172 DESCEIPIIONS OF AUSTEALIAN MICEO-LEPIDOPTEEA, 



Callionyma, n. g. 



Call, sarcodes, n. sp. 



^ 7f", ? 9^". Head, palpi, and thorax grey- whitish, more 

 or less tinged with pale carmine ; sides of frontal cone in male 

 dark grey. Antennae whitish, annulated with grey, basal joint 

 carmine-tinged. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs grey-whitish, 

 slightly carmine-tinged, anterior and middle pair fuscous-grey 

 beneath, tarsal joints fuscous-grey except at apex. Forewings 

 somewhat oblong, rather broad, costa gently arched, apex acute, 

 hindmargin nearly straight, slightly sinuate, oblique ; dull 

 ochreous-grey-whitish, in female slightly, in male strongly 

 suffused with light brownish-carmine ; extreme costal edge darker 

 brownish-carmine ; a very indistinct irregular somewhat outwardly 

 curved brownish-carmine tranverse line from one-third of costa 

 to two-fifths of inner margin ; a similar line from two-thirds of 

 costa to four-fifths of inner margin, irregularly bent outwards in 

 middle ; a small indistinct fuscous carmine spot in disc beyond 

 middle ; a strongly-marked broad cloudy blackish hindmarginal 

 line ; cilia pale ochreous-carmine, with a deep carmine basal line. 

 Hindwings in male light fuscous-grey, in female whitish-grey, 

 with a dark grey hindmarginal line ; cilia grey-whitish, with a 

 faint grey line near base. 



A very distinct and elegant species. 



One pair beaten from Eucalyptus bushes in November, the male 

 at Parramatta, the female at Murrurundi, New South "Wales. 



TORTEICID^. 

 Peoselena, Meyr. 

 Pros, camacinana, n. sp. 

 ^ ? . 5"-6". Head, palpi, and thorax in male yellowish- whitish, 

 in female whitish-ochreous, somewhat mixed with dark fuscous- 

 grey. Antennae dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous-grey. 

 Anterior and middle tibise blackish, with ochreous-whitish median 

 and apical rings, tarsi blackish with whitish rings at apex of joints ; 



