238 DESCKIPTIOXS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEriDOPTEEA, 



Having only the male of this species, I cannot positively assert 

 that it is not the other sex of the preceding, to which it bears 

 considerable general resemblance. Many of the differences might 

 be merely sexual, but the differently shaped, not angulated, first 

 line is probably a reliable specific distinction. 



Two males taken by Mr. G. H. Eaynor near Hobart Town, 

 Tasmania, in January. 



Aph. latro, Z., %. b. V. 1873, 213. 



16"-16y. <$ $ . Head, palpi, and thorax pale greyish-ochreous ; 

 palpi sprinkled on sides with fuscous, in male short, almost concealed 

 in frontal cone, in female long, attenuated, porrected. Antennse 

 pale greyish-ochreous, slenderly annulated with dark fuscous, 

 basal joint in male with a very short tooth of scales. Abdomen 

 elongate, pale greyish-ochreous, in female with long projecting 

 ovipositor. Legs pale greyish-ochreous, anterior and middle pair 

 strongly irrorated with dark fuscous, all tarsi fuscous-black, with 

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

 parallel-sided, posteriorly narrowed, costa gently arched, apex 

 rounded, hind-margin very oblique ; greyish-ochreous, greyer 

 between veins, irregularly sprinkled with black scales ; in male 

 a pale whitish-ochreous straight slender central streak from base 

 to apex, becoming obsolete at extremity, margined beneath by a 

 cloudy blackish-fuscous streak, darkest from base to f , thence 

 indistinct ; in female the pale streak is imperceptible, but the 

 dark streak is clearly marked ; in male some of the veins are 

 almost whitish-ochreous ; a hind-marginal row of numerous small 

 black dots : cilia pale greyish-ochreous, tinged with rufous, with 

 indistinct parting-line near base. Hind- wings much broader 

 than fore-wings, yet elongate, flatly rounded, broadly indented 

 below apex ; whitish, almost transparent, in male narrowly, in 

 female more broadly suffused with smoky-grey towards apex ; 

 hind-marginal line dark grey : cilia white, with faint greyish 

 parting-line. 



