176 STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN MICROLKPIDOPTERA, 



white spot in centre; tuft whitish. Legs grey, with whitish 

 annulations. Forewings ochreous-grey, with white streaks; a 

 rather ill-defined dorsal streak, incised near base, broad towards 

 base, towards tornus narrow or interrupted; three short oblique 

 costal streaks from J, ^, and f ; three oblique dorsal streaks, first 

 from inid-dorsiim, sometimes meeting first costal streak, second 

 obscurely double from f, third from near tornus; a silvery trans- 

 verse streak from costa slightly beyond third streak to tornus; a 

 short blackish longitudinal line in apical part of disc; a white 

 spot on tornus; a dark fuscous line around apical portion of costa 

 and termen; cilia white, apices fuscous opposite apex, on dorsum 

 grey. Hind wings and cilia grey. Type in Coll. Turner. 



Q.: Brisbane, in December and February, bred abundantly 

 from the seed-capsules of Phyllanthus Ferdinandi. The larvae 

 feed on the seeds, and the imagines are found in the ripe capsules, 

 many days before they are liberated by the dehiscence of the 

 fruit. They are victimised by two species of hymenoptera, one 

 reddish and the other blackish, and these do not wait for dehis- 

 cence, but escape by boring their way through the capsules. 



EPICKPHALA LOMATOGRAPHA, n.sp. [Aa)//,aToy/ou.</>os, marginally 

 inscribed]. 



(j£. 9-10 mm. Head and palpi white; external surface of 

 labial palpi grey. Antennae grey. Thorax grey, with a large 

 central white spot. Abdomen grey. Legs white annulated with 

 grey. Forewings ochreous-grey, with white markings; a streak 

 along dorsum, broad at base, becoming very narrow towards 

 tornus, its upper edge irregularly excavated; costal streaks very 

 short, dot-like, at J, J, and §; a double oblique streak from costa 

 at £ to termen; followed by a suffused fuscous spot; a white spot 

 on tornus; a dark fuscous line around apical portion of costa and 

 termen; cilia white, apices fuscous, on dorsum grey. Hindwings 

 grey; in <J with narrow dark fuscous streaks on costa to middle 

 and on dorsum to J. 



Distinguished by the very short costal streaks, the absence of 

 the first dorsal streak, and especially by the dark fuscous streaks 

 on hindwing of <J. Type in Coll. Turner. 



