218 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 



to two-fifths of inner margin, straight, moderately oblique, rather 

 broad and strongly marked, black ; second line from about five- 

 sixths of costa nearly to anal angle, rather slender, black, bordered 

 externally with whitish, angulated sharply inwards below costa, 

 and again obtusely at £ above inner [margin ; an irregularly 

 crescentic black spot on disc at f, a little below costa, beneath 

 which the dark scales of ground-colour form an obsolete dark 

 shade, resting on inner margin : cilia pale fuscous-grey, 

 indistinctly shaded with darker. Hind-wings almost wholly 

 transparent, suffused with pale-grey posteriorly ; hind-margin 

 very narrowly clouded with darker fuscous-grey ; cilia pale grey, 

 darker round apex, with cloudy darker parting-line. 



The male being unknown, the'species may not perhaps be a true 

 Nephopteryx. It is intermediate in breath of wing between 

 stenopterella and opimella, and cannot possibly be confused with 

 either; stenopterella has straight porrected palpi, and opimella 

 yellow hind- wings. 



One female taken at light at Wollongong in the beginning 

 of October. 



Nepli. infusella, n. sp. 



8£". $ . Head pale grey. Palpi hardly longer than head, 

 curved, ascending, terminal joint slender, whitish, mixed with 

 fuscous-grey. Antennae grey. Thorax pale slaty-grey, darker 

 on back, with a few black scales. Abdomen whitish ochreous, 

 base of segments pale grey. Legs ochreous-whitish, finely 

 irrorated with fuscous, all tibiae with an indistinct oblique 

 blackish band, in anterior pair above, in middle and posterior 

 pair below the middle ; tarsi black, with broad ochreous-whitish 

 rings at apex of joints. Fore-wings elongate, narrow, gradually 

 dilated, costa rounded before obtuse apex, hind-margin rounded, 

 oblique ; pale slaty-grey, irregularly thinly irrorated with blackish 

 scales ; a rather broad outwardly curved central transverse band 

 of blackish scales, internally obscurely bordered on disc with 



