814 DESCRIPTIONS OP AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA 



narrow oblique silvery-white fascia from | of costa to g of inner 

 margin, becoming purplish-leaden at lower extremity; a small 

 subquadrate silvery-white spot on middle of costa ; a pale silvery- 

 grey metallic rather outwardly oblique spot from inner margin at 

 ^, reaching half across wing ; a triangular silvery-white spot on 

 costa at I, and a similar spot on anal angle, sometimes meeting : 

 cilia dark fuscous, on costal spot white. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Larva rather elongate, somewhat tapering posteriorly ; head 

 amber ; second segment black, anterior mai^gin white ; third to 

 twelfth segments chocolate, anterior margin of each broadly clear 

 white, posterior margin narrowly ochreous ; anal shield black. 

 Feeds on Acacia discolor, uniting the leaflets into a tube along 

 midrib of leaf, in February. Pupa free, in a chamber within the 

 tube. I have frequently met with this larva, but never on any 

 other species of Acacia. 



Sydney, New South Wales, in September, January, and March ; 

 rather common. 



495. Macr. rhodospila, n. sp. 



Parva, alis ant. nigriscentibus, fascia ad basim obscura plumbea, 

 altera antica angusta obliqua nivea subtus grisescente, macula costee 

 media nivea altera postica tertiaque anguli analis albido-roseis, 

 macula dorsi postica transversa plumbea ; post, griseis ; capite 

 ochreo. 



^. 12 mm. Head yellow-ochreous, face ochreous-whitish. Palpi 

 whitish-ochreous, terminal joint black except anterior edge. 

 Antennai dark fuscous, obscurely spotted with whitish. Thorax 

 dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Legs blackish, banded with 

 white. Foi-e wings elongate-lanceolate ; blackish ; a very obscure 

 oblique leaden-grey fascia very near base; a narrow oblique 

 silvery- white fascia from | of costa to I of inner margin, becoming 

 leaden-grey at lower extremity ; a small subquadrate silvery-white 

 spot on middle of costa ; a leaden-grey metallic outwardly oblique 

 spot from inner margin at f , reaching half across wing ; a 

 triangular rosy- white spot on costa at I, and a similar spot on anal 

 angle, opposite but not meeting : cilia dark fuscous, on costal spot 

 rosy-white. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



