424 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, XVIII., 



254. i\^. tetrachroa, Low. 



{Paltodora tetrachroa, Low., Proc. Linn. 8oc. N. S. Wales, 1898, 

 49.) 



(J9. 12-14 mm. Head light grey, face whitish. Palpi white, 

 second joint ochreous mixed with fuscous except towards apex, 

 tuft long. Antennae grey. Thorax light grey, with ochreous 

 lateral stripes. Abdomen grey, basal third yellow-ochreous. 

 Legs dark grey ringed with whitish, hairs of posterior tibiae 

 whitish. Forewings narrow, costa slightly arched, apex almost 

 acute, termen extremely obliquely rounded; pale reddish-ochreous; 

 dorsal half of wing and a streak along posterior half of costa 

 fuscous sprinkled with white; stigmata large, deep ferruginous, 

 plical very obliquely before first discal, connected with base by 

 an undefined streak; an indistinct angulated whitish subterminal 

 line : cilia light fuscous with median and apical whitish lines 

 preceded by dark grey shades, base mixed with white and deep 

 ferruginous. Hindwings grey, darker posteriorly; cilia whitish- 

 fuscous. 



Broken Hill, New South Wales, in October; two specimens 

 (Lower). 



255. iV^. ochroloma, Low. 



{Yj^solophus ochroloma, Low., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. 1901, 

 80.) 



(J. 16 mm. Head white, crown ochreous-tinged. Palpi white, 

 second joint fuscous except apex, tuft long, apex of terminal 

 joint grey. Antennae dark gvey. Thorax dark grey mixed with 

 whitish, patagia ochreous. Abdomen grey, basal third ochreous- 

 yellow. Legs dark grey, hairs of posterior tibiae ochreous-whitish. 

 Forewings narrow, costa slightty arched, apex almost acute, ter- 

 men extremely obliquely rounded; dark grey, much mixed and 

 suJBFused with whitish, especially between veins; plical stigma 

 represented by an elongate black dash reaching nearly to base, 

 margined beneath by a ferruginous-ochreous streak dilated 

 anteriorly and reaching base of dorsum; discal stigmata rather 

 elongate, blackish, placed in a line with extremity of plical; an 



