148 DESCRIPTIOXS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTEBA, 



tMckened, blackish with, broad white median band, tarsi white 

 with two dark fuscous bands ; posterior tibia) dark fuscous with 

 narrow basal and broad median white bands, tarsi white with 

 four dark fuscous bands. Fore-wings deep ochreous-grey, with 

 three straight fasciae and two spots snow-white, black margined ; 

 base narrowly white ; first fascia very broad, almost as broad on 

 costa as on inner margin, outer edge irregular ; second fascia less 

 broad, not oblique, irregular-margined, rather broadest on inner 

 margin ; third oblique, very broad on inner margin, very narrow 

 on costa, strongly contracted below costa, rarely interrupted, but 

 if so, costal spot minute, dorsal very large ; a small costal sj^ot 

 before apex, indistinctly obliquely produced to hind-margin, 

 sometimes obscured with black scales ; an ovate apical spot, 

 extending into cilia ; cilia whitish round apex, with a black line, 

 thence fuscous-grey. Hind-wings fuscous-grey, cilia paler. 



Differs from tricuneatella, especially by the white thorax ; very 

 closely allied to the succeeding cmnotheta, easiest distinguished by 

 the white basal joint of antennae and different shape of fasciae. 

 Frequents dry scrub ; the larva is no doubt attached to one of the 

 ProteacecB, probably to a Banlcsia ; the food plant oi ccenotheta does 

 not grow where this species has been taken. Scarce ; in the bush 

 near Sydney, in February and March. 



Grac. caenotheta, n. sp. 



^ $ . 3y'-4". Head and palpi snow-white, terminal joint of 

 labial palpi with slender, black, basal and sub-apical rings. 

 Antennae longer than fore-wings, grey-whitish towards base, 

 becoming bark fuscous towards apex, basal joint black. Thorax 

 white, anterior margin narrowly black. Abdomen blackish, anus 

 white, beneath with white rings. Anterior tibiae black, with 

 indistinct basal and median whitish rings, tarsi white with two 

 black bands ; middle tibiae somewhat thickened, black with broad 

 median white band, tarsi white with two black bands ; posterior 

 tibiae black with narrow basal and broad median white bands, 



