392 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, XVIII., 



abdomen, and legs whitish-ochreous, legs irrorated with dark 

 fuscous. Forewings moderate, costa moderately arched; pale 

 brownish-ochreous sprinkled with dark fuscous; stigmata cloudy, 

 dark fuscous, plical beneath first discal; a row of cloudy dark 

 fuscous spots along posterior part of costa and termen; sometimes 

 some dark suffusion towards tornus and apex : cilia whitish- 

 ochreous, somewhat mixed with fuscous. Hind wings grey; cilia 

 pale whitish-ochreous, with a grey shade. 



Duaringa, Queensland, in September and October; eight speci- 

 mens (Barnard). 



35. Orthoptila, n.g. 



Antennce |, in ^ shortly ciliated, basal joint moderate, without 

 pecten. Labial palpi long, curved, ascending, second joint 

 thickened with appressed scales, slightly rough beneath, terminal 

 shorter than second, acute. Forewings with subdorsal tuft of 

 raised scales before middle; 2 and 3 stalked, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 

 to costa. Hindwings over 1, trapezoidal-ovate, apex obtuse, 

 termen not sinuate, cilia ^; 3 and 4 connate^ 5 somewhat approx- 

 imated to 4, 6 and 7 stalked. 



Allied to early forms of Protolechia, some of which show raised 

 scales corresponding to the subdorsal tuft of Orthojytila, though 

 much less developed; but distinguished from them also by the 

 stalking of 6 and 7 of hindwings. Imago w4th forewings 

 elongate, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded. 



210. 0. abru])tella, Walk. 



(Oecophora ahruptella^ Walk., Tin. 1032; Gelechia triforella^ 

 Zell., Hor. Ross. 1877, 336, pi. iv., 108.) 



(J9- 12-15 mm. Head and thorax white, sides of face and 

 collar dark fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous, terminal joint white 

 with incomplete dark fuscous subapical ring. Antennae white 

 ringed with fuscous. Abdomen pale ochreous-j^ellowish. Legs 

 dark fuscous mixed with whitish and partially suffused with 

 yellowish, posterior pair pale ochreous-yellowish. Forewings 

 moderate, costa gently arched; ochreous-brown, irrorated with 

 dark fuscous or blackish; a moderate white basal patch, outer 



