486 DESCEIPTIOXS OF ArSTRALlA:^ MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



with grey: cilia light pink, mixed with whitish-grey. Hiudwings 

 and cilia yellowish- whitish. 



A singular and very elegant insect. 



Three specimens taken on a fence near Sydney in September, 

 during a high wind. 



50. JEucli. metallota, n. sp. 



Major, alls ant. rufis, albo-sparsis, margine costali dilute roseo, 

 maculis disci duabus flavis, tertia dorsi ad basim, signorum serie 

 triangularium ante marginem ^^osticum, quattuor etiam sub costa 

 niveis ; post, flavis. 



$ . 29 mm. Head whitish, mixed on crown with dark reddish- 

 fuscous. Palpi whitish, second joint with a rather suffused dark 

 reddish-fuscous subapical band. Antennse light fuscous. Thorax 

 ochreous-whitish, on back and posteriorly reddish-fuscous mixed 

 with whitish. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Anterior legs deep 

 carmine, tarsi with suffused whitish rings at apex of joints ; 

 middle and posterior legs ochreous-whitish, middle tarsi slightly 

 carmine- tinged. Eorewings moderate, costa moderately arched, 

 more strongly at base, apex obtuse, hindmargin straight, slightly 

 oblique; light reddish-fuscous, coarsely irrorated with dark 

 fuscous and white scales, the dark scales predominating towards 

 costal half and base ; extreme costal edge suffused with pale 

 crimson, most distinctly near base ; veins slenderly and irregularly 

 lined with w^hite ; two very small whitish spots on costa near base ; 

 a small rectangular clear white spot on inner margin at base ; a 

 small square white spot in disc about i, anterior and posterior 

 edges somewhat excavated ; between its posterior edge and costa 

 rather before middle are three very small roundish white spots, 

 arranged in an outwardly curved line ; an obsolete semi-oval 

 patch on inner margin from before middle to | is obscurely 

 suffused with whitish, mixed with light reddish-fuscous ; a white 

 dot on fold somewhat before middle of wing ; a small roundish 



