408 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTKRA, XVIII., 



points, with some scattered black scales; stigmata represented by 

 round spots of dark fuscous or blackish suffusion, often very 

 indefinite, plical sometimes obsolete, slightly beyond first discal, 

 second discal larger and usually better marked, often with an 

 adjacent whitish-ochreous spot beneath it; usually a dark fuscous 

 costal suffusion above this : cilia light brown or fuscous, strewn 

 with whitish points, base sometimes barred with whitish-ochreous 

 or ochreous-yellowish. Hindwings grey or dark grey; cilia pale 

 greyish or fuscous, sometimes suffused with ochreous-whitish or 

 yellowish at base and towards tornus. 



Sydney and Blackheath (3500 feet). New South Wales, in 

 August, November, and February; four specimens. 



43. Styloceros, n.g. 



Antennae nearly 1, in ^J stout, simple, basal joint moderately 

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

 joint thickened with appressed scales, somewhat rough towards 

 apex beneath, terminal joint as long as second or shorter, acute. 

 Forewings : 2 and 3 connate or stalked or coincident, 7 and 8 

 stalked, 7 to apex, 9 sometimes out of 7. Hindwings over 1, 

 trapezoidal, apex obtuse, termen hardly sinuate, cilia J; 3 and 4 

 connate or stalked, 5 absent, 6 and 7 stalked. 



Type >S^. cyclonitis. A derivative from early forms of Protolechia, 

 with near collateral relationship to Macrotona. Imago with fore- 

 wings moderate, apex obtuse. 



1. Thorax with whitish subdorsal stripes 235. cyclonitis, 



Thorax without whitish stripes 2. 



2. Forewings with whitish-ochreous posterior costal spot. 233. trigonias, 

 Forewings without such spot. 234. lychnocentra. 



233. S. trigonias, n.sp. 



(J. 16mm. Head rather dark bronzy-fuscous, face and centre of 

 crown whitish-ochreous. Palpi whitish-ochreous, second joint fus- 

 cous towards base. Antennae whitish-ochreous. Thorax bronzy- 

 fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs dark fuscous, partially 

 suffused with whitish-ochreous. Forewings with costa moderately 



