426 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, XVIII., 



joint dark fuscous. Antennse grey. Abdomen grey, basal half 

 yellow-ochreous. Legs dark grey ringed with whitish, hairs of 

 posterior tibiae whitish. Forewings narrow, costa slightly arched, 

 apex acute, termen extremely obliquely rounded; white, tinged 

 with ochreous and sprinkled with blackish-grey; plical stigma 

 dash-like, undefined, blackish, very obliquely before first discal, 

 discal stigmata dot-like, blackish, indistinct : cilia whitish, with 

 two undefined greyish-ochreous shades. Hindwings grey; cilia 

 ochreous-whitish, towards base fuscous- tinged. 



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

 (Lower). This and the three preceding species and iV. cycno- 

 hathra are nearly related, and the fact that they all occur in the 

 same locality at the same season certainly raises suspicions of 

 their specific distinctness; but Mr. Lower, who takes some of 

 them pretty freely, expresses no doubt of their being good species; 

 the distinctions are clear enough, provided they are constant. 



258. N. mylicotis, n.sp. 



9. 16 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi white, second joint 

 fuscous except apex, tuft long. Antennae light grey. Thorax 

 pale whitish-ochreous. Abdomen light shining ochreous-grey, 

 basal third ochreous-yellow. Legs grey, hairs of posterior tibiae 

 whitish. Forewings narrow, costa slightly arched, apex almost 

 acute, termen extremely obliquel}' rounded; 6 out of 7; greyish- 

 ochreous, much mixed with whitish; stigmata oval, undefined, 

 darker, plical very obliquely before first discal; some dark fuscous 

 scales at apex and on upper part of termen : cilia pale-brownish- 

 ochreous with whitish median and apical lines darker-edged 

 anteriorly. Hindwings light fuscous, darker posteriorly; cilia 

 whitish-ochreous, tips more whitish. 



Adelaide, South Australia, in September and October; one 



specimen (Lower). 



259. N. cycnohathra, Low. 



{Paltodora cycnohathra^ Low., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 1898, 50.) 



(J. 17. mm. Head and thorax white, slightly ochreous-tinged. 

 Palpi white, second joint fuscous except apex, tuft long. An- 



