496 DESCRIPTIONS OP AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



fi'oiii ^ of costa to middle of inner margin, more or less interrupted 

 on lower half : cilia grey-whitish. Hindwings light grey ; cilia 

 whitish, base grey. 



Sydney, New South Wales; at the end of February and 

 beginning of March, eight s{)ecimens, mostly taken at lamps. 

 Especially distinguished by the peculiar form of forewings, white 

 head, and form of a)itemedian fascia. 



16. Xysni. sa.vosa, n.sp. 



(Jj. 27-35 mm. Plead, palpi, and thorax fuscous, mixed with 

 grey-whitish. Antennae whitish. Abdomen grey. Legs dark 

 fuscous, posterior tarsi fuscous-whitish. Forewings elongate, costa 

 in ^ moderately arched, in ^ more strongly and fringed with cilia, 

 especially on anterior half, apex obtuse, hindmargin obliquely 

 rounded ; 7 and 8 long-stalked ; pale fuscous, suflfused with 

 whitish, transversely strigulated and reticulated with dark fus- 

 cous ; markings formed by an irregular fuscous or dark fuscous 

 suffusion, incompletely defined ; a fascia near base, externally 

 angulated in middle ; a small quadrate spot on inner margin at | ; 

 a fascia from ? of costa to beyond middle of inner margin, angu- 

 lated on submedian fold ; three quadrate spots on costa towards 

 f , connected by a broad very irregular fascia narrowed downwards 

 with anal angle : cilia grey-whitish, base spotted with dark 

 fuscous. Hindwings grey-whitish, distinctly strigulated through- 

 out with gi*ey ; cilia whitish. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; in July, six specimens. A winter 

 insect, characterised by large size and more complex marking, 

 and differing from all the rest of the genus by the well-marked 

 strigulation of the hindwings, and fringed costa of forewings of 9- 



17. Xysm. adeIo2)is, n.sp. 



(JQ. 22-25 mm. Head fuscous, sometimes mixed with whitish 

 on crown. Palpi whitish, above dark fuscous. Antennie whitish. 

 Thorax fuscous mixed with whitish. Abdomen dark fuscous, some- 

 times mixed with whitish, anal tuft of 2 whitish-ochreous. Legs 

 dark fuscous, posterior pair grey-whitish. Forewings elongate. 



