170 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO -LEPIDOPTERA, 



costa, cell closed, 1 simple. Hind-wings without cell ; median 

 three-branclied, 1 branch, to costa. 



There appears to be but one species known in this genus, 

 occurring throughout Europe and in North America, as well as 

 Australia. The imago rests with the fore-part somewhat raised, 

 but the fore-legs retracted beneath the body. The larva is 

 sixteen-legged, and mines flat blotches in leaves. The pupa is 

 naked and angulated, suspended from a leaf. 



Bed. somnulentella, Z. 



$ $ . 3V-4". Head and palpi whitish-ochreous mixed with 

 fuscous. Antennae dark fuscous. Thorax whitish-ochreous, in 

 front brownish-grey. Abdomen fuscous-grey, anal tuft ochreous. 

 Legs whitish-ochreous. Fore-wings pale dull-ochreous, suffused 

 and irrorated with brownish-grey, except on a streak along inner- 

 margin ; costal cilia sharply ochreous-whitish, the rest grey, 

 irrorated with darker at apex. Hind-wings and cilia grey. 



The description is from Australian specimens, which do not 

 appear to differ specifically from the English. I have not however 

 observed the larva in this country as yet ; elsewhere it mines the 

 leaves of Convolvulus and Ipomcea. It hardly seems a very likely 

 species to have been introduced artificially, but it does not now 

 seem easy to decide ; it is not confined to the near neighbourhood 

 of civilisation, and there are many native species of Ij^omoea. 

 Taken commonly in particular localities at Sydney and Parramatta 

 and amongst the dense forest growth on the descent of the Bulli 

 Pass, where it is especially abundant. 



Arctocoma, n. g. 

 Head roughly haired above, face smooth ; no ocelli ; tongue 

 short. Antennae rather shorter than fore-wings, filiform, basal 

 joint somewhat thickened. No maxillary palpi. Labial palpi 

 very short, drooping. Fore-wings elongate-lanceolate, rather 

 broad comparatively. Hind-wings lanceolate, ^ of fore-wings, 



