234 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 



Aner. psamathetta, n. sp. 



9^-". <$ . Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi tlirice as long as 

 head, roughly- scaled, horizontally porrected, whitish-ochreous, 

 mixed on sides with dark fuscous. Antenna) whitish-ochreous, 

 thickened, subdentate, finely ciliated, rather strongly sinuate 

 above basal joint. Thorax whitish-ochreous, irrorated with 

 darker. Abdomen whitish- ochreous. Legs greyish-oclireous, 

 tarsi mixed with dark fuscous. Fore-wings elongate, moderately 

 narrow, costa markedly arched, apex rounded, hind-margin very 

 oblique ; greyish-ochreous, becoming much paler along inner- 

 margin ; all veins broadly indicated with ochreous- whitish ; a 

 few large black scales tending to form a transverse row a little 

 before hind-margin, and two or three other scattered black scales 

 towards inner-margin and base ; a row of nearly obsolete cloudy 

 fuscous dots on hind-margin ; cilia ochreous-whitish, tips mixed 

 with dark fuscous. Hind- wings fuscous-grey, slightly paler near 

 base ; cilia whitish, with faint grey parting-line. 



One male taken at Sydney in December. 



Ephestia, Gn. 



Epli. ficulella, Barrett. 



This species, closely allied to E. elutella, and until recently 

 confused with it, is larger and darker than elutella, with the fore- 

 wings narrower at base and the costa posteriorly more rounded, 

 and the hind-wiugs possess only one tuft of yellow scales on the 

 upper surface in male, whilst elutella has two. I have taken it 

 in great profusion in a chemist's shop in Sydney in September, 

 but could not discover on what the larva had fed ; it usually lives 

 on figs and other dried fruits. The specimens are mostly larger 

 and finer than my English ones, and show distinctly the reddish- 

 ochreous longitudinal dashes towards the fold, but do not 

 specifically differ. 



