440 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAX MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



12. Palp, falcifera, n. sp. 



Media, alis aut. angustis, falcatis, dilute griseis, costa roseo- 

 suffasa, fasciis duabus angustis contortis, lineaque plicse, altera 

 disci, tertia apicis nigris, supra cano-marginatis ; post, griseis. 



(^.21 mm. Head whitish, Palpi with tuft of second joint 

 very short, angular, terminal joint short, about half second joint ; 

 second joint and tuft grey, becoming whitish towards base and 

 apex of joint, terminal joint whitish, anterior edge grey. Antennse 

 grey. Thorax grey. Abdomen grey mixed with whitish, beneath 

 carmine-tinged. Anterior tibiae and tarsi whitish ; all coxse 

 crimson-tinged. Forcwings rather narrow, costa moderately 

 arched, apex very strongly produced, acute, hindmargin very 

 oblique, strongly concave ; grey, becoming rather lighter and 

 more ochreous-tinged towards base of inner margin ; costa rather 

 broadly suffused with very pale carmine-pink from i to apex ; a 

 straight rather irregular slender blackish-fuscous streak from base 

 of costa to inner margin at -|, ill-defined beneath, above edged by 

 a suffused slender white streak, which is produced indistinctly 

 to anal angle ; a slender blackish-fuscous streak from costa at \ 

 obliquely outwards, in middle of wing curved sharply inwards and 

 meeting first streak beyond its middle ; from angulation of this 

 streak proceeds a slender blackish-fuscous upwardly convex streak 

 through disc to beyond middle, thence curved abruptly dowu. 

 wards and ending in anal angle, discal portion margined above 

 by a strong clear w^hite streak ; from a little above inner margin 

 at f an irregular blackish-fuscous streak to anal angle, meeting 

 this streak ; midway between the central discal streak and costa 

 is a longitudinal row^ of scattered blackish scales ; from the 

 central discal streak beyond middle of disc proceeds a slender 

 blackish-fuscous line towards costa, bent very obliquely outwards 

 a little below costa, not reaching it, margined posteriorly by a 

 suffused white and very pale carmine-pink streak extending 

 downwards to anal angle ; an irregular suffused blackish-fuscous 

 spot in disc beyond this, connected with middle of hindmargin 



