BY E. MEYRICK. 603 



46. Stegommata, Meyr. 



Head roughly tufted on crown, face smooth ; ocelli absent ; 

 tongue developed. Antennse 1 or over 1, in ^ filiform, simple, 

 basal joint dilated and concave beneath, with strong dense pecten, 

 forming an eyecap. Labial palpi moderate, rather drooping, 

 slender, filiform, terminal joint twice as long as second. Maxillary 

 palpi obsolete. Posterior tibiae shortly rough-haired. Forewings 

 with vein 1 furcate, 4 absent, 5 absent, 7 to costa, 8 absent, 9 

 absent, 1 1 from middle. Hindwings ^, linear-lanceolate, cilia 6 ; 

 cell open between 2 and 5, 3 absent, 4 absent, 6 to hindmargin. 



Probably allied to Bucculatrix, but collaterally only, both being 

 derivable from some one earlier form. 



1. Forewings with short black streaks in disc 189. leptomitella. 

 Forewings without black streaks in disc 2, 



2. Forewings witli dorsal half suffused with 



pale yellow 191. sulfiiratella. 



Forewings with dorsal half not pale yellow 190. hesperias. 



189. Steff. leptomitella, Meyr. 

 (Stegommata leptomitella, Meyr., Proc. Linn, Soc. N.S.W. 1880. 

 172.) 



Also taken at Melbourne, Victoria, in October. 



190. Steg. hesperias, n.sp. 

 (Jg. 10-11 mm. Head white, crown slightly mixed with dark 

 fuscous. Palpi white. Antennae white, ringed with fuscous, 

 Thorax white. Abdomen whitish. Legs white, tarsi spotted with 

 dark fuscous. Forewings very elongate, narrow, acutely pointed, 

 apex produced ; snow-white ; four pale brownish-ochreous oblique 

 streaks from posterior half of costa, reaching about half across 

 wing, fourth little oblique ; a series of cloudy indistinct pale 

 brownish-ochreous spots along inner and hind margin, not reaching 

 half across wing ; a round black apical dot : cilia whitish, with 

 two fine outwardly oblique blackish dashes above apex, two grey 

 ones below apex, and a grey apical hook, Hindwings grey ; cilia 

 grey -whitish. 



