BY E. MEYRICK. 803 



10. Micr. melanocausia, n.sp. 



^9. 20-22 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen whitish- 

 ochreous, finely sprinkled with dark grey and blackish, patagia 

 with a black mark beneath shoulders. Antennae grey-whitish, in 

 (J ciliated (|), Legs dark fuscous, apex of joints and posterior 

 pair whitish. Forewings triangular, costa gently arched, more 

 strongly near base, hindmargin rather bowed, somewhat oblique ; 

 veins 4 and 5 in ^ somewhat approximated ; light grey, faintly 

 bi'ownish and rosy-tinged, sprinkled with whitish, and with 

 numerous faintly indicated waved darker lines, partially marked 

 with blackish on veins ; a thick cloudy black longitudinal streak 

 above inner margin from base to J ; margins of median band 

 obscurely indicated by blackish dots, anterior from |- of costa to § 

 of inner margin, nearly rectangularly angulated in middle, poste- 

 rior from f of costa to § of inner margin, ahiiost acutely angulated 

 above middle ; median band traversed by a thick longitudinal black 

 streak below middle, extended as a blackish suffusion along lower 

 half of anterior margin of band : cilia whitish-grey, with a some- 

 what darker brownish-tinged line. Hindwings in J" small, narrow, 

 terminally distorted and emarginate at apex, so that central third 

 of hindmargin appears to form a broad projection, with a terminal 

 depression margined above with rough scales, in ^ normal, hind- 

 margin rounded ; in ^ veins 2 and 3 stalked, 5 very widely 

 remote, approximated to 6 ; in J" whitish-ochreous, posterior half 

 of terminal depression blackish ; in ^ light grey ; cilia whitish. 



Deloraine, Tasmania ; in November, two specimens, 



11. Micr. squamidata, Gn. 



(Microdes squamidata, Gn. X. 298.) 



(J5. 18-20 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax pale greyish-ochreous, 

 densely irrorated Avith blackish-grey. Antennae grey-whitish, in 

 (J ciliated (^). Abdomen in ^ dark grey, central third sharply 

 whitish-ochreous ; in ^ grey-whitish irrorated with dark grey. 

 Legs blackish-grey, apex of joints whitish. Forewings triangular, 

 costa gently arched, more strongly near base, hindmargin bowed, 



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