500 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



costa gently arched, apex roundpointed, hindmargin very obliquely 

 rounded ; 7 absent, 8 and 9 from a point or short-stalked ; in ^ 

 dark fuscous, irregularly and obscurely irrorated with white, 

 which forms a suffusion in disc towards base, a cloudy straight 

 median fascia, and some scattered posterior dots ; in ^ white, 

 strigulated throughout with dark fuscous, with irregular dark 

 fuscous fasciae before and beyond middle, the latter furcate 

 towards costa : cilia i-ather dark fuscous, with a few white scales. 

 Hindwings and cilia dark fuscous. 



Hobart, Tasmania ; in March, five specimens bred from cases 

 found on a fence'; the description of the case was unfortunately 

 lost. Very similar to the preceding and following, but the 

 neuration is peculiar and seems the best distinction ; the mark- 

 ings, though not identical, ai'e so ill-defined that they are hard to 

 trace. 



24. Xysm. 2>yginaea, n.sp. 



$. 8 mm. Head, palpi, antennse, thorax, and abdomen fuscous; 

 legs dark fuscous, apex of joints and posterior pair fuscous-whitish. 

 Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex roundpointed, 

 hindmargin very obliquely rounded ; 7 absent ; dark fuscous, 

 with numerous scattered small obscure spots of whitish-ochreous 

 or whitish-fuscous scales : cilia fuscous, with some fuscous-whitish 

 scales. Hindwings rather dark fuscous ; cilia fuscous. 



Mount Victoria (3000 feet\ New South Wales ; four specimens 

 in November, in a forest gully. The small size and absence of 

 definite markings will distinguish it from all the rest. 



25. Xysm. nephelodes, n.sp. 

 ^. 15-18 mm. Head and antenna? whitish or fiiscous-whitish 

 Palpi dark fuscous, beneath wliitish. Thorax pale grey. Abdo 

 men whitish-grey. Legs dark grey, posterior pair whitish. Fore 

 wings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex roundpointed 

 hindmargin very obliquely rounded ; 7 absent ; grey, densely and 

 suffusedly irrorated throughout with white : cilia grey-whitish 

 Hindwings whitish-grey ; cilia grey-whitish. 



