388 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



banded with blackish. Forewings whitish; a small dark fuscous 

 spot on costa near base, and one on fold below it, latter margined 

 posteriorly and beneath by tufts of scales; a broad median dark 

 brown band, irrorated and anteriorly broadly suffused with black, 

 anterior edge sharpl}^ defined, running from costa at f to dorsum 

 at ^, posterior edge from costa at | to dorsum beyond tornus, 

 deeply excavated in middle; five large somewhat coppery-metallic 

 tufts placed in this band; an apical patch of black irroration, 

 enclosing a marginal series of light brown spots : cilia light 

 fuscous, below apex irrorated with whitish, above it with blackish. 

 Hindwings fuscous, darker posteriorly; cilia light fuscous. 

 Sydney, New South Wales; in November, one specimen. 



164. ^'. antithetis, n.sp. 



(J^. 10-11 mm. Differs from S. toreutica as follows : abdomen 

 more suffused with ochreous yellowish; fore wings with anterior 

 edge of dark band rising from costa before J, therefore hardly at 

 all oblique, a white spot on costa before middle enclosed in the 

 dark band. 



Adelaide, South Australia; tliree specimens received from Mr. 

 E. Guest. This is probably to be regarded only as a geographical 

 form of S. toreutica, but since the two forms are at present clearly 

 distinguishable, I have thought it best to keep them separate 

 until more is known of them. 



165. aS'. harmosta, n.sp. 



(J2. 11-12 mm. Head and thorax white, shoulders with a dark 

 fuscous spot. Palpi white, second joint sprinkled with ochreous, 

 with two blackish rings, terminal joint sometimes with two 

 blackish rings. Antennj« whitish, ringed with fuscous. Abdo- 

 men grey. Legs whitish, banded with dark fuscous. Forewings 

 dark grey, irrorated and mixed with white, with some scattered 

 black scales; a broad irregular-edged clear white median band, 

 dilated on dorsum, anterior edge concave; whitish partly ochreous- 

 tinged tufts below fold near base and at i, above fold at 4, two 

 in disc on anterior edge of median band, one in band near dorsum, 



