568 DESCRIPTIONS OP AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



Newcastle and Sydney, New South Wales ; from June to 

 December, sometimes common on fences near houses. It has been 

 bred from larvse feeding on sheets of cork. 



29. TiMAEA, Walk. 



Head densely rough-haired on crown, face with appressed hairs ; 

 ocelli present ; tongue short. Antennae |, in |^ serrate, ciliated 

 (1), basal joint moderate, with pecten. Labial palpi moderately 

 long, ascending, second joint shortly rough-scaled beneath, with 

 numerous long scattered bristles, terminal joint as long as second, 

 slender, with appressed scales, pointed. Maxillary palpi short, 

 loosely scaled. Posterior tibiae clothed Avith long rough hairs. 

 Forewings with vein 1 furcate, 7 to costa, 11 from before middle. 

 Hindwings 1, elongate-ovate, cilia ^ ; veins 5 and 6 somewhat 

 a.pproximated at base, 6 to costa. 



The genus must be not very remotely connected with Tinea, 

 but the intermediate forms are missing. It nearly represents the 

 ancestral type from which most of the succeeding genera can be 

 derived. 



140. Tim. bivittatella, Walk. 



(Timaea bivittatella, Walk. 521 ; T. costella, ih. 521 ; Manliana 

 astrictella, ib. 1012.) 



(J5. 21-24 mm. Head white, forehead and sides of face rather 

 dark fuscous. Palpi white, terminal joint externally dark fuscous 

 towards apex. Antennae grey-whitish. Thorax whitish-ochreous. 

 Abdomen whitish. Legs dark ochreous-fuscous, posterior pair 

 whitish. Forewings very elongate, costa moderately arched, apex 

 acute, hindmargin very oblique, slightly sinuate ; snow-white ; a 

 narrow dark fuscous ochreous-tinged streak along costa from near 

 base to near apex, finely attenuated anteriorly ; in 9 also a narrow 

 straight yellowish-brown median longitudinal streak from base to 

 apex ; cilia white. Hindwings pale whitish-grey or grey-whitish ; 

 cilia whitish. 



Sydney and Blackheath (3500 feet). New South Wales ; Mel- 

 bourne and Warragul, Victoria] Georges Bay, Tasmania ; Mount 

 Lofty, South Australia ; Perth and Albany, West Australia ; from 



