544 DESCEIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTEEA, 



grey above. Forewings elongate, not dilated, costa gentl}'- arched, 

 apex round-pointed, hindmargin extremely oblique, slightly- 

 rounded ; white, irregularly mixed with light fuscous-grey ; a 

 short linear longitudinal blackish mark at base beneath costa ; a 

 narrow central longitudinal blackish streak almost from base to 

 apex, beneath suffusedly fuscous-margined, more or less distinctly 

 broken and interrupted at ^ and f , the central interrupted portion 

 tending to terminate in an incompletely defined ocellus at each 

 extremity ; cilia whitish, tips mixed with fuscous, basal half 

 more or less distinctly chequered with ill-defined dark fuscous 

 spots. Hindwings rather light grey ; cilia grey-whitish, with an 

 indistinct grey line near base. 



Differs from all others in the central interrupted blackish streak. 



One specimen taken at S^^dney in November ; a second received 

 from Mr. G. H. Eaynor, taken near Melbourne. 



104. Eul. siccella, Walk. 



{Gelechia stccella, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 6i3.) 



Media, alis ant. dilute griseis, nigro-conspersis, punctis dis c 

 tribus, serie punctorum postica angulata alteraque marginis 

 postici nigris ; post, griseis. 



^ $ . 18-20 mm. Head and thorax fuscous-grey. Palpi 

 whitish, apical half of second segment blackish except a narrow 

 aj)ical ring, terminal joint blackish anteriorly. Antennae grey- 

 whitish, sometimes distinctly annulated with grey. Abdomen 

 whitish-gre}/, anal tuft ochreous- whitish. Anterior and middle 

 legs dark fuscous-grey ; posterior legs ochreous- whitish. Fore- 

 wings elongate, not dilated, costa gently arched, more strongly 

 near base, apex blunt-pointed, hindmargin very oblique, slightly 

 rounded ; very light grey, coarsely and irregularly irrorated with 

 blackish ; a very small blackish spot in disc before middle, a 

 second, larger and more conspicuous, in disc beyond middle, and 

 a third on fold slightly beyond first ; sometimes a fourth between 



