274 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, XVIII., 



12. Head whitish or grey 30. chalcoscia. 



Head whitish-ochreous 32. enxena. 



13. Forewings golden-ochreous 31. melitopis. 



Forewings pale greyish-ochreous 34. inficeta. 



14. A distinct white costal streak 15. 



No white costal streak 16, 



15. Costal streak reaching i 35. stratimera. 



Costal streak reaching f 38. sclerotricha, 



16. Stigmata absent 41. isotis. 



Stigmata present 17. 



17. Stigmata ochreous, blackish-edged... 46. pojmlaris. 



Stigmata dark fuscous 18. 



18. Tuft of palpi very short.... 19. 



Tuft of palpi long 20. 



19. First discal stigma obsolete 44. ischnota. 



First discal stigma blackish ... 43. coniodes. 



20. Head white, seldom mixed with grey 39. apliileta. 



Head whitish-ochreous 45, achroa. 



26. M. 'platyleuca^ n.sp. 



(J9' 11-1"^ vavn. Head white. Palpi white, second joint 

 rather dark fuscous except base and apex, tuft long, loose, quad- 

 rangular, apex of terminal joint dark fuscous. Antennae grey. 

 Thorax white, patagia tinged with grey. Abdomen grey, in ^ 

 whitish-suffused. Legs dark fuscous, apex of joints and hairs of 

 posterior tibiae whitish. Forewings j^ointed; fuscous, mixed with 

 blackish-fuscous; a broad shining white costal streak from base 

 to beyond middle, thence leaving costa and rather narrowed to 

 \', an oblique white line from f of costa, terminating imme- 

 diately beyond apex of this; a broad suffused white dorsal streak 

 from base to tornus; stigmata black, plical very obliquely beyond 

 first discal; some white suffusion towards termen : cilia whitish- 

 fuscous, round apex and on costa whiter, with black basal dot at 

 apex, and with two dark fuscous lines round apex. Hindwings 

 light grey; cilia whitish-fuscous. 



Sydney, New South Wales; Gisborne, Victoria; Deloraine, 

 Tasmania; Perth, West Australia; in November and December, 

 four specimens. 



