402 DESCRIPTIONS OP AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



(lark fuscous. Antennse fuscous-whitish, base white. Abdomen 

 fuscous Legs dark fuscous ringed with ochreous-whitish, 

 I^osterior pair wholl}^ ochreous-whitish. Forewings fuscous- 

 whitish, irrorated and sometimes suffused with fuscous ; an 

 irregular dark fuscous costal streak from near base to beyond 

 middle, usually bordered throughout beneath by a broad clear 

 white streak from base of costa, but in one specimen this is 

 suffused with fuscous from base to middle; first discal stigma 

 elongate, blackish, confluent with costal streak; a large subilorsal 

 tuft before middle, and several small ones in disc and at tornus; 

 p )sterior third of costa and sometimes termen dotted with dark 

 f ascous : cilia light fuscous, round apex sprinkled with whitish. 

 Hindwings fuscous, darker posteriorly; cilia light fuscous. 



Duaringa and Toowoomba, Queensland ; in November and 

 December, five specimens. 



27. Heliozela, H. Schaff. 



Antennae f, in ^ thick, simple. Labial palpi short or very 

 sliort, drooping, filiform, pointed. Posterior tiliise loosely haired. 

 Forewings : lb simple, 5 absent, 6 and 7 stalked, 7 to costa, 8 

 absent, 9 absent, 10 sometimes out of 7 near base. Hindwings 

 |, lanceolate, cilia 2-4; 2 absent, transverse vein absent between 

 .3 and 4, 6 absent. 



A small but probably nearly cosmopolitan genus; the species 

 are however usually so small, obscure, and difficult of observation, 

 that they are often passed over. Imago with forewings broad- 

 lanceolate; the species habitually fly in sunshine. Larva of exotic 

 species almost apodal, mining in petioles, leaves, or twigs, often 

 hard to detect; pupa in an oval case cut out from the leaf; these 

 have not been observed in Australia, biit probably have similar 

 habits. 



1. Forewings with entire antetnedian fascia 202. autogenes. 



Forewings without entire fascia 2. 



2. Forewings with posterior costat spot 3. 



Forewings without costal spot 6, 



3. Apical cilia whitish on terminal two-thirJs 4. 



Apical cilia whitish on terminal third only...., 5. 



