224 DESCRIPTIOXS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



costa, proceeding from five-sixths of costa obliquely inwards, 

 sharply angulated outwards above middle, then inwards and 

 running straight to anal angle, obscurely edged on both, margins 

 with dark fuscous, its outer margin edged on costa with an oblique 

 short blackish-fuscous wedge-shaped streak reaching apex ; a 

 large black dot in middle of wing before f , placed in a slender 

 longitudinal whitish line ; an obsolete row of blackish hind- 

 marginal spots : cilia pale grey, with three clear darker parting- 

 lines. Hind-wings rather pale fuscous-grey, darker posteriorly, 

 hind-marginal line dark fuscous ; cilia whitish-grey, with darker 

 grey parting-line. 



Closely allied to strigiferella, rufitinctella, and oculiferella, but 

 differing from all (except the much larger female of strigiferella) 

 by its clearly expressed first and second lines, as well as by its 

 small size, and single (not double) discal black dot. The sexes 

 are quite similar in size and appearance. 



One pair taken at light at Parramatta by Mr. Gr. H. Raynor, 

 in December. 



Pemp. apotomella, n. sp. 



8"- 10^-". <$ $. Head whitish-ochreous, almost entirely suffused 

 with brownish-ochreous. Labial palpi rather longer than head, 

 obliquely ascending, whitish-ochreous mixed with brownish. 

 Antennas whitish-ochreous, in male finely ciliated, with a flattened 

 tuft of black scales in basal sinuation, in female slender, simple. 

 Thorax brownish-ochreous posteriorly, shading into dark purple - 

 fuscous anteriorly, sometimes tinged with dull crimson. Abdomen 

 golden-ochreous, paler on sides. Legs rather pale ochreous, 

 anterior pair partially suffused with fuscous. Fore-wings 

 moderately elongate, gradually dilated, costa gently arched, 

 hind-margin oblique, slightly rounded ; pale dull greyish-crimson, 

 suffused between veins with grey scales ; a broad ochreous-whitish 

 costal streak from base to apex, slightly attenuated at each 

 extremity, margined beneath by a broader dark grey-fuscous 



