324 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, XVIII., 



grey, apex whitish. Legs whitish, anterior pair suffused with 

 dark fuscous. Forewings white, more or less irrorated with brown 

 or dark fuscous on posterior half; two short very oblique dark 

 fuscous marks from costa before and beyond middle, and a third 

 at I stronger and continued to apex; a fuscous blotch, suffused 

 with dark fuscous on fold and towards dorsum, extending along 

 dorsum from base to near tornus, broadest in middle and reach- 

 ing half across wing, irregularly narrowed to a point posteriorly; 

 some irregular dark fuscous suffusion above tornus : cilia white, 

 sprinkled with dark fuscous, with blackish subbasal and median 

 lines in costal cilia, terminating at apex. Hindwings pale grey, 

 darker posteriorly; cilia pale grey. 



Brisbane, Queensland, frequenting Eucalyptus in September; 

 ten specimens, 



2-4. Epibrontis, n g. 



Antennae J, in ^ serrulate, simple, basal joint moderately 

 elongate, without peoten. Labial palpi long, recurved, second 

 joint with scales somewhat roughened beneath, terminal joint 

 shorter, acute. Forewings : 2 and 3 connate, G to apex, 7 and 8 

 coincident. Hindwings 1, trapezoidal, apex pointed, termen 

 slightly sinuate, cilia IJ; 3 and 4 connate, 5 somewhat approxi- 

 mated to 4, 6 and 7 tolerably parallel. 



Doubtless a derivative of rrotolechia. Imago with forewings 

 elongate, tolerably pointed. 



106. £. hemichlaema, Low. 



[Gelechia hemiclaema, Low., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., 1897, 

 55.) 



(J^. 10-12 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi white, terminal 

 joint dark fuscous except anterior edge. Antennce dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen whitish-fuscous, ajDex whitish. Legs dark fuscous, 

 ringed with whitish, hairs of posterior tibiae whitish. Forewings 

 white, irrorated with brown on posterior half; two short very 

 oblique dark fuscous marks from costa before and beyond middle, 

 and a third at | stronger and continued to apex; a semioval 

 fuscous blotch, mixed with dark fuscous, extending along dorsum 



