182 DESCRIPTIONS OF ArSTEALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



Newman's description of this genus is perfectly recognisable, 

 and sufficient for characterisation, although the neuration is 

 omitted. 



The larvae must certainly be attached to species of Eucalyptus, 

 feeding either in the bark or perhaps in the fruit-capsules. 



1. Bond, nigella, Newm. 



{Bondia nigella, Newm., Trans, Ent. Soc, Lonn., Vol. III., 

 N.S., 289). 



$ % . 7^"-8|". Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax blackish, 

 sprinkled thinly with ochreous-grey ; palpi in female rather long. 

 Abdomen light grey. Anterior and middle legs blackish ; 

 posterior legs ochreous-grey-whitish, tarsi suffused with fuscous- 

 grey except at apex of joints. Forewings very narrow, oblong, 

 costa straight, slightly bent at base and apex, apex round pointed, 

 hindmargin almost straight, very oblique ; blackish, with a few 

 fine scattered ochreous-whitish scales ; numerous scattered tufts 

 of raised scales ; posterior half of costa with faintly indicated 

 strigulse ; a C-shaped whitish-ochreous or pale yellowish-ochreous 

 transverse mark in disc at three-fifths, extremities directed 

 outwards : cilia blackish. Hindwings and cilia in male pale grey, 

 in female somewhat darker. 



Easily distinguished from all the others by the pale ochreous 

 C-shaped mark in disc. 



Taken near Sydney in July and September, and also received 

 from Victoria. 



2. Bond, dissolutana, n. sp. 



S 6|"-9", ? 8f"-10". Head, palpi, antennee, and thorax 

 blackish, finely sprinkled with ochreous-grey; palpi in female 

 long. Abdomen in male blackish, in female grey. Legs blackish ; 

 posterior tibiae ochreous-grey-whitish, in male sometimes blackish, 

 tarsi with ochreous-whitish rings at apex of joints. Forewings 



