154 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



with slender ring near base. Antennse longer than fore- wings, 

 pale ochreous-brown, darker towards apex, basal joint yellow in 

 front, crimson above. Thorax crimson, with a white central streak. 

 Abdoman dark fuscous, at base ochreous, beneath white. Legs 

 whitish ; anterior tibi?e crimson, apex suffused with dark fuscous, 

 middle tibiae somewhat thickened, almost tufted at apex, crimson 

 with j^ellow basal and median bands, all tarsi with dark fuscous 

 rings at apex of joints. Fore-wings crimson, paler and partially 

 suffused with yellow along costa, especially beyond middle, with 

 a basal streak, six costal and four dorsal streaks, and a spot on 

 fold white, partially suffused with yellow ; basal streak very short, 

 irregular, dark-margined, its extremity produced through centre 

 of wing to middle as a dark fuscous line ; first and second costal 

 streaks irregular, very oblique, white, not margined; third 

 elongate-triangular, very oblique, not margined ; fourth irregular 

 black margined ; fifth short, less oblique, strongly black margined, 

 the black margins continued to anal ; costal space between fourth 

 and fifth yellwish- white ; sixth short, black margined, not oblique, 

 black margins produced to hind-margin and diverging; first 

 dorsal spot at base, very small ; second small, opposite first costal, 

 obtuse-triangular, white, black edged in front on inner-margin ; 

 third before middle, yellow, very broad on inner-margin, very 

 much contracted on fold and proceeding as a very oblique white 

 dark-margined streak to disc ; fourth yellow, very broad on inner- 

 margin, extending from middle to anal angle, obtuse-triangular, 

 apex dark-margined ; a round white spot on fold between second 

 and third, not touching either ; hind-margin suffused with dark 

 fuscous except within the two pairs of dark streaks from costa ; 

 apical spot round, black ; cilia crimson at apex, yellow on hind- 

 margin, thence dark fuscous, with a crimson subapical hook. 

 Hind-wings and cilia dark grey. 



Stainton's description clearly includes both this insect and the 

 succeeding species, which is very closely allied to it ; they are 

 however certainly distinct. His figure seems to be taken from a 



