594 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



and habits is highly peculiar. The pupa is long, slender, the 

 antennal eases projecting beyond abdomen ; enclosed in a dense 

 white cocoon. 



38. Harpedonistis, n.g. 



Head rough, face smooth; ocelli present; tongue developed. 

 Antennee 1^, in i^ filiform, simple, basal joint dilated, concave 

 beneath, with pecten. Labial palpi moderately long, slightly 

 curved, porrected, shortly rough-scaled beneath throughout, 

 terminal joint as long as second, pointed. Maxillary palpi rudi- 

 mentary. Posterior tibise rough-haired. Forewings with vein 1 

 furcate, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from beyond middle. 

 Hindwings 1, elongate-ovate, cilia 1 ; vein 4 absent. 



Closely related to Nematohola, of which it is doubtless a 

 development. 



174. Harp, gonometra, n.sp. 



(J$. 14-15 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax light 

 ochreous. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Legs light ochreous 

 sprinkled with fuscous, posterior pair ochreous-whitish. Fore- 

 wings elongate, costa rather strongly arched, apex tolerably acute, 

 hindmargin slightly rounded, very oblique ; light ochreous, 

 irregularly sprinkled with ochreous-brown ; a white outwardly 

 oblique streak from inner margin beyond middle, reaching half 

 across wing, and a similar inwardly oblique streak from anal angle, 

 their extremities almost meeting ; first of these preceded by an 

 ochreous-brown sufi"usion, and space between them wholly sufi'used 

 with ochreous-brown ; a sufi'used ochreous-brown streak along 

 hindmargio and apical part of costa : cilia whitish-ochreous, mixed 

 with ochreous-brown, basal half white on costa and upper half of 

 hindmargin, marked with a deep black spot at apex. Hindwings 

 and cilia ochreous-grey-whitish. 



Warragul, Victoria ; two specimens received from Mr. G. H. 

 Raynor. 



39. Thereutis, n.g. 



Head with dense rough hairs on crown projecting between 

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



