220 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPLDOPTEIIA. 



analogous to that which occurs amongst the European species. 

 Thus opimella closely resembles in form the short-winged European 

 vacciniella, Z. ; eura/phella and infusella have the general figure of 

 gcnistella, Dup. ; whilst the narrow-winged stenopterella and 

 fornacella bear much similarity to Metzneri, Z., to which indeed 

 stenopterella seems rather nearly allied. 



Pempelia, Hb. 

 Pemp. melanostjjla, n. sp. 



10". ?. Head grey-whitish, mixed with darker. Palpi hardly 

 longer than head, obliquely ascending, terminal joint horizontal ; 

 whitish above, blackish beneath. Antennae filiform, blackish. 

 Thorax whitish-grey, coarsely irrorated with blackish. Abdomen 

 dark iridescent grey ; sides, apical rings of segments, and anal 

 tuft pearly whitish. Legs whitish ; anterior pair, and all tarsi 

 blackish, with pale rings at apex of joints. Eore-wings elongate, 

 moderately broad, gradually dilated, costa hardly arched, hind- 

 margin rather oblique, slightly rounded ; grey whitish, coarsely 

 irrorated with black scales, partially confluent over disc ; first 

 line strong, black, somewhat clouded, from two-fifths of costa to 

 two-fifths of inner margin, indistinctly waved, hardly curved 

 beneath costa, ending on inner margin in a small sub-quadrate 

 black spot, the lower angle of which is produced along inner 

 margin nearly to base as a strong black streak : second line 

 hardly perceptible, waved, blackish, obsolete ; a row of large 

 black dots on hind-margin ; cilia dark fuscous-grey, tips and a 

 parting-line grey-whitish. Hind-wings sub-hyaline, whitish ; 

 hind-marginal line slender, black : cilia whitish, with dark grey 

 parting-line. 



Not near to any other species ; the well- characterised first line 

 readily distinguishes it from the rest of the genus. 



One female taken at light at Parramatta, by Mr. Gr. H. Kay nor, 

 in September. 



