374 DESCRIPTIONS OP AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



versely placed close together or confluent above tornus; sometimes 

 a blackish costal dot beyond middle ; a black apical dot, and 

 another obliquely above and before it : cilia whitish-ochreous, 

 round apex sprinkled with black. Hindwings whitish-grey; cilia 

 whitish-grey-ochreous. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; Deloraine, Tasmania ; Albany, 

 "West Australia; from August to January, seven specimens. 



139. J/, cliaracta, n.sp. 



(^9- 9-11 mm. Head whitish, crown more or less mixed with 

 fuscous and dark fuscous. Palpi whitish, a broad band and sub- 

 apical ring of second joint, and basal and suljapical bands of 

 terminal joint blackish. Antennae Avhitish, fuscous-ringed, towards 

 apex with sevei^al broader fuscous bands. Thorax fuscous, mixed 

 with dark fuscous and whitish. Abdomen whitish-fuscous. Lecfs 

 dark fuscous, irrorated and ringed with whitish. Forewings 

 very narrow, ochreous-fuscous, moi'e or less irrorated irregularly 

 with dark fuscous, sometimes mixed with whitish towards dorsum 

 anteriorly, and towards termen and costa posteriorly; sometimes 

 a blackish costal mark near base; a tuft of ochreous and black 

 scales beneath fold at J; a raised black white-edged elongate dot 

 in disc somewhat before middle; a blackish raised dot beneath 

 fold somewhat beyond this; an irregular black sometimes whitish- 

 edged raised dot in disc beyond f ; a blackish spot on costa before 

 this, preceded by a pale spot; two or three irregularly placed 

 undefined dark fuscous spots towards apex : cilia fuscous, base 

 dark fuscous at apex. Hindwings and cilia fuscous. 



Sydney and Blackheath (3500 feet). New South Wales; Nelson, 



New Zealand; from June to November, and in March (the New 



Zealand example in January); nine specimens. The single 



specimen taken in New Zealand does not seem to exhibit any 



essential difference, but further examples are desirable to establish 



its identity. 



140. M. leptopis, n.sp. 



(J. 8 mm. Head white, crown sprinkled with dark fuscous. 

 Palpi white, a broad band and apical dot of second joint, and 



