244 DESCRIPTIONS OF ATTSTRALIAN MICRO -LEPIDOPTERA, 



Glyph, acrotliecta, n. S2). 

 ^. 4^"-5". Head and thorax dark bronzy-grey. Palpi 

 white at base, second joint with two short oblique whorls of 

 black white-tipped scales, terminal joint black with two oblique 

 white rings and white above towards apex. Antennee dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen elongate, blackish-grey with white rings, 

 apex white. Legs dark fuscous, posterior and middle tibiae with 

 white central and apical bands, tarsi with obsolete whitish rings 

 at apex of joints, posterior tarsi with a clear white ring at apex 

 of basal joint, and two apical joints wholly white. Fore-wings 

 narrow, elongate, not dilated, hind-margin sinuate beneath apex ; 

 dull pale grey, suffused with brownish on disc and inner margin ; 

 six rather obscure white, anteriorly blackish-margined, oblique 

 costal streaks ; first at i, reaching to middle, partially black- 

 margined ]30steriorly as well ; second in middle, not reaching 

 half across w ing ; third to sixth short, mostly on costal cilia, 

 each silvery-metallic at apex ; a black oblique streak from middle 

 of inner margin, leading to an obscure whitish anteriorly black- 

 margined spot below apex of first costal streak ; a faint whitish 

 spot on anal angle, i^receded by a short curved black streak ; 

 two silvery-metallic spots on disc, beneath extremities of second 

 and third costal streaks, sometimes united with them ; a rather 

 large conical silver^'-metallic black-margined spot on hind-margin 

 below middle ; a -small silvery-metallic black-margined spot on 

 hind-margin below apex; cilia whitish, with a sharp black 

 apical hook, fuscous-grey towards anal angle, basal half separated 

 by a black line and fuscous-grey, except where a whitish black- 

 margined indentation meets the small silvery-metallic sub-apical 

 spot. Hind-wings and cilia dark fuscous-gre}^ 



Not nearly allied to any described species ; the markings have 

 a peculiar confused appearance ; the black dorsal streak from 

 centre of inner margin is caused by the suffusion and 

 disappearance of the accompanying white streak. Six ^'s 



