366 STUDIES IN AUSTRALTAKT MTCROLEPIDOPTERA, 



Abdomen purple-fuscous; tuft wliitish-ochreous. Legs pale fus- 

 cous, annulated with whitish; posterior pair whitish. Forewings 

 posteriorly dilated, costa slightly arched, strongly so before apex, 

 apex rounded, hindmargin very obliquely rounded; pink; mark- 

 ings pale yellow, partly outlined with dark fuscous; a short, 

 oblique line from base of costa; a narrow, outwardly curved 

 fascia from costa at ^ to inner margin at ^; a narrow fascia from 

 costa before middle to tornus, dividing and reuniting in disc, so 

 as to enclose an island of ground-colour: a fine, irregularly waved 

 fascia from costa at | to termen above tornus; a broad, dark 

 fuscous line along costa from middle to |, thence continued as a 

 submarginal band to termen above tornus; an orange line on 

 apex and upper part of termen ; cilia orange. Hindwings 

 whitish; cilia whitish-ochreous, at apex grey. 



Differs in shape of forewing from the other species; the dark, 

 costal and submarginal line is characteristic. 



Q.: Killarney, in October; one specimen. 



Callithauma leptodoma, n.sp. 

 AeTTToSo/xos, slightly built. 



(J. 8-9 mm. Head whitish-ochreous; face whitish. Palpi 

 whitish ; an apical ring on second joint, and a subapical on 

 terminal joint, dark fuscous. Antennae whitish, with blackish 

 annulations. Thorax whitish-ochreous. Abdomen whitish. 

 Less whitish; anterior femora and tibiae fuscous; anterior and 

 middle tarsi annulated with fuscous. Forewings narrow, costa 

 strongly arched, apex round-pointed, termen obliquely rounded; 

 pale crimson; markings pale yellow, edged and partly mixed 

 with fuscous; an illdefined, basal fascia; a moderately broad, 

 slightly outwardly curved fascia from ^ costa to -| dorsum; a 

 broader, irregular-edged fascia from midcosta to before tornus, 

 enclosing a spot of ground-colour in middle, and giving off a 

 branch to mid-dorsum; a narrower, curved fascia, mostly suffused 

 with fuscous, from costa before apex to termen above tornus; a 

 line on apex and upper part of termen edged anteriorly with 

 fuscous; cilia pale j^ellow, towards tornus grey mixed with pale 

 crimson. Hindwings lanceolate; grey-whitish; cilia grey- whitish. 



