418 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, XVIIL, 



black, with a white apical band, terminal joint with two dark 

 fuscous rings. Antennae white ringed with fuscous. Abdomen 

 whitish. Legs white, banded with dark fuscous irroration. 

 Forewings with costa gently arched, apex tolerably obtuse, 

 termen very obliquely rounded; whitish, irregularly sprinkled 

 with fuscous and dark fuscous; a narrow irregular dark fuscous 

 fascia from costa at 4, not reaching dorsum; a triangular dark 

 fuscous blotch from costa about middle, reaching | across wing; 

 some scattered blackish scales in disc posteriorly, indicating 

 second discal stigma, and towards apex, and some fuscous suffu- 

 sion towards apex and termen : cilia light fuscous sprinkled with 

 whitish, with undefined dark median shade. Hindwings with 6 

 and 7 stalked; whitish-grey, thinly scaled and semitransparent, 

 darker posteriorly; cilia ochreous-whitish. 



Broken Hill, New South Wales, in October; one specimen in 

 Mr. Lower's collection. 



246. A. epiula, n.sp. 



(J. 14 mm. Head and thorax fuscous-whitish. Palpi dark 

 fuscous, apex whitish. Antennae whitish ringed with fuscous. 

 Abdomen light fuscous, anal tuft whitish. Legs dark fuscous, 

 irrorated with whitish (posterior pair broken). Forewings with 

 costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded; 

 fuscous, irrorated and towards costa broadly suffused with white, 

 with a few scattered dark fuscous scales; some indistinct oblique 

 dark marks on costa; an elongate semi-oval blackish-fuscous spot 

 along costa in middle; an elongate blackish-fuscous spot in middle 

 of disc ; a dark fuscous dot in disc at | : cilia pale fuscous 

 sprinkled with whitish. Hindwings with 6 and 7 separate; 

 whitish-fuscous, paler and semitransparent anteriorly; cilia pale 

 whitish-ochreous. 



Sydney, New South Wales, in October; one specimen. 



50. Deuteroptila, n.g. 



Antennae 4, in $ simple, basal joint moderately elongate, with- 

 out pecten. Labial palpi very long, recurved, second joint with 

 large projecting median and smaller apical tufts beneath, terminal 



