390 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LBPIDOPTERA, 



costa at 5: cilia fuscous, round apex irrorated with blackish and 

 wliitish. Hind wings grey; cilia fuscous. 



xVdelaide and Wirrabara, South Australia; Carnar^■on, West 

 Australia; in October, three specimens. 



168. S. eximia, n.sp. 



9. 13 mm. Head and thorax light yellow-ochreous. Palpi 

 whitish-ochreous, second joint with two, terminal joint with three 

 bands of two subconfluent black rings each. Antennpe grey, 

 ringed with black. Abdomen dark grey. Legs dark fuscous, 

 ringed with whitish-ochreous. Forewings blackish ; a broad 

 yellow-ochreous subcostal stripe from base, becoming costal beyond 

 middle, reaching to near apex, lower edge with a triangular pro- 

 minence at 1^, including a tuft of scales, and curved downwards 

 at 4 so as to touch a yellow-ochreous tuft of scales in disc ; a 

 yellow-ochreous tuft of scales in disc below middle : cilia dark 

 grey, round apex blackish, with a brown apical bar, Hindwings 

 and cilia dark grey. 



Albany, West Australia; in December, one specimen. 



2.5. Trachydora, n.or 



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Antennje ^, in $ simple or shortly ciliated. Labial palpi long, 

 recurved, second joint clothed with rough hairs towards apex, 

 foi'iaing a projecting tuft beneath, terminal joint longer or shorter, 

 sometimes loosely scaled, acute. Posterior tibipe rough-haired. 

 Forewings with scale-tufts on surface; lb furcate, 7 and 8 out of 

 6, 7 to costa. Hindwings f , narrow-lanceolate, cilia 3-5; trans- 

 verse vein sometimes absent between 4 and 5, 5 and 6 sometimes 

 stalked. 



Type T. iJlustris. An endemic genus, probably of considerable 

 extent, but the species are retired in habit and verj- liable to be 

 overlooked. Imago with forewings elongate-lanceolate. As in 

 the two preceding genera, the species seem usually attached to 

 Mj/rtacecc. 



\. Abdomen orange except at base 17G. hc.liodora. 



Abdomen not orange posteriorly „ 2. 



