558 DESCRIPTIONS OP AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



Labial palpi moderate, porrected, second joint with appressed 

 scales, slightly rough beneath, with a few long bristles towards 

 apex, terminal joint moderate, tolerably pointed. Maxillary palpi 

 long, filiform, folded. Posterior tibiae clothed with long fine hairs. 

 Forewings with vein 1 simple, 4 absent, 7 to costa, 11 from ^. 

 Hindwings f-|, narrow-lanceolate, cilia 2-3 ; veins 5 and 6 some- 

 times stalked. 



Besides the following species there are four in New Zealand, 

 and it is therefore probable that the genus is a development of 

 Tinea, originating in New Zealand, of which a straggler has made 

 its way to the Australian region. 



121. End. oxytona, n.sp. 



(J. 10-11 mm. Head white, face mixed with fuscous. Palpi 

 white, externally dark fuscous except apex of joints. Antennae 

 white, annulated with dark fuscous. Thoi'ax white, mixed with 

 dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-grey. Legs dai-k fuscous, apex 

 of joints and posterior pair whitish. Forewings vei'y elongate, 

 narrow, costa gently arched, apex acute, hindmargin extremely 

 obliquely rounded ; white, mixed with pale ochreous ; markings 

 fuscous irrorated with black ; a broad streak along costa from base 

 to beyond middle, apex truncate ; an irregular suffusion along 

 inner margin from base to anal angle, where it expands into a 

 spot, and is preceded by some scattered black scales in disc ; a 

 small cloudy spot on costa at | : cilia white, on hindmargin 

 irrorated with pale ochreous, with two or three incomplete lines 

 of black points, with a blackish elongate spot at apex. Hindwings 

 light grey ; cilia ochreous-grey-whitish. 



Port Lincoln, South Australia ; in November, two specimens. 



21. Mychonoa, n.g. 



Head rough-haired; ocelli present; tongue developed. Antennse 

 f , in ^ pubescent, joints closely set, basal joint without pecten. 

 Labial palpi moderate, rather drooping, loosely scaled, slender, 

 terminal joint as long as second, pointed. Maxillary palpi 



