152 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



bronze. Abdomen very dark purplisli-fuscous. Legs coppery- 

 bronze, tarsi bronzy-fuscous, paler towards base of joints, middle 

 tibise hardly thickened. Fore-wings bright metallic coppery- 

 bronze, with two small yellowish-white spots ; first on inner- 

 margin beyond middle, narrow, curved, parallel-sided, not reaching 

 middle of disc ; second on costa before apex, wedge-shaped, 

 outwardly curved, reaching half across wing ; cilia dark fuscous, 

 with indistinct blackish lines round apex. Hind- wings dark 

 fuscous, cilia rather paler. 



A brilliant insect, somewhat aUied to the group of auroguttella, 

 Stph. One specimen taken in March with a lamp amongst the 

 reedbeds in the creek at Parramatta. 



Grac. ethela, n. sp. 



^ $ . 5V-5f". Head yellow on crown, crimson behind, face 

 snow-white with a pale crimson-pink spot on each side. Maxillary 

 palpi white, lower f externally pale crimson. Labial palpi white, 

 second joint externally crimson, beneath fringed with a few loose 

 hairs. Antennae much longer than fore-wings, pale greyish- 

 ochreous, basal joint yellow. Thorax yellow, anterior margin 

 broadly crimson, and with a small crimson spot behind. Abdomen 

 pale greyish-ochreous. Legs yellowish- white, tarsi with very 

 slender blackish rings at apex of joints, anterior and middle tibiae 

 slightly thickened, crimson-fuscous at apex and with two slender 

 dark fuscous rings. Fore-wings pale yello\^, deeper along inner 

 margin, with a bright crimson irregular- edged undulating central 

 streak from base to apex, connected with inner margin by four 

 perpendicular half -fasciae, one close to base, the others at I, I, 

 and f , and expanding abruptly at apex into a large apical spot ; 

 at the base this streak reaches costa, and at i from base is again 

 connected with it by a perpendicular spot ; beyond this on costa 

 are two small crimson strigulae ; central streak in parts margined 

 above with black ; parallel to its upper edge, and immediately 

 above it, is a waved, black, longitudinal line, extending from 



