432 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



5. JPalph. tlialamia, n. sp. 



Media, alis ant. marglne postico sinuato, dilute roseis, postice 

 griseo-suffusis ; post, dilute flavidis. 



^. 19|^ mm. Head white. Palpi with tuEt of second joint 

 dense, broadly triangular, as long as terminal joint ; white, second 

 joint and tuft externally pale carmine except towards apex of 

 joint. Antennae dark grey, becoming whitish at base. Thorax 

 whitish-grey, anteriorly white, posteriorly pale carmine-pink. 

 Abdomen ochreous- whitish. Anterior tibiae carmine-pink, tarsi 

 dark fuscous ; middle tibiae carmine-pink, tarsi grey- whitish ; 

 j)Osterior tibiae and tarsi whitish. Forewings moderate, costa 

 very strongly arched, apex somewhat produced, acute, hindmargin 

 rather strongly sinuate beneath apex, thence very obliquely 

 rounded ; pale carmine-pink, faintly and irregularly suffused with 

 whitish- grey, and irrorated with darker grey ; costa sufEusedly 

 white towards base, on posterior half slenderly suffused with 

 dark grey ; a broad obscure grey suffusion towards posterior half 

 of inner margin and hindmargin, becoming attenuated towards 

 apex ; apex rather brighter carmine ; an obscure dark grey dot in 

 disc beyond middle : cilia grey- whitish, greyer towards base, costal 

 cilia dark grey. Hindwings with hindmargin faintly sinuate ; 

 whitish-yellowish, cilia whitish. 



A distinct, but not conspicuous species, resembling the preced- 

 ing in the strongly convex costa, and long tuft of palpi, but much 

 smaller, and superficially more like P. eonepliella, from which it 

 differs in the grey posterior suffusion, the absence of any ochre- 

 ous tinge, and the much paler hindwings, as well as structurally. 



I have one fine specimen, taken by Mr. Gr. H. Raynor at 

 Blackheath in the Blue Mountains (3,500 feet) in November. 



6. Palp. eonepJiella, n. sp. 



Minor, alis ant. margine postico sinuato, ochreis, roseo-suff usis, 

 punctis duobus disci minimis maculaque apicis in ciliis nigris ; 

 post, griseis vel flavidis, apice roseo. 



