260 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTBRA, 



grey, tibiae darker grey. Fore-wings dull wMtish, with, ochreous 

 and dark fuscous markings ; a small oblique cloudy dark fuscous 

 blotch on costa before i, and a rather larger oblique dark 

 fuscous blotch from costa slightly before middle, reaching ^ 

 across wing ; between second blotch and base the costa is 

 slenderly dark fuscous ; a much broader oblique dark blotch on 

 costa above f , suffusedly truncate and reaching only ^ across 

 wing ; two or three small irregular blackish-fuscous spots on 

 inner margin near base ; a cloudy dull ochreous streak along 

 fold, extending to anal angle where it is expanded into a cloudy 

 ochreous blotch, partially uniting with third costal blotch ; hind- 

 margin irregularly dark fuscous ; a small linear blackish apical 

 spot ; cilia whitish- ochreous, towards anal angle grey- whitish, 

 with a darker dividing line. Hind- wings and cilia rather pale 

 fuscous-grey, with a roundish black thickened spot of dense 

 scales (in (^ only ?) in disc close to base, visible on both surfaces, 

 on lower surface forming a raised hooked projection. 



Distinguished from both its congeners by the cloudy dark 

 fuscous markings ; it has somewhat the superficial appearance 

 of a Buccidatrix. Three ^ 's ta]^en amongst dry scrub at Sydney 

 and Brisbane, in September, October, and April. 



Ereun. iuloptera, n. sp. 



S ? • 4"-5". Head and palpi white, labial palpi entirely 

 clothed with dense rough hairs, on sides mixed with ochreous- 

 fuscous. Antennae ochreous-whitish, slenderly annulated with 

 black. Thorax white, anteriorly suffused with ochreous. 

 Abdomen elongate, whitish-ochreous. Legs whitish- ochreous, 

 anteiior tibiae dark fuscous, middle tibiae with dark fuscous 

 central and apical rings, all tarsi with dark fuscous rings at base 

 of joints. Fore-^ngs whitish, irrorated and iiTegularly suffused 

 with pale ochreous, with indistinct cloudy ochreous markings ; a 

 roundish spot at base of costa ; an oblique fascia-like spot from 

 \ of inner margin, reaching more than half across wing, mixed 



