356 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, XVIII., 



dark fuscous irrorated with whitish. Abdomen fuscous. Legs 

 dark fuscous irrorated and ringed with whitish, hairs of posterior 

 tibiag whitish. Forewings with costa gently arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen very obliquely rounded; 2 and 3 stalked; light brown, 

 slightly purple-tinged, irrorated with black and sometimes with 

 whitish; five obscure oblique series of undefined spots of blackish 

 irroration, first (subbasal) and median most conspicuous : cilia 

 whitish-fuscous, basal third irrorated with black. Hindwings 

 over 1, apex obtuse, termen not sinuate; fuscous, darker pos- 

 teriorly, with a well-marked naked transparent patch towards 

 base; cilia light fuscous. 



Glen Innes (4500 feet). New South Wales; York, West Aus- 

 tralia; in November and December, two specimens. 



155. P. sarisias, n.sp. 



(J. 11mm. Head white, palpi white, second joint fuscous- 

 tinged below apex, terminal joint as long as second. Antennre 

 fuscous. Thorax white, with blackish-fuscous subdorsal lines, 

 patagia bronzy-fuscous. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Legs white. 

 Forewings narrow, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, 

 termen extremely obliquely rounded ; 2 and 3 stalked; pale 

 bronzy-fuscous; costa narrowly white from base to beyond middle^ 

 a strong white longitudinal streak from base above middle to 4 

 of costa, upper edge projecting to touch costal streak before and 

 beyond middle, otherwise edged with blackish-fuscous, lower edge 

 margined with blackish-fuscous sufi'usion on posterior half; a 

 blackish-fuscous streak along fold from base almost to tornus; a 

 moderate cloudy white subdorsal streak from dorsum near base 

 to tornus; a white subterminal streak from above tornus to apex, 

 connected with termen by two tine branches margined with 

 blackish-fuscous dashes : cilia whitish-ochreous, round apex white, 

 with a dark fuscous apical bar. Hindwings over 1, apex 

 tolerably pointed, termen not sinuate; whitish-grey; cilia ochreous- 

 whitish. 



Brisbane, Queensland, in September; one specimen. 



