BY E. MEYRICK. 



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Forewings light ochi-eous, thinly sprinkled with dark fuscous, 

 more thickly towards costa posteriorly ; plical stigma linear, 

 second discal dotlike, black : cilia aloove apex whitish-ochreous, 

 beneath light grey. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey. 



Brisbane, Queensland; Sydney and Mittagong (3000 feet). New 

 South Wales ; Deloraine and Mount Wellington, Tasmania ; 

 Adelaide, Wirrabara, and Port Lincoln, South Australia; common 

 also in New Zealand; September to March, thirty-six specimens. 

 Larva amongst seeds of Juncus, joining them together with a 

 slight web, in August (and doubtless most of the summer). Pupa 

 very slender, in a cocoon amongst the seeds. A common species, 

 probably very generally distributed in suitable localities. 



\. B. metaxias, n.sp. 



ij. 14 mm. Head ochreous- white. Palpi whitish, subbasal 

 and subapical bands on second joint, and base and apex of 

 terminal black, scale-projection very slight. Antennae as in B. 

 arenoaella, but suffused with fuscous above. Thorax and abdomen 

 whitish-ochreous. Legs dark fuscous, posterior tibife sprinkled 

 with whitish-ochreous, apex of tarsal joints whitish-ochreous. 

 Forewings pale ochreous; broad costal and dorsal streaks through- 

 out fuscous-tinged and irrorated with black : cilia above apex 

 whitish-ochreous, beneath whitish-fuscous. Hindwings grey; cilia 

 whitish-fuscous. 



Mt. Wellington, Tasmania; in December, one specimen. 



5. B. microtoma, n.sp. 



9. 11 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi whitish, median 

 and subapical bands on second joint, and median band on terminal 

 black, scale-projection very slight. Antennae ochreous-whitish, 

 suffusedly ringed with dark fuscous. Thorax and abdomen pale 

 ochreous. Legs dark fuscous, tibise and tarsi ringed with whitish- 

 ochreous. Forewings pale ochreous, deeper and yellower on a 

 discal streak from i- to f, irregularly irrorated with black except 

 on discal streak; a broad dark fuscous dorsal streak from base to 

 near apex; plical stigma elongate, second discal oval, black, resting 



