10S0 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



extremely oblique ; snow-white ; markings bright yellow-ochreous, 

 more or less irrorated with dark fuscous ; two small round generally 

 confluent spots transversly placed in disc before middle, lower 

 slightly anterior ; a rather naiTow fascia from § of costa to 

 | of inner margin, narrowly produced along inner margin to 

 beneath anterior spots, and more broadly along costa to near apex, 

 and connected below middle by a short slender bar with anal angle : 

 cilia ochreous-whitish, suffused with ochreous and sometimes 

 irroi^ated with dark fuscous between apex and anal angle. Hind- 

 wings lanceolate, acute, veins 3 and 4 somewhat remote ; light 

 grey ; cilia very pale greyish-ochreous. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; not uncommon from October to 

 December. 



395. Ocyst. niphodesma, n. sp. 



Parva, alis ant. niveis, costse basi fasciisque duabus rectis fusco- 

 ochreis, saturate fusco-sparsis ; post, dilute griseis. 



£. 12 mm. Head and palpi white, second joint externally 

 fuscous except at apex, terminal joint § of second. Antenna? 

 fuscous, ciliations 3. Thorax white, anterior margin dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs dark fuscous, post, pair whitish- 

 ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa moderately 

 arched, apex acute, hindmargin sinuate, extremely oblique ; snow- 

 white ; markings brownish-ochreous, somewhat irrorated and 

 irregularly margined with dark fuscous ; a small quadrate fuscous 

 spot on base of costa ; a straight moderate fascia from I of costa 

 to before middle of inner margin ; a fascia from before £ of costa 

 to anal angle, moderate on costa, rather broadly dilated beneath ; 

 some dark fuscous scales at apex : cilia white, basal half somewhat 

 suffused with pale ochreous and irregularly irrorated with dark 

 fuscous. Hindwings lanceolate, acute, veins 3 and 4 remote ; 

 light grey ; cilia whitish-grey, ochreous-tinged. 



Duaringa, Queensland ; one specimen received from Mr. G. 

 Barnard. 



