302 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA 



16. Terminal joint of palpi with base black 17. 



Terminal joint of palpi with base not black 13. hi/pachroa, 



17. Forewings pale ochreou.s..., 4. nietaxia-s. 



Forewings grey...., 8. eremochtha. 



IS. Forewiags with distinct black apical dot.. 9. helarcha. 



Forewings without such dot 19. 



19. Grounilcolour of forewings pale ochreous 5. microfoma. 



Groundcolour of forewings whitish 6. ■sferiUn 



20. Palpi wholly ochreous-white 12. holochlora. 



Palpi not wholly whitish 21. 



21. Cilia of forewings white 16. (eucophi/ta. 



Cilia of forewings whitish-fuscous 22. 



22. Groundcolour of forewings whitish-ochreous 18. mejjalodoxa. 



Groundcjlour of forewings pale fuscous 14. voliicri-f. 



2. />. relax, n.sp. 



Q. 12 mm. Head white, ci'own grey behind. Palpi wdiite, 

 tuft large, mixed with dark fuscous. Antenn;e dark fuscous. 

 Thorax fuscous, shoulders white. Abdomen grey. Legs dark 

 fuscous, posterior tarsi whitish-ringed. Forewings fuscous; costal 

 edoe white from base to §; a rather thick white supramedian 

 streak from costa at base to apex of wing, confluent with costal 

 edge to \, otherwise margined with black to f, beyond this indis- 

 tinct and ill-defined ; an elongate-oval black apical dot, and a 

 short black subapical dash : cilia whitish-fuscous, above apex 

 mixed with dark fuscous and with a dark fuscous subbasal line. 

 Hindwings grey; cilia whitish-grey. 



Albany, West Australia; in October, one specimen. 



.3. B. areiiowlhi, Walk. 



(Gracilaria arenoseUa, Walk. Tin. 857; Batrachedra tireno- 

 sella, Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst. 1888, 181.) 



(J^. 10-15 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous, 

 sometimes whitish-tinged. Palpi ochreous-whitish, apex of 

 •second joint and subbasal and subapical rings of terminal black, 

 scale-projection very slight. Antennfe whitish ochreous, indis- 

 tinctly fuscous-ringed, towards apex with two or three darker 

 fuscous bands. Legs whitish-ochreous, .spotted with dark fuscous. 



