580 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPT ERA, 



anterior margin mixed with blackish. Abdomen grey. Legs 

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

 costa gently arched, apex roundpointed, hindmargin slightly 

 sinuate, rather strongly oblique ; dark grey, with scattered black 

 scales ; a broad cloudy white median streak from base to §, 

 extending to inner margin at base, containing some scattered 

 black scales, lower edge very irregular and marked with a small 

 black spot on submedian fold at |, another beneath middle, and a 

 longitudinal black mark in disc beyond middle, apex of streak 

 truncate immediately beyond this; a broad oblique white suffusion 

 from apex of wing, almost reaching extremity of median streak ; 

 a small white suffusion on anal angle : cilia white with two black 

 lines, at api x and anal angle with grey spots mixed with blackish. 

 Hindwings grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 



Sydney, Blackheath (3500 feet), and Bathurst (2500 feet). 

 New South Wales ; Melbourne, Victoria ; Hobart, Tasmania ; in 

 November, December, and March, common. 



32. AcMOSARA, Meyr. 



The type is no longer in my hands, and I can add nothing to 

 the original description of this genus ; it is related to Zelleria, but 

 not very closely. 



155. Acm. polyxena, Meyr. 



Acmosara j^olyxena, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1886, 

 1043.) 



33. Zelleria, Stt. 



Head with dense rough hairs on crown, projecting between 

 antennae, face smooth ; ocelli present ; tongue developed. Antennae 

 |-t, in (J serrate, simple, basal joint with pecten. Labial palpi 

 moderate, rather drooping, with appressed scales, terminal joint 

 longer than second, slightly roughened, tolerably pointed. Max- 

 illary palpi rudimentary. Posterior tibiae smooth-scaled. Fore- 

 wings sometimes with thickened costal patch between 11 and 12 ; 

 1 simple or very shortly furcate, 2 remote from 3, 4 and 5 some- 

 times stalked, 7 to hindmargin, 11 from before middle. Hind- 



