162 descbiptio:n^s of Australian miceo-lepidoptera, 



sometimes very slightly, sometimes second joint entirely fuscous 

 externally ; abdomen sometimes faintly inf uscated, anal tuft 

 pure white ; legs dark fuscous beneath, posterior tibiae sometimes 

 slightly infuscated above. Forewings moderately broarl, costa 

 arched, more strongly towards apex, hindmargin strou^jly rounded, 

 moderately oblique; snow-white, slightly shining. Hiu-iwings 

 snow-white, slightly shining. Forewings beneath in male 

 moderately infuscated, in female nearly white. 



Amongst described species this seems to come nearest to Scirp. 

 virginea, 7i.^ from South Africa, from which it appears to differ 

 principally by the legs being white above and dark fuscous below, 

 and by the infuscated under-surface of the forewings ; but I have 

 not seen Zeller's species. The colouring of the palpi seems 

 variable and unreliable. 



Very common round Sydney in March, sitting sluggishly on 

 fhe stems of rushes in swampy places, and also taken at Brisbane 

 in September ; there can be little doubt that the larva feeds in 

 the stems of a Juncus. 



Seirp. ochroleuca, n. sp. 



^ . 10"- 11". Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen and legs 

 white, faintly and unevenly ochreous-tinged ; antennae of male 

 not half as long as forewings ; anal tuft ochreous-whitish ; legs, 

 ochreous-white beneath. Forewings slightly narrower than in 

 S. exsanguis, costa gently arched, hindmargin moderately oblique, 

 strongly rounded ; ochreous-white, becoming pure white towards 

 apex. Hindwings ochreous-white, becoming pure white towards 

 apex. Forewings beneath ochreous-white. 



Certainly distinct from the preceding, though the female is yet 

 unknown ; readily distinguished from it by the wholly ochreous- 

 white legs, and absence of infuscation on lower surface of fore- 

 wings, as well as by the shortei antennae and general ochreous 

 tinge. 



