546 DESCEIPIIONS OF AUSTEALIAN MICEO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



longitudinal mark towards costa in middle ; a crescentic blackish 

 mark in disc at f , its lower extremity emitting a short blackish 

 streak towards base ; a small blackish spot on costa beyond 

 middle ; a transverse row of small ill-defined dark grey spots 

 from costa at f irregularly and obliquely outwards to beneath 

 apex, thence sharply bent and continued very near hindmargin 

 to inner margin before anal angle ; a row of well-defined blackish 

 dots along hindmargin and apical third of costa : cilia whitish, 

 with a dark grey interrupted line. Hindwings pale grey, with 

 dark grey dots on hindmargin on veins ; cilia grey- whitish, with 

 a very indistinct grey line. 



Characterised by the strongly marked irregular partially con- 

 fluent discal strigul?e. 



One specimen at rest on a fence near Sydney in July. 



106. Eul. scopariella, Walk. 

 fCnjptolechia sco^mriella^ Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 765.) 

 Media, alis ant. griseo-albidis, obscure nigro-venosis. strigula 



ad costse basim, annulo disci tenui interrupto, serieque punctorum 



postica angulata nigris ; post, dilute griseis. 



^ $ . 23-25 mm. Head and thorax whitish, mixed with dark 

 fuscous. Palpi with second joint rather roughly haired above 

 towards apex ; dark fuscous, apex of second joint white, base 

 whitish, terminal joint white posteriorly. Antennse whitish. 

 Abdomen grey, anal tuft ochreous-whitish. Anterior and middle 

 legs dark grey, apex of tarsal joints white ; posterior legs whitish. 

 Forewings very elongate, not dilated, costa gently arched, apex 

 round-pointed, hindmargin very oblique, rounded ; whitish, 

 irregularly mixed with light fuscous-grey and dark fuscous ; 

 veins obscurely lined with dark fuscous ; a short linear dark 

 fuscous streak from base beneath costa ; a short linear dark 

 fuscous longitudinal streak in disc before middle, a second above 

 middle, a third longer below middle, and two irregular trans- 

 versely placed dots beyond middle, all nearly confluent to form 



