478 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



Media, alls ant. ochreis, angulum analem versus plus minusve 

 purpureo-suffusis, margine costali roseo, punctis disci tribus, 

 serie punctorum postica transversa, alteraque marginis postici 

 saturate fuscis, interdum partim obsoletis ; post, flavis, margine 

 postico nigro-suffuso. 



(^ ? . 2^1^-25 mm. Head ochreous, face lighter. Palpi light 

 ochreous, more greyish anteriorly, slightly reddish- tinged on sides. 

 Antennae greyish-ochreous. Thorax light greyish-brown- ochreous, 

 posterior extremity sometimes dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish- 

 ochreous, towards base whitish-yellow. Anterior tibiae and tarsi 

 dark fuscous, slightly carmine- tinged, tarsal joints with apical 

 whitish rings ; middle and posterior legs ochreous- whitish, middle 

 tarsi suffused with grey towards base of joints ; all legs ochreous- 

 white beneath. Forewings moderate, costa moderately arched, 

 rather more strongly towards base, apex obtuse, hindmargin 

 almost straight, slightly oblique ; greyish-ochreous, slightly 

 mixed with brownish-ochreous ; costal edge light crimson through- 

 out ; a purplish suffusion, mixed with dark fuscous, forming a 

 cloudy blotch on middle of inner margin, sometimes broadly 

 produced over anal angle and hindmargin to apex as a suffused 

 band ; a dark fuscous dot in disc before middle, and a second 

 obliquely beyond it on fold ; a small dark fuscous spot in disc 

 beyond middle, and a similar more cloudy spot obliquely beyond 

 and beneath it ; a nearly straight row of about six dark fuscous 

 rather crescentic dots from disc at I to inner margin at |, its 

 upper extremity tending to be connected with costa beyond 

 middle by one or two dark scales ; a hindmarginal row of blackish 

 dots ; these rows of dots are sometimes obscured by the hind- 

 marginal suffusion : cilia grey- whitish suffused with light purplish 

 except towards anal angle. Hindwings with hindmargin scarcely 

 sinmate ; light yellow, in male very narrowly, in female more 

 broadly suffused with dark fuscous-grey along hindmargin ; cilia 

 grey, towards base blackish-grey. 



