428 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, XVIII., 



fuscous; a rather broad white longitudinal streak above middle 

 from base to apex, posteriorly suffusedly dilated to reach costa, 

 lower edge with irregular blackish indentations before and 

 beyond middle, first triangular, second rounded, representing 

 discal stigmata; plical stigmata elongate, suffused, blackish, very 

 obliquely before first discal; a rather broad dorsal streak of white 

 suffusion from base to tornus, sometimes little marked : cilia 

 white, mixed with fuscous and dark fuscous. Hindwings grey; 

 cilia light grey. 



Sydney, Blackheath (3500 feet), Mittagong, and Bathurst, 

 New South Wales; Melbourne, Victoria; in March, common 

 where it occurs; sixteen specimens. 



53. Streniastis, n.g. 



Antennae f, in ^ serrulate, shortly ciliated, basal joint moder- 

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

 second joint with extremely long projecting tuft of scales beneath, 

 terminal joint as long as second, acute. Forewings : 2 widely 

 remote, from about 4 of cell, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa. Hind- 

 wings 1, trapezoidal, apex round-pointed, term en sinuate, oblique, 

 cilia H; 3 and 4 connate, 5 somewhat approximated to 4, 6 and 

 7 parallel. 



Correlated to Kothris, from which it differs essentially by the 

 parallelism of 6 and 7 of hindwings. Imago with forewings 

 elongate. 



262. S. thermaea, Low. 



(Paltodora therinaea, Low., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1897, 

 27L) 



^O. 16-17 mm. Head and thorax tawny-ochreous. Palpi 

 ferruginous, terminal joint and apex of second ochreous-whitish. 

 Antennae whitish-ochreous ringed with fuscous, towards apex 

 forming two or three narrow bands. Abdomen yellow-ochreous, 

 with dark fuscous subbasal band. Legs tawny-ochreous, tibiae 

 and tarsi somewhat infuscated. Forewings narrow, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen extremely obliquely rounded; orange- 



