502 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTEALIAX MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



(^ ? . 18|-21 mm. Head and thorax pinkish-ochreous, face 

 whitish. Palpi dull fuscous-carmine, second joint whitish 

 internally and towards base, terminal joint whitish posteriorly. 

 Antenna) grey, suffused with carmine towards base. Abdomen 

 whitish-grey, slightly ochreous-tinged. Anterior tibiae and tarsi 

 carmine, four apical tarsal joints partially suffused with blackish ; 

 middle tibiae rosy- whitish, tarsi grey, basal joint and apical rings 

 of other joints whitish ; posterior tibiae and tarsi whitish, Eore- 

 wings moderately broad, somewhat dilated posteriorly, costa 

 moderately arched, rather more strongly at base, apex obtuse, 

 hiiidmargin almost straight, oblique ; pale pinkish-ochreous, 

 sometimes rather strongly pinkish ; costa narrowly carmine-pink, 

 lips of scales whitish ; a dark fuscous dot in disc before middle, 

 a second, slightly larger, in disc beyond middle, and a third 

 obliquely beyond first on fold ; sometimes a short obsolete oblique 

 row of three grey dots from costa at 3, and occasionally two or 

 three ether scattered dark scales towards base ; an ill-defined, 

 often almost obsolete, transverse row of irregular dark fuscous 

 dots, from middle of costa very obliquely outwards te disc at c, 

 thence sharply bent and nearly parallel to hindmargin, ending on 

 inner margin before anal angle ; cilia pink, towards tips whitish. 

 Hindwings whitish, posteriorly faintly tinged with ochreous-grey ; 

 cilia whitish, round apex greyish-tinged. 



Nearly allied to II. inidlca^ but smaller and slightly duller, the 

 posterior discal dot not notably enlarged, and the hindwings 

 posteriorly tinged with greyish instead of rosy. 



Common at Sydney and Mittagong (2,000 feet), New South 

 Wales, and at Launceston, Tasmania, in December, January, 

 March, and April. 



64. Ho])!, costimacula, u. sjd. 



Media, alis ant. saturate ochreo-carneis, puuctis disci tribus 

 serieque punctorum marginis postici nigris, strigis tribus 



