372 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, XVIII., 



pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded, 2 and 3 approxi- 

 mated at base; dark purplish-fuscous, sprinkled with grey-whitish; 

 five white costal dots from middle to near apex; plical and second 

 discal stigmata white, partially darker-edged; some minute white 

 dots on termen : cilia fuscous, base and tips whitish, with a broad 

 whitish-ochreous patch below apex, and a dark fuscous subbasal 

 line. Hindwings over 1, apex round-pointed, termen hardly 

 sinnate; grey, darker posteriori}', base thinly scaled; cilia fuscous, 

 tips whitish. 



Mount Macedon and Gisborne, Victoria; Mount Lofty, South 

 Australia; in November, five specimens (Guest, Lyell). 



179. P. deltodes, Low. 

 {Gelechia deltodes, Low., Trans. R. Soc. S. Austr., 1896, 169.) 

 (J9. 15-19 mm. Head in ^ ochreous-white, in 9 ochreous- 

 fuscous. Palpi in $ ochreous-white, in 9 sufi'usedly irrorated 

 with dark fuscous, terminal joint as long as second. Antennae 

 dark fuscous, in ^ white towards base. Thorax in $ ochreous- 

 white, in 9 dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous, apex whitish- 

 ochreous. Legs dark fuscous ringed with white, hairs of pos- 

 terior tibiae ochreous- whitish. Fore wings with costa gently 

 arched, apex round-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; 2 

 and 3 stalked; pale ashy-grey, densely irrorated with dark fus- 

 cous, with bronzy-purplish reflections; in ^ a small ochreous- 

 white basal spot, in 9 a pale ochreous basal dot; ochreous-white 

 dots on costa near base, and at \ of dorsum, more ochreous in 9; 

 stigmata blackish-fuscous, plical obliquely beyond first discal, 

 both these followed by ochreous-whitish dots; an ochreous-whitish 

 dot on middle of costa; an ochreous-yellow blotch from tornus 

 reaching nearly across wing, anterior edge convex and margined 

 with an ochreous-white streak separated by some metallic scales, 

 posterior edge straight; an angulated series of ochreous-whitish 

 dots beneath posterior portion of costa and along termen : cilia 

 whitish-fuscous, basal half mixed with dark fuscous. Hindwings 

 over 1, apex round-pointed, termen not sinuate; grey; cilia light 

 grey, towards base ochreous-tinged. 



