526 DESCRIPTIONS OP AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



67. Mhn. ochetaula, n.sp. 



(J. 1 3 mm. Head fuscous-whitish, sides of crown white, face 

 more fuscous-tinged. Palpi fuscous, apex of joints whitish. 

 Antennae pale fuscous. Thorax ochreous-brown. Abdomen 

 fuscous. Legs dark fuscous ; apex of joints and hairs of posterior 

 tibise whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa moderately 

 arched, apex roundpointed, hindmargin slightly sinuate, very 

 oblique ; ochreous-brown ; a rather broad straight white median 

 longitudinal streak from base to apex, lower edge triangularly 

 indented at § ; a narrow white longitudinal subdorsal streak from 

 base, becoming obsolete towards anal angle ; a whitish suffusion 

 on costa about f : cilia fuscous-whitish, with two cloudy dark 

 ochreous-fuscous lines, and a white bar at apex. Hindwings 

 rather light grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 



Sydney, New South Wales; in March, one specimen. 



14. Blabophanes, Z. 



Head densely rough-haired ; ocelli absent ; tongue short. 

 Antennae f, in ^ pubescent-ciliated or simple, joints closely set, 

 basal joint with small pecten. Labial palpi moderate, porrected, 

 with tolerably appressed scales, second joint with several long 

 bristles towards apex, terminal joint moderate, obtuse or tolerably 

 pointed. Maxillary palpi long, tolerably filiform, folded. Posterior 

 tibiae clothed with hairs. Forewings with a naked usually tr-ans- 

 parent depression in disc beneath ; vein 1 furcate, 3 and 4 stalked, 

 sometimes 6 and 7, or 7 and 8, or 9 and 10 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 

 from near middle or sometimes from near posterior angle of cell. 

 Hindwings 1, elongate-ovate, cilia |; sometimes 5 and 6 stalked. 



A genus of limited extent but cosmopolitan distribution ; it is 

 a direct development of Tinea. The larvae feed on refuse of 

 various kinds ; hence the species are sometimes domestic ; one of 

 the Australian species has thus been introduced from Europe, and 

 another is common to Australia and New Zealand ; the other two 

 are endemic. 



