430 DESCRIPTION'S OF AUSTEALIiN MICEO-LEPIDOPTEEA, 



^ ? . 24-28 mm. Head deep oclireous-yellow, face carmine- 

 tinged. Palpi with tuft of second joint dense, porrected, rather 

 longer than terminal joint ; second joint and tuft deep orange- 

 carmine, becoming yellow internally, whitish above ; terminal 

 joint blackish-grey in front, whitish behind. Antennae whitish, 

 suffusedly ringed with fuscous-grey. Thorax orange-carmine, 

 yellower posteriorly. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Anterior and 

 middle tibiae and tarsi dark fuscous, beneath ochreous-whitish 

 tinged with carmine ; posterior tibiae and tarsi ochreous-whitish, 

 beneath carmine-tinged and irrorated with grey. Forewings 

 broad, costa strongly and evenly arched, apex acute, not produced, 

 hindmargin slightly sinuate, obliquely rounded ; uniform bright 

 deep yellow ; extreme costal edge blackish- grey from base to ^, 

 thence to apex whitish-yellow ; a tolerably well-defined triangular 

 pale carmine-pink patch extending along costa from near base to 

 f, in middle reaching nearly half across wing, its lower edge 

 parallel to inner-margin, and its posterior edge parallel to hind- 

 margin : cilia glossy carmine-pink, darkest at apex, costal cilia 

 pale yellow, tips of apical cilia dark grey. Hindwin<j:s elongate- 

 ovate, hindmargin rounded ; yellow- whitish, apex slightly more 

 yellowish ; cilia yellow- whitish, faintly carmine- tinged. 



E-eadily known by the clear deep yellow forewings and well- 

 defined rosy costal patch. 



Taken not uncommonly at Blackheath on the Blue Mountains 

 (3,500 feet), and also occasionally near Sydney, in October and 

 November. 



Walker described a specimen of this species as var. B. of Falp. 

 aurigena (=P. rectioreJlaJ. 



4. Pal^. rectiorellay Walk. 



{Falparia rectiorella. Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat. 775 ; Falparia 

 aurif/ena, ibid. 775 ; Palparia confectella, ibid. 776.) 



Magna, alis ant. margine postico sinuato, dilute flavidis, leviter 

 roseo-suffusis ; post, albidis, margine postico anguste roseo. 



