J9. 10-14 mm. Head ochreous-white. Palpi white, median 

 and subapical bands on second joint and sometimes a median ring 

 on terminal black, scale-projection distinct. Antennse whitish- 

 ochreous, ringed with dark fuscous Thorax ochreous-whitish, 

 sprinkled with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey-whitish. Legs 

 ochreous-whitish, banded with dark fuscou-s. Forewings whitish, 

 irrorated with dark fuscous, more densely toward dorsum; plical 

 stigma linear, first discal seldom defined, second dut-like, some- 

 times connected with first by a slender streak, and two oblique 

 costal striguLe before apex blackish, all sometimes partially 

 obsolete or obscured by the dark irroration : cilia above apex 

 whitish with a blackish median line, beneath whitish-fuscous. 

 Hindwings grey; cilia whitish-fuscous. 



Sydney, Kew South Wales; Mount Macedon, Victoria; Laun- 

 ceston and Hobart, Tasmania; September to Feliruary, twenty- 

 two specimens. 



7. B. mylephata, n.sp. 



(J. 1314 mm. Head white. Palpi white, basal, median, and 

 subapical bands of second joint, and median ring of terminal 

 blackish, scale-projection tuft-like, nearly as long as terminal 

 joint. Antennae white, fuscous-ringed. Thorax white, sometimes 

 fuscous-sprinkled. Abdomen whitish. Legs whitish, spotted with 

 dark fuscous. Forewings white, irrorated with fuscous and dark 

 fuscous ; plical stigma linear, first and second discal rather 

 elongate or dot-like, blackish: cilia above apex whitish with a 

 dark fuscous median line, beneath whitish-fuscous. Hindwings 

 grev; cilia whitish-fuscous. 



Brisbane, Queensland; in September, two specimens. 



8. B. eremoc/ifha, n.sp. 



(J. 9 mm. Head whitish, crown greyish-tinged. Palpi white, 

 subbasal and subapical rings of second joint, and basal and apical 



