454 DESCEIPTIOK^S OF AUSTRALIAN MICEO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



perpendicularly below second, all very ill-defined and sometimes 

 obsolete ; a rosy suffusion along hindmargin from near anal angle 

 to apex : cilia dark grey, on apical half of hindmargin carmine- 

 tinged. Hindwings with hindmargin distinctly sinuate ; dull 

 light ochreoufe-yellow, apex suffused wdth fuscous-grey ; cilia 

 fuscous-grey, towards anal angle becoming whitish-yellow. 



A distinct species, specially characterised by the curious flap 

 of scales towards inner-margin, apparently an abnormal develop- 

 ment of the usual slight protuberance ; it is very noticeable when 

 the wings are closed. 



Common at Sydney and Parramatta in October and November, 

 evidently attached to Leptospermum ; it is very sluggish, and 

 when beaten out, usually fall to the ground. 



23. Eochr. pulverulenta, n. sp. 



Media, alis ant. ochreo-griseis, antice leviter roseo-suffusis, 

 vitta dorsi fusca, punctis disci tribus obscuris saturatioribus, 

 ciliorum basi saturate grisea, apice albo ; post, griseis ; capite 

 albido. 



^ $ . 19-21 mm. Head greyish-whitish, mixed on sides of 

 crown with grey, face w^hite. Palpi white, suffused with pale 

 carmine-pink and externally irrorated with grey. Antennae 

 whitish, towards apex grey. Thorax pale ochreous, shoulders 

 darker. Abdomen grey- whitish. Anterior tibia? and tarsi dark 

 grey ; middle tibiao and tarsi whitish sprinkled with grey ; 

 posterior tibiae and tarsi T\'hite. Porewings moderate, costa 

 moderately arched, apex acute, hindmargin distinctly sinuate, 

 very oblique ; light reddish-fuscous, densely irrorated wdth light 

 ochreous-grey, ground colour clearest towards base of costa ; 

 extreme costal edge sometimes whitish from ^ to apex, often 

 obscured through the grey suffusion ; extreme edge of inner 

 margin very slenderly white throughout ; a dark grey suffused 

 streak, attenuated at both extremities, along inner margin from 



