BY E. MEYRICK, B.A. 159 



Antennae not longer than fore-wings, white, annnlated with dark 

 fuscous. Thorax white, lateral margins ochreous. Abdomen 

 pale greyish-ochreous, beneath white. Legs white, anterior and 

 middle tibiae hardly thickened, blackish with three white rings, 

 all tarsi with blackish rings at apex of joints. Fore- wings varying 

 from pale clear ochreous to greyish-ochreous, with a basal streak, 

 five costal and three dorsal streaks white ; basal streak rather 

 short, rather slender, not margined, sometimes connected at its 

 middle with costa ; first costal streak at I, second at ^, both long, 

 slender, oblique, dark-margined ; third rather less oblique, dark- 

 margined, more or less perfectly uniting with third dorsal streak 

 from anal angle ; fourth costal from before apex to middle of 

 hind-margin, continued into cilia, dark-margined ; first dorsal 

 slightly beyond first costal, rather long, very oblique, dark- 

 margined above, produced along inner-margin as a white 

 unmargined streak to base ; second dorsal rather thick, irregular, 

 its apex swollen, dark-margined, very oblique ; a small white 

 apical spot, continued above into cilia, enclosing the small linear- 

 ovate black apical dot; cilia greyish-ochreous round apex, 

 extremities white, beneath apex whitish. Hind- wings and cilia 

 whitish-grey. 



This species belongs to the group oipavoniella, Z., but is readily 

 known by its pale ground colour, which gives it much the appear- 

 ance of some species of Lithocolletis. Where its foodplant grows, 

 the imago may be taken in great profusion, flying out in swarms 

 when the bush is shaken ; it occurs principally on coast sand- 

 hills, at Sydney and Newcastle, New South Wales, from September 

 to January, and in May. 



Larva slightly tapering posteriorly, very pale whitish-green, 

 yellowish-tinged on back; head very pale whitish-brown. It 

 mines the leaves of Leptospermum Icevigatum fMyrtacecBj, forming 

 a blotch which occupies the whole of the small leaf, both surfaces 

 being much inflated, in January (and no doubt at other times). 

 Pupa outside the mine, in a firm white cocoon beneath a folded 



